Transgender citizenship in Lebanon: Navigating socio-legal and medical constructions of gender in Lebanon's judicial order and healthcare system

这个博士项目将从民族学和历史上调查法律行政，医疗和社会宗教结构的性别后，黎巴嫩跨性别个人在追求医疗和法律的性别校正的法律的和医疗政策景观的影响。将考虑这些跨性别自我认知的行政流程导航的影响，以及跨性别个人通过与司法和医疗保健系统的互动影响政策的机构。这个项目的一个特别重点将是分析的背景下，在最近的转变，在解释个人地位法的上诉法院法官肯定的权利，变性人自我认同，删除以前的外科手术的先决条件，以性别认同recognization.Research Questions：-如何做性别的法律行政，医疗和社会宗教建设在黎巴嫩形状影响变性人的法律的和医疗政策？-跨性别者与黎巴嫩司法秩序的互动如何影响对性别焦虑的生物伦理共识的网络化？这些互动如何影响自我认知？本研究的方法论是由政策人类学，它采取政策作为一种手段来理解国家与公民的关系。继海岸和赖特，这个项目将接近政策作为一个"文化文本"，理解政策设计可以阐明更广泛的社会问题，由于政策与社会"意义域"的相互构成关系。因此，黎巴嫩的法律的和医疗保健政策将被视为一个出发点，考虑社会宗教的性别理解，和性别肯定的法律的和medical procedures. This study will also draw upon the methods of law to consider the "disputing process" by which transgender individuals negotiate amendments to their personal status records through the judicial system.我将采用纳德的法律使用者理论，从“法律的方向主要取决于人们能够和有动机使用法律做什么”的假设出发，从而将跨性别请愿者的机构集中在影响法律的方向上，并通过他们与国家的互动来制定政策。在考虑跨性别自我认知的歧视性国家行政程序的影响，方法的一些方面将从偏见的社会心理学，巴雷托和Ellemers所描述的。

This doctoral project will ethnographically and historically investigate the influence of legal-administrative, medical and socio-religious constructions of gender upon the legal and medical policy landscapes traversed by Lebanese transgender individuals in pursuit of medical treatment and legal gender emendation. The impact of navigating these administrative processes on transgender self-cognition will be considered, as well as the agency of transgender individuals in influencing policy through interactions with the judicial and healthcare systems. A particular focus of this project will be an analysis of the context surrounding recent shifts in the interpretation of personal status law by Court of Appeal judges to affirm the right of transgender individuals to self-identity, removing a previous surgical prerequisite to gender identity recognition.Research Questions:- How do legal-administrative, medical and socio-religious constructions of gender in Lebanon shape legal and medical policy affecting transgender individuals?- How do the interactions of transgender individuals with the Lebanese judicial order affect the netgotiation of bioethical consensus on gender dysphoria? How do these interactions affect self-cognition?The methodological approach of this study is informed by the anthropology of policy, which takes policy as a means to understand state-citizen relationships. Following Shore and Wright, this project will approach policy as a 'cultural text', understanding that policy design may elucidate broader societal questions due to the mutually-constitutive relationship of policy with social 'domains of meaning'. Thus, Lebanese legal and healthcare policy will be taken as a starting point to consider socio-religious understandings of gender, and gender-affirming legal and medical procedures.This study will also draw upon the methods of the anthropology of law to consider the 'disputing process' by which transgender individuals negotiate amendments to their personal status records through the judicial system. I will adopt Nader's user theory of law, embarking from the assumption that 'the direction of law depends mainly on what people are enabled and motivated to use the law to do,' thus centring the agency of transgender petitioners in influencing the direction of law- and policymaking through their interactions with the state. In considering the effect of engagement with discriminatory state administrative procedures on transgender self-cognition, some aspects of methodology will be drawn from the social psychology of prejudice, as described by Barreto and Ellemers.