Sexuality in the formation of contemporary notions of transgender

该项目探讨了自20世纪90年代以来美国“跨性别者”的概念及其与“性”观念的相互作用，这一时期虽然没有太多的历史研究，但对于理解当代跨性别政治至关重要。该项目聚焦于这一时期跨性别主体形象的两个变化，即跨性别儿童的上升形象和异装癖者的消失形象。它研究了各种各样的、通常未被充分研究的资料，比如杂志、育儿书籍和年度跨性别社区活动《幻想曲》（Fantasia Fair）的档案，使用谱系学的方法来探索在建立当今使用的跨性别者类别时，对性的理解是如何被采纳的。这个项目旨在通过考虑性在该领域的地位来填补跨性别研究的空白。这样做的目的还在于将对“性”的思考扩展到对身份的关注之外。

This project explores notions of 'transgender' and their interaction with ideas around 'sexuality' in the US since the 1990s, a period which, while not studied much historically, is crucial for understanding contemporary politics of transness. The project focuses on two changes in dominant figurations of transness in this time, the ascendant figure of the transgender child and the disappearing figure of the transvestite. It examines diverse, often understudied sources such as zines, parenting books and the archives of the annual transgender community event Fantasia Fair using a genealogical approach to explore how understandings of sexuality are taken up in the establishment of the category of transgender in use today. This project aims to fill a gap in trans studies by considering the status of sexuality in the field. In so doing it also aims to expand thinking about "sexuality" beyond a focus on identity.