这个是翻译自论文Zucker, Kenneth J. (2019). Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: Reflections on Some Contemporary Clinical and Research Issues. Archives of Sexual Behavior, (), -.doi:10.1007/s10508-019-01518-8的
个人感觉 cdts(至少是其中的 mtf)确实理应属于跨性别社群中的一员,但因为年龄代差、阶级分化以及对性工作者的污名化等种种因素——这些因素的确部分是当下社会和政治环境造成的,但很多时候和部分跨性别者试图在公众面前塑造自身为「三好跨」,诉诸某种中产阶级对「正常生活」的想象密切相关——导致她们在社群内基本上是很边缘化的。毕竟,如果我们的诉求仅是可见度(visibility),那就要做好准备这种诉求很大程度上受政治审美(aesthetics)的制约,而后者与霸权性的叙事和道德观念密切相关。引一下 Jules Gill-Peterson 之前在一篇叫 Gay For History 的文章里发表的观点(虽然这个讲的是美国语境,但我觉得和咱目前的一些情景和议题也有关):
The ends of feminism are not formal and representational; therefore, correctly defining womanhood to include trans women is not its aim;
Trans femininity is not a crisis of definition, nor valuable insofar as it expresses an internal gender identity that can be owned like private property; therefore, the goal of trans feminist politics cannot be “gender self-determination” where “self-determination” is an analogy to political self-determination, which is a collective rather than an individual, property-bearing process. (As any post-colonialist couldtell you, when a collectivity self-determines, it hardly or inevitably leads to harmony and identity.)
If not individual gender self-determination and formal inclusion within the category womanhood, trans feminism might take a historical point of view and think about how trans femmes know something about what we could call the “collective ownership of the means of gender’s production” within larger anti-capitalist, anti-statist struggles.
If trans femininity is not a sexological category that fusses over being or not being a narrow racialized definition of woman, we might propose that, historically speaking, trans femininity is a racialized and criminalized labor category. Trans femmes emerge, antagonize, and are targeted through the lens of sex work above all, not just in the metropoles of Europe or North America, but globally, beginning in the nineteenth century, through colonial projects racializing sex work and “native custom” through one fell swoop, as in the case of anti-prostitution campaigns in India that radically disenfranchised Hijras. Trans femininity is a criminalized, pathologized, but also made a central lumpen proletarian category of labor that, during much of the twentieth century, collects around the figure of the street queen: the feminized public sex worker and nightlife service economy worker. Trans femmes form alternate household units with mothers and kinship systems like the Black and brown ballroom worlds in large American cities, not as idealized or parodic citations of hetero gender norms, but as actual labor and kinship systems for surviving in a largely informal economy. Trans femininity is a central category of social reproduction, one whose contradictions are evident in the truism that that everyone’s husband is fucking us, or watching us in porn, while their wives are joining moral crusades to eradicate us.
Suddenly, trans feminism is no longer a problem defined by exclusion or inclusion; instead, trans feminism is based in a historical materialist analysis of sex work, criminalization, and the social reproductive labor of feminized subjects whose centrality to modern urban space in metropoles, settler colonies, and global south colonies and postcolonies offers a rich political grammar for building coalitional trans politics against exploitation and immiseration.