Paper short abstract:

The trans depathologization movement disputes certain psychiatric diagnoses that regulate the lives of trans individuals. Trans trajectories, from a dialectical and relational perspective, tension various social and political spheres, enabling gender self-determination.

Paper long abstract:

It is impossible to confine an individual within a specific social category from which to analyze their actions or experiences, based on delimited and homogeneous categories such as man,

woman, trans, cis, or homosexual. Nor is a purely subjective or individual approach to life trajectories viable. This sociological perspective recognizes individuals as social agents who

generate new subjective positions in constant change and openness within diverse social contexts. Any attempt to search for a pre-established gender identity; is to detach the

individual from the social world, denying their condition as a social agent and the objective conditions that regulate them. The sex-gender system is in crisis, giving rise to subjectivities related to reflective capacity and social experiences. However, these new subjectivities, unlike existing ones, still lack social legitimacy. The further the individual is from legitimization, the longer and more complex their process of subjectivation will be. This analysis seeks to address the life trajectories of trans individuals from a different perspective. Gender/sex normativity exercises a biopolitics that produces and regulates social worlds, bodies, and individuals,

excluding, violating, medicalizing, pathologizing, and denying those who transit its borders.