Categories in suspense. Re-readings of the sexological, juridical and religious discourses around the “sex change” in the sixties in Chile
This article discusses a series of sexological, legal and religious texts circulated in the 1960s by the Chilean Society of Anthropological Sexology in order to understand how ‘sex change’ became visible and enunciable in the Chilean context. This archive is approached from the analytical tools of b...
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I28-R259-article-176302025-12-04T21:10:30Z Categories in suspense. Re-readings of the sexological, juridical and religious discourses around the “sex change” in the sixties in Chile Categorías en Suspenso. Relecturas de los discursos médicos, jurídicos y religiosos en torno al “cambio de sexo” en los años sesenta en Chile Carvajal, Fernanda sexology “sex change” legal discourses sexual citizenship sexología “cambio de sexo” biopolítica ciudadanías sexuales This article discusses a series of sexological, legal and religious texts circulated in the 1960s by the Chilean Society of Anthropological Sexology in order to understand how ‘sex change’ became visible and enunciable in the Chilean context. This archive is approached from the analytical tools of biopolitical theory, trans* and queer studies, in order to show how the process of unblocking the medical notion of transsexuality can be regarded as one of the turning points that marked the passage from a vision of sexuality centered on a biomedical framework to one centered on its legal aspects, on consent and the notion of citizenship. The purpose of this approach is to propose a critical reading the cisexual framework that these discourses mobilized, but also to bring to the fore the ways in which they proved instrumental in opening up a space of intelligibility for trans lives. The re-reading of these historical texts, which so far have received scant attention in academic analysis, seeks to offer a situated study that allows us to historicize and complexify the ways we envisage the relationship of the trans* population with state institutions in Chile. Finally, this text also intends to contribute to the questioning and denaturalizing of some of the dichotomies that seem to pervade the current discussions around gender and sexuality. El presente artículo aborda una serie de textos sexológicos, jurídicos y religiosos, puestos a circular en la década de los sesenta por la Sociedad Chilena de Sexología Antropológica para comprender cómo el “cambio de sexo” se volvió inteligible y enunciable en el contexto chileno. Estos textos, son abordados a partir de las herramientas analíticas de la teoría biopolítica y los estudios trans*, para comprender cómo el proceso de creación de la noción médica de transexualidad puede ser visto como uno de los puntos de inflexión que marcaron el pasaje desde un régimen de la sexualidad centrado en una matriz biomédica hacia uno centrado en lo jurídico, el consentimiento y la noción de ciudadanía. Se trata de leer críticamente la matriz cisexual que estos discursos movilizan, pero también, de atender a los modos en que comenzaron a abrir un espacio de inteligibilidad para las vidas travesti-trans*. En estasección se incluye uno de dichos textos, del Dr. Osvaldo Quijada. La relectura de estos textos históricos, que han recibido aún poca atención de parte del análisis académico, busca ofrecer una lectura situada que permita historizar y complejizar los modos en que comprendemos la relación de la población travesti-trans* con las instituciones y el Estado en Chile. Finalmente, este texto se propone también contribuir a interrogar y desnaturalizar algunas de los supuestos y categorías que parecen atravesar las discusiones del presente en torno al género y la sexualidad. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2025-12-04 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/mora/article/view/17630 10.34096/mora.n31.17630 Mora; Vol. 1 Núm. 31 1853-001X 0328-8773 spa https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/mora/article/view/17630/15457 Derechos de autor 2025 Fernanda Carvajal |
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This article discusses a series of sexological, legal and religious texts circulated in the 1960s by the Chilean Society of Anthropological Sexology in order to understand how ‘sex change’ became visible and enunciable in the Chilean context. This archive is approached from the analytical tools of biopolitical theory, trans* and queer studies, in order to show how the process of unblocking the medical notion of transsexuality can be regarded as one of the turning points that marked the passage from a vision of sexuality centered on a biomedical framework to one centered on its legal aspects, on consent and the notion of citizenship. The purpose of this approach is to propose a critical reading the cisexual framework that these discourses mobilized, but also to bring to the fore the ways in which they proved instrumental in opening up a space of intelligibility for trans lives. The re-reading of these historical texts, which so far have received scant attention in academic analysis, seeks to offer a situated study that allows us to historicize and complexify the ways we envisage the relationship of the trans* population with state institutions in Chile. Finally, this text also intends to contribute to the questioning and denaturalizing of some of the dichotomies that seem to pervade the current discussions around gender and sexuality. |
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