Transsexual metamorphosis as a renaissance ; La métamorphose transsexuelle comme renaissance
Communication presented to international meetings "The body and law. From the beginning to the end of life" AIECI. Marseille 23-24 September 2005. The metaphor of the renaissance is sometimes used to refer to transsexualisation. Based on this qualification, the article explores the transition and reflects its conceptualisation in our society. The description of the transsexual pathway thus reveals that the claim for a sex registration other than that received at birth is conceived as a significant change of identity, as it is envisaged as the arrival of a new person in the world. That change can, moreover, be achieved only gradually in the context of a socially organised procedure and only if it is used as a therapeutic act complying with sex standards. Wishing and undertaking a change in the gender of the summons is therefore a commitment to seek relief from a state of disorder of identity, recognition of sex norms and reference to them in order to be able to transform one's body; it is a chance to develop in a medical and judicial pathway that makes time a condition for the completion and success of the company. ; The metaphor of rebirth is sometimes used to evoke the transsexual transition. From this qualification, the article investigates the transition and reports on its conceptualization in our society. The description of the transsexual process reveals that the claim of belonging to an ascribed gender other than the one received at birth, is conceived as a consequent identity change: a new being comes into the world. Moreover, this change can be only realized in the framework of a gradually medical and legal protocol which respects carefully gender norms. In consequence to begin a transsexual transition means translating the desire of transformation in terms of identity trouble and asking for its treatment; signifies testifying to recognize the gender norms and refering to them for the body transformation; and also means engaging in a medical and legal journey which considers temporality as the condition ...