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Sedgwick and Gill-Peterson: "How to Bring Your Kids Up" - Coggle…
Sedgwick and Gill-Peterson: "How to Bring Your Kids Up"
What's the problem with "the future" and "futurity"?
how do we justify building a future for the children when children's choices are not centered? "trans children need to have access to an enfranchised voice" (198)
the medical and therapy places: pg 162 for Sedgwick, hedging the truths about childhood sexuality and development to protect straightness/heteronormativity
where does girlhood go in larger patriarchal crises about sexuality?
what is a "trans childhood" with "situated knowledge" (198) - the education and knowledge production is coming from the children; taking seriously and centering epistemologies developed by and from trans children.
takeaway: kids have agency and ways of knowing
AGENCY, YO!
bodyminds change over time
What can legal, medical, economic, and social conditions of childhood/young adulthood teach us about sex, gender, and power?
we have a "political infantilization" of trans children
Gill-Peterson seems to point to institutionality and visibility that creates an opportunity for trans backlashes (195-6)
an insistence on modernity and the nowness of trans seems to disavow trans pasts and trans activists (Hi, Marsha P. Johnson and Silvia Rivera);
The Well of Loneliness
and Radclyffe Hall
there are myths (hi, Ovid) that show a history of gender variance and gender nonconformity
it also creates the idea of modern "solutions" to "fixing" trans lives in the present: bills, legal structures,
the nowness politicizes it
reaffirms an us v them problem and generational divides
uses as a red herring/distraction
uh oh, gender binaries are products of colonial violence and occupation
educational spaces and "indoctrination"
the dangerous conflation of sex, gender performance, and desires
scientific and biological discourses
the medical is deeply informed by the social;
intersex and trans lives of color interrupt white, Western medicalization so thoroughly
also reaffirms a transmedicalism that requires 1) legible gender in cis frameworks and 2) you must "suffer" from dysphoria
"plasticity":
the idea of "basic biology" is super messy (Anne Fausto-Sterling)
What's important about having a past?