トランスジェンダーのパッシング実践と社会学的説明の齟齬

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  • 鶴田 幸恵
    東京都立大学大学院社会科学研究科博士課程

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  • The Discrepancy between Passing Practice of Transgenders and Sociological Explanations
  • トランスジェンダーのパッシング実践と社会学的説明の齟齬--カテゴリーの一瞥による判断と帰納的判断
  • トランスジェンダー ノ パッシング ジッセン ト シャカイガクテキ セツメイ ノ ソゴ カテゴリー ノ イチベツ ニ ヨル ハンダン ト キノウテキ ハンダン
  • カテゴリーの一瞥による判断と帰納的判断
  • Categorization at a Glance and from lnductive Judgment

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The past studies on passing practice have accounted for the interaction about one's appearance and recognition of it. But these studies started their argument from the point that one already has a "normal appearance," and did not account for how it is accomplished that one has a "normal appearance" in the viewer's recognition.<br>　The aim of this article is to argue that such a way of accounting of past studies can not adequately account for passing practices of transgenders who intend to accomplish being a "normal natural female," using the transcript data from interviews of Male-to-Female transgenders, because accomplishing that appearance is the most important problem for them.<br>　For this, I focus on "viewing" as an action. First, I discuss the logic used in Goffman's Stigma and Garfinkel's famous paper on "Agnes," who is transgender. Through this work, it is found that the person who is passing is categorized in two ways. One is "categorization at a glance" which is an immediate and spontaneous practice. The other is "categorization from inductive judgment," which is conscious judgment by clues in one's appearance.<br>　Second, it is found from data that the person who is passing refer to "categorization from inductive judgment" to accomplish being categorized as "normal" with "categorization at a glance." Third, it is only when the question for instance, "Is that person is male or female?" is relevant that "categorization from inductive judgment" usually arises. So, for transgenders, to be categorized with the way of "categorization from inductive judgment" is to fail passing. This means that accounting for achievement or failure in passing must distinguish two ways of categorization.<br>　Through that consideration, I conclude that being categorized as a "normal natural female" with the way of "categorization at a glance" is necessary for transgenders to pass as normal. That is, on the one hand, the first step to passing, and on the other hand, the endless practice for transgender people.

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  • ソシオロジ

    ソシオロジ 49 (2), 21-36,157, 2004

    社会学研究会

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