Trans Networking in the European Vortex: Between Advocacy and Grassroots Politics

Balzer, Carsten; Hutta, Jan Simon

doi:10.1057/9781137391766_8

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“…Scholarship on the role of trans mobilisation and organising is still rare. Some of the scholarship has a strong focus on transnational (European) organising, and incorporates attention for trans* mobilizing within a focus on gay and lesbian or queer politics (Ayoub & Paternotte, 2014;Balzer & Hutta, 2014;Bilić, 2016;van der Vleuten, 2014). Recently, clashes between trans organisations and feminist ones have been addressed explicitly (Pearce et al, 2020).…”

Section: The Potential and Challenges Of Organising And Mobilisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trans* Politics: Current Challenges and Contestations Regarding Bodies, Recognition, and Trans* Organising

Verloo

Vleuten

2020

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This thematic issue analyses trans* politics, and the problems and policies articulated by societal, political and legal actors in national and international contexts in Europe and Latin America. Trans* issues are at the heart of politics concerning sex and gender, because the sex binary ordering is producing the categories, identities, and related social relationships around which gender inequalities are constructed. Scholarship on trans* politics promises to bring more fundamental knowledge about how the gender binary organisation of our societies is (dis)functional, and is therefore relevant and beneficial for all gender and politics scholarship. Contestations around trans* issues continue developing, between state and non-state actors, transgender people and medical professionals, and also among and between social movements. This thematic issue is our contribution to dimensions of trans* politics that revolve around the issue of sexed and gendered bodies (the making and unmaking of “deviant” bodies, non-binary language about bodies, and voice given in bodily re/assignments), the limits of recognition (undermining of trans* agency, persistent binary thinking, and disconnect with material dimensions of gender justice), and the potential of trans* movements (processes and practices through which political claims are generated in the movement, a more forward looking and pro-active perspective on the possibility of alliances between the feminist and the trans* projects, and between the trans* project and the disability project, and alliances of movement actors with institutional power holders such as international courts).

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Section: The Potential and Challenges Of Organising And Mobilisationmentioning

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Trans* Politics: Current Challenges and Contestations Regarding Bodies, Recognition, and Trans* Organising

Verloo

Vleuten

2020

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“…Importantly, it helped mainstream sexual orientation as part of official EU social policy (Beger 2004, 23). Since then, gender identity has become another ground for European action (Balzer and Hutta 2014), and the European mandate has been extended beyond anti-discrimination policy to include policy areas such as asylum (Hamila forthcoming) highlighted the long road ahead, rhetorically shaming the 20 states without any provisions in 2017. He called on them "to enact legislation to create -at the very leastregistered partnerships that ensure that privileges, obligations or benefits available to married or registered different-sex partners are equally available to same-sex partners" (Dittrich 2017).…”

Section: Europe As An Institutional Entitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is illustrated, for instance, by the centrality of coming out as a compulsory transformative experience to becoming a queer subject. In many dimensions of such universalism, women's voices were long absent and trans* groups only became vocal in recent years after tensions with gay and lesbian groups (Balzer and Hutta 2014). Bisexual activism remains weak (Monro 2015)…”

Section: Europe As An Activist Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Europe and LGBT Rights

Ayoub

Paternotte

2019

The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics

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Europe matters to contemporary LGBTQ politics. This chapter maps out various political articulations connecting Europe and LGBT rights today, arguing that Europe has played a central role in much of the LGBTQ movement’s history but that this relationship is complex and multifaceted depending on the vast space of what “Europe” means to many different actors. In other words, Europe has been imagined and unimagined as LGBTQ-friendly by various actors and for various purposes. In making this argument the chapter presents “Europe” from four different angles, exploring the association between the continent and “LGBT rights” in each: Europe as an institutional entity, Europe as an activist project, Europe as exclusionary, and Europe as a threat. It takes a position on how the relationship is defined in each section, highlighting both the opportunity and risk that entails for LGBT rights and people on the continent. In doing so, the chapter highlights the ways European states and institutions have gradually endorsed some activist goals, embedding LGBT rights into the version of Europe understood as an institutional entity. Problematically, however, it shows that this project also generates different forms of exclusion. Moreover, while many actors articulate an idea of Europe as associated with LGBT rights, these actors also compete to define the nature and the content of this association. Europe as an idea is thus multifaceted in its relation to LGBTQ politics, depending on the angle from which it is viewed.

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“…The dynamics in the diffusion of trans norms have only recently started to be examined as an exclusive object, separate from the collective LGBT domain (Balzer & Hutta, 2014). Although trans issues might intersect with some LGB issues, there are specific differences between them.…”

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From Medical to Human-Rights Norms: Examining the Evolution of Trans Norms in the Netherlands

Soto-Lafontaine

2020

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Examining the dynamics underpinning the evolution of trans norms in the Netherlands, from their emergence there in 1952 up until 2019, this article traces their development through four historical phases, each marked by notable milestones and supported by different sets of frames, actors, and norm-change mechanisms. My analysis shows that the normative profile of trans issues in the Netherlands has long been ruled by medical frames, but the last decades have also witnessed the emergence and establishment of a new set of frames rooted in human-rights discourses. By tracing the trajectory of trans norms in the Netherlands and examining the mechanisms underlying the emergence and changes of frames, this article contributes to the theoretical body of studies on norm diffusion by introducing the role of hybrid entrepreneurs, the dynamic co-assembling of medical and legal domains and the self-lead trans emancipation as a social entrepreneurial strategy.

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Trans Networking in the European Vortex: Between Advocacy and Grassroots Politics

Cited by 8 publications

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Trans* Politics: Current Challenges and Contestations Regarding Bodies, Recognition, and Trans* Organising

Trans* Politics: Current Challenges and Contestations Regarding Bodies, Recognition, and Trans* Organising

Europe and LGBT Rights

From Medical to Human-Rights Norms: Examining the Evolution of Trans Norms in the Netherlands

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