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Publication details [#66344]

Borba, Rodrigo. 2019. The interactional making of a “true transsexual”: Language and (dis)identification in trans-specific healthcare. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2019 (256) : 21–56.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
gender | identity negotiation | language | language use | medical conversation | mental faculty
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

Can transsexual subjects speak in their own terms? This paper explores how knowledge systems that pathologise transsexuality as a mental disorder get gradually embodied (and spoken) in consultations at a Brazilian gender identity clinic.