'Trans' Trouble: Trans-Sexuality and the End of Gender

Abstract

Investigates the tensions between mainstream moral issues & trans-sexual & trans-gender identities to argue that "trans" trouble is actually a profound critique of discourse that naturalizes commonplace concepts constructed about humans or ethical subjects. This critique fulfills the radical deconstruction potential that post-structuralist theorization has articulated with respect to individual identity, reproduction, sex, sexualit/ies, & gender. The theory & practice of trans-sexuality marks an important stage in every definition of the human person, & therefore the ethical subject. Although gender trouble is here to stay, philosophical conceptualizations of the human subject must now embrace conceptions of the "other" in new & complex ways. References. J. Harwell