A Discursividade da identidade cis: cartografias sobre a produção da natureza

Abstract

It was only in the 1990s that people whose sexual identity was understood as normal by the biomedical discourse and society as a whole finally began being addressed by a term: cisgender. Before that, however, subjects interpreted as abnormal had already been named: hermaphrodite, intersex, person with disorder of sexual development and transsexual are some of the terms used in biomedicine to identify them. That being said, it follows the hypothesis that the normal can only exist because of the marginalisation and/or denial of other anormalised existences. Therefore, starting with a bibliographic review of genealogies about sexual binarism, articulating them to productions on gender from the perspective of queer theory, the present work aims to analyse the alleged pre-discursivity of the cis identity, revealing it as a self-attributed characteristic of an ontological order which is, given scientific data discovered within the biomedical discourse itself, epistemologically unsustainable. Thus, it is concluded that we live contemporaneously in a somatopolitical era in which the technologies of (re)production of sex are used with the goal of reinscribing bodies in the dimorphic logic of sexual binarism, which leads to proposals with the objective to decolonise the biomedical discourse, making its hospitality unconditional to such a point in which it allows possibility of existence to lives which are currently made impossible.