What Is at Stake in the Recognition of Non-Normative Identities?

The deconstruction of the binary sex-gender system that sustains modern western states demands the deconstruction of its dichotomies and their excluding effects on non-normative identities. This demands in turn that gender self-determination be recognised as a right. In Spain this right has been gi...

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Main Author: Blanca Rodríguez Ruiz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Jaén 2022-06-01
Series:Age of Human Rights Journal
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Online Access:https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/TAHRJ/article/view/7021
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Summary:The deconstruction of the binary sex-gender system that sustains modern western states demands the deconstruction of its dichotomies and their excluding effects on non-normative identities. This demands in turn that gender self-determination be recognised as a right. In Spain this right has been given constitutional status (STC 99/2019), yet it is currently not articulated in legislation. Proposals of a new legal framework have met with resistance and an ensuing need for compromise. Unless it grasps and upholds the full constitutional extent of the right to gender self-determination, however, legislation risks being born both unconstitutional and obsolete, out of pace with social demands.
ISSN:2340-9592