de Vries Kylan Mattias, Sojka Carey Jean
Sociology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, USA.
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, USA.
Int J Transgend Health. 2020 Nov 8;23(1-2):97-107. doi: 10.1080/26895269.2020.1838388. eCollection 2022.
While research on trans People of Color's experiences has been increasing in recent years, this intersectional work has often not included a focus on the specificities of multiracial and multiethnic trans experiences. This study explores shifts in racial identity by multiracial/multiethnic trans people as they transition gender and the ways Whiteness and nationalist ideology shape their racialized gender experiences. This paper is based on six in-depth, semi-structured interviews with self-identified multiracial, multiethnic, and multi-heritage trans people in the USA. Data collection centered participants' experiences of self-identification and interactions with others (e.g., family, acquaintances, and strangers). As participants transitioned gender and were acknowledged by others in their gender identity, shifts in their embodiment were used by others to ascribe a new racialized gender. This often resulted in participants reflecting on their sense of self and racialized gender identities in new ways. Multiracial and multiethnic transgender people's experiences in transitioning race confirm the importance of intersectional analysis, reveal the intersectional fluidity of social categories, explicate how social understandings of one category (e.g., race) influence another category (e.g., gender), demonstrate that the meanings associated with racialized gender are based in relations of power, and show that, in transgender studies particularly, we must attend to the ways that the concept of transition implicates not only gender, but also other categories such as race and nationality.
近年来，关于有色人种跨性别者经历的研究不断增加，但这类交叉性研究往往未聚焦于多种族和多民族跨性别经历的特殊性。本研究探讨了多种族/多民族跨性别者在转变性别过程中种族身份的变化，以及白人身份和民族主义意识形态如何塑造他们的种族化性别经历。本文基于对美国自我认同为多种族、多民族和多血统的跨性别者进行的六次深度半结构化访谈。数据收集围绕参与者的自我认同经历以及与他人（如家人、熟人、陌生人）的互动展开。随着参与者转变性别并在其性别认同上得到他人认可，他人会利用他们身体表现的变化来赋予一种新的种族化性别。这常常导致参与者以新的方式反思自己的自我认知和种族化性别认同。多种族和多民族跨性别者在转变种族过程中的经历证实了交叉性分析的重要性，揭示了社会类别之间交叉的流动性，阐明了社会对一个类别（如种族）的理解如何影响另一个类别（如性别），表明与种族化性别相关的意义基于权力关系，并表明，特别是在跨性别研究中，我们必须关注转变这一概念不仅涉及性别，还涉及种族和国籍等其他类别。
