BEDENİN “NORMALLEŞTİRİLMESİ” SÖYLEMİ ÜZERİNE BİR ANALİZ: CİNSİYET GEÇİŞ AMELİYATLARI
AN ANALYZE ON THE DISCOURSE OF “NORMALIZING” THE BODY: TRANS-GENDER SURGERIES

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the differences between the discourse of medical institutions, the discourse of legislative regulations and the discourse of religious institutions in the process of trans-gender operations. Primarily, this article problematizes how these three institutions’ discourses are interpenetrating and complementing to each other when it comes to trans-gender operations. And then, this article problematizes the determination of these power relations through the ordering of gender regime. In the frame of this, for the trans-gender operations firstly it is examined the procedure in the medical institutions. Secondly, the ordering form of this issue in the legislative regulations and rules are reviewed. And lastly, the comments and practices of Presidency of Religious Affairs are embraced. These all differences and similarities between these three institutions are analyzed by Michel Foucault’s discourse analyze.

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