Abstract

FARJI NEER, Anahí. Discursos polémicos sobre el derecho a la identidad de género en menores de edad: Análisis de los debates parlamentarios de la Ley de Identidad de Género (Argentina, 2011). Trama comun. [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.1, pp.129-140. ISSN 1668-5628.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the polemical discourses developed during the parliamentary debate that ended with the enactment of the Gender Identity Law (Law 26,743). The study consists of an analysis of verbatim transcripts of parliamentary discussions held in the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine National Congress on November 2011. A selection of speeches focused on those articles of the Law involving minors is analyzed. Particularly, discussions referred to articles No. 5 and No. 11. We employ theoretical and methodological tools offered by the French discourse theory centered on the problem of "controversial speech" or "dialogic argumentation". This paper aims to collaborate to the study of contemporary public debates concerning the issues of gender identity, autonomous decision over one's bodies and access to medical technologies of bodily transformation. The analysis points out that the debate about gender identity right for minors was affected by a symbolic dispute over how to understand the surgical practices legalized by this law.

Keywords : Discourse analysis; Polemical discourse; Legal discourse; Gender identity; Corporeality.

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