| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 公共行政與政策學系 === 100 === In a heterosexual-dominated society, the transgender is always the hidden and forbidden issue. The image of transgender remains anomaly and periphery, even reported in media or newspaper.
This study begins with the first discrimination law case of transgender, trying to explore the oppression of the societal discipline and the patriarchy system which concern the transgender in office, family, public sphere, private sphere, and every aspect in everyday life. The transgender is the anomie in the patriarchal criterion of “the coincidence between sexuality and gender”, then become the order breaker in the patriarchy society.
The first part of this research which is consisted of four parts will focus that how the transgender study and explore their own body images. While the transgender is making the body the gender-expressing tool, they have to deal with the omnipresent Foucaultian discipline. We investigate the response of transgender to the office issue in the second part and the toilet-problem, especially what the male-to-female transgender has to deal with——the androphobia—–in the third part. In the rest of the third part, we discuss what do the transgender have to deal in hospital system, family or any kind place filled with the discipline. The discipline and punishment, and the breaking of family and parenthood have hence become the hardest issue for transgender. In the last part of this research, we inspect the powerful discipline of patriarchy and the predicament of transgender when they’re facing the problem of gender-internalization.
According to our research, the diversity of gender could not simply deal with the societal convention. The display of gender must be in accordance with the societal convention. Besides, even the transgender themselves could feel the predicament in the same way as their fellows, their way to face it would be personalized as much as possible. They always ask themselves to be on their own, handling the issue with high EQ and flexible ways.
Moreover, the discipline of patriarchy is going to be internalized in transgender. Some of them couldn’t just pass the cleavage between sexuality and gender. They hope to be treated like the heterosexual, and own the right of be private. Although the transgender are willing to shake the dual-sexuality system with the body and the appearance in public; in private, they would like to be more “disciplined” to be subjected to the society in order to be not attacked.
This research hopes to point out that the gender discipline confines not only the behavior and the body display, but also the living conditions when the patriarchal society is an alliance with capitalism society. The cleavage between sexuality and gender makes transgender become both gender vulnerable group and economical vulnerable group in office, marriage, and family system in a patriarchal society.
Transgender are normally those whose gender inclination couldn’t be included in a heterosexuality society. However, there are indeed serious class conflicts within transgender world. Those transgender in wealthy, powerful, and high social-economical position would face fewer problems than those who are in worse positions. The dual coercion makes the relative vulnerable transgender more vulnerable and own less opportunity to improve their living conditions.
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