Psychology and Cisnormativity

Abstract

This article aims to articulate the discussion about the gender issues that constitute psychology’s knowledge field and the critiques of the trans-feminist knowledge to normative and pathological practices and discourses about the experiences of trans people. The notion of cisgenerity is used for such analysis as a way of naming a place from which trans identities are enunciated. Moreover, the notion of cis-normativity is used as an apparatus that regulates and determines meanings of coherence to the processes of gender constitution. These concepts function as analytical and political operators that make a counterpoint to the naturalization of cisgenerity as a founding presupposition of the truths of gender and the modes of subjectivation. Therefore, it is problematized how psychology participates in the cis-normative arrangements related to the modes of recognition of trans people and to the possibilities of enunciation about their experiences.