Depathologization of Gender Variance
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.33
**DEPATHOLOGIZING TRANS** > **Psychoanalysis is not a border patrol**
Theoretical move: By juxtaposing the legal/bureaucratic processes of naturalization and gender amendment, and anchoring this in Lacan's self-description as "a poem being written," Gherovici argues that the subject is a creative, open-ended construction rather than a fixed biological or legal essence — thereby grounding the depathologization of gender variance in a psychoanalytic critique of normative sexuality.
Cisgender overcomes the trans/non-trans divide. It also questions the notion of what is normal in sexuality and sexual identity in a movement towards depathologizing gender variance and sexual non-conformity.