Sexed citizenship and non-binary identities: from non discrimination to citizenship integration

Abstract

The panel is based on two basic premises that are briefly exposed as a starting point: -Identities are not born but constructed through repeated performative actions that are in turn informed by existing social constructions of gender. -Analyzing and understanding the ways in which gender is shared and historically constituted, the production of gender can occur differently and beyond a socially constructed binary on which heterosexuality depends. It is also a fact that the structures of our binary world are increasingly contested, especially by people who do not fit within them, who question the very essence of our sex-gender system by rejecting both their poles and claiming their individual identity within the grey area lying between them Accommodating non-binary identities will require us to re-think categories that seemed well established in a binary approach to sex-gender discrimination, in order to incorporate categories more suitable to address current binary structures and their discriminatory effects. A binary sex-gender thus affects citizenship not only at a national, but also at a European level. All the above points to the urgent need to explore ways to address non-binary sex-gender identities and how to integrate them in our democratic systems From this starting point, this panel is mainly interested on receiving proposals around this specific issues: -Critical reflection (mainly Queer and Transfeminist studies), that is currently incorporating a wide rage of theoretical and empirical research on this field -Legal studies that are also debating about how to transform normative frames to be more inclusive and democratic -Research on LGTBIQ+ mobilization in defense of non binary conceptions of citizenship along Europe and abroaa Comparative / one case (trans) national studies and more theoretical research are very welcome, as well as an intersectional approach, with contributions coming from close disciplines to political science as legal studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, philosophy

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