TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chiang,Howard
TI  - Intimate Equality and Transparent Selves: Legalising Transgender Marriage in Hong Kong
PY  - 2017///.
							
N1  - 18
N2  - In May 2013, the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong ruled in favour of granting transgender individuals the right to marry in their post-transition gender rather than their biological sex at birth. This landmark judgment, W v Registar of Marriages, has been considered by many as an important milestone in the LGBT rights movement in Sinophone communities. In scrutinising both the majority and dissenting statements, a critical analysis of the parameters of queerness in this ruling shows that the liberal framing of transgender marriage rights engenders what I call ‘the polite residuals of heteronormativity’, which figures the advancement of queer interest by perpetuating certain implicit forms of gender and sexual oppression. Moreover, theses residuals – concealed within a broader outlook of political progressiveness – were conditional upon a rhetoric of imperial citationality that renders giant global superpowers, especially Britain and China, as the normative frames of legal autorisation
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-l-homme-et-la-societe-2017-1-page-85?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -