Schools act as strongly binary and cisgenderist gender devices. Based on an institutionalized, systemic, cross-cutting cisnormative system that organizes the lives of the entire student population, particularly trans* and non-binary, they regulate identities, enshrining the existence of only two genders in which students can, and should, identify. However, trans* and non-binary adolescents do not passively undergo gender-normative and normative educational devices, but, on the contrary, may enact strategies of resistance. Referring to a systematic review, with which I analyzed the state of the art in pedagogy regarding the school experience of trans* non-binary adolescents, it is possible to identify forms of resistance, both individual and collective, acted out by those students. Attesting to such situated tactics of survival allows for valuing self-determination and agency of such subjectivities, breaking a widespread passivizing and victimizing narrative of trans and non-binary adolescents.
Le scuole agiscono come dispositivi di genere fortemente binari e cisgenderisti. Basate su un sistema cisnormativo istituzionalizzato, sistemico e trasversale che organizza la vita di tutta la popolazione studentesca, in particolare trans* e non binaria, esse regolano le identità, sancendo l’esistenza di due soli generi in cui lз studenti possono, e devono, riconoscersi. Tuttavia, adolescenti trans* e non binarз non subiscono passivamente dispositivi educativi di genere normanti e normativi, ma, al contrario, possono mettere in atto strategie di resistenza. Facendo riferimento a una systematic review, con cui ho analizzato lo stato dell’arte in ambito pedagogico relativamente all’esperienza scolastica di adolescenti trans* non binarɜ, è possibile individuare forme di resistenza, individuali e collettive, agite da questɜ studenti. Attenzionare tali tattiche situate di sopravvivenza permette di valorizzare autodeterminazione e agency di tali soggettività, spezzando una diffusa narrazione passivizzante e vittimizzante delle adolescenze trans e non binarie.
La cisnormatività educativa non è un monolite. Strategie di resistenza adolescente, trans* e non binaria a scuola
Santambrogio Alessia
2024-01-01
Abstract
Schools act as strongly binary and cisgenderist gender devices. Based on an institutionalized, systemic, cross-cutting cisnormative system that organizes the lives of the entire student population, particularly trans* and non-binary, they regulate identities, enshrining the existence of only two genders in which students can, and should, identify. However, trans* and non-binary adolescents do not passively undergo gender-normative and normative educational devices, but, on the contrary, may enact strategies of resistance. Referring to a systematic review, with which I analyzed the state of the art in pedagogy regarding the school experience of trans* non-binary adolescents, it is possible to identify forms of resistance, both individual and collective, acted out by those students. Attesting to such situated tactics of survival allows for valuing self-determination and agency of such subjectivities, breaking a widespread passivizing and victimizing narrative of trans and non-binary adolescents.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.