Trans i queerdebatt - Revolutionen som uteblev?

Abstract

Trans in queer debates - the revolution that did not happen?Trans people have become an ideological battle ground in parts of gender and queer studies. The article traces the trans/queer relation in international scholarly debates from an enthusiastic exchange of ideas in the 1990s to increasing mutual criticism and mistrust around the turn of the millennium as queer was seen by some as a problematic approach that easily ends up in erasure of trans people's subjective experiences, and further to attempts to bridge such splits that had emerged. Finally, I discuss how queer perspectives seem to have contributed to increased flexibility in medical and legal approaches even if they are criticised for being illequipped for sociological analyses.