This article endeavors to describe the impact of ‘visual essentialism’ as an approach towards trans visual culture, including the violence it enacts and the mistrust it fosters towards self-defining language for gender identities. It borrows Susan Stryker’s insight in her introduction to her Transgender Studies Reader (2006, edited with Stephen Whittle) that trans phenomena move to the foreground when set against an ambient background consisting of gender normative conditions. It extrapolates this visual metaphor for understanding trans in contrast to non-trans into a method to analyze trans visual culture. The author argues that, by focusing on how the figure and ground relate in alignment, or not, the analyst can better examine how the components of visuality are working together to position one’s value-laden perspective on visible transgender and non/trans things. This elaboration along three proposed categories of value, namely political, symbolic and commercial, is offered to better understand and parse the noted problem of trans visibility increasing alongside transphobic violence.

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前景与背景的摇摆线：跨视觉文化示意图分析的建议

本文试图描述“视觉本质主义”作为一种对跨视觉文化的方法的影响，包括它所制定的暴力和它对性别认同的自我定义语言的不信任。它借用了 Susan Stryker 在她的 Transgender Studies Reader（2006，与 Stephen Whittle 编辑）的介绍中的洞察力，即在由性别规范条件组成的环境背景下，跨性别现象会移到前台。它将这种用于理解跨性别与非跨性别的视觉隐喻推断为一种分析跨性别视觉文化的方法。作者认为，通过关注图形和地面如何对齐，或不对齐，分析师可以更好地检查视觉的组成部分如何协同工作，以将一个人的价值加载观点定位于可见的跨性别和非/跨性别事物。围绕三个提议的价值类别（即政治、象征和商业）进行详细阐述，以更好地理解和解析跨性别可见性随着恐惧跨性别暴力而增加的显着问题。