Abstract

Law’s role in upholding and continually reproducing the cisheteropatriarchy is increasingly being challenged in Western courts. This is happening directly, by ‘non-gendered’ claimants wishing to undo law’s compulsory gender performance, and by ‘birthing men’ seeking to queer law’s gender binary. Indirectly ‘fucking’ law’s gendering function are the defendants in the so-called ‘gender deception’ prosecutions. Here we see the judicial system reasserting its hegemony as heteronorm-maker and enforcer. A different face of state pushback against queer anti-normativity shows in accommodation: several European courts have recently ordered the creation of a third gender option. This paper evaluates these ‘Queer Cases’, and asks what the queer struggle with the heteronormative can tell us about law’s social function, its relationship to the body, its material effects and emancipatory potential more broadly. Can we queer the legal structures that seek to know, categorise, assign, police and contain our genders and sexualities or is now the time to say ‘fuck law’?

摘要

在西方法院中，法律在维护和不断复制父权制父权制方面的作用日益受到挑战。这是直接发生的，是希望取消法律强制性性别表现的“无性别”索偿者，以及试图质疑法律性别二元性的“生男人”。在所谓的“性别欺骗”起诉中，被告间接地具有“性别歧视法”的性别角色。在这里，我们看到司法系统重新确立了其作为异规范的制定者和执行者的霸主地位。在反抗中，反对国家反对酷儿反规范的另一种反面是：几家欧洲法院最近下令建立第三种性别选择。本文对这些“ Queer案例”进行了评估，并提出了与异规范之间的酷儿斗争可以告诉我们有关法律的社会功能，其与身体的关系，它的物质影响和解放潜力更加广泛。我们是否可以质疑寻求了解，分类，分配，监管和包含我们的性别和性行为的法律结构，或者现在是时候说“ f子法”吗？