ABSTRACT

Trans children have become more visible in primary schools in recent years. Arising from a qualitative study with twelve parents of trans children (aged 5–13) and six primary school educators in Ireland, this paper explores how trans children experience two very different forms of celebratory rituals that are entangled with life in primary schools: birthday celebrations and religious rituals. These rituals are experienced as moments of affectively intense rupture for trans children, moments that shunt the violence of the disciplinary framework of gender into view. Informed by theorizing on gender norms and affect, this paper makes visible the cruel conundrum of navigating a gender frame that acts violently but at the same provides the very terms through which trans identities can be asserted and apprehended. Ultimately, this paper provides an empirical illustration of the messiness of gender and argues for the necessity to complicate the framework of gender in primary schools.

摘要

近年来，跨性别儿童在小学中变得越来越明显。本文源自对爱尔兰 12 名跨性别儿童（5-13 岁）父母和 6 名小学教育工作者的定性研究，探讨跨性别儿童如何体验两种与小学生活息息相关的截然不同的庆祝仪式：生日庆祝和宗教仪式。这些仪式被体验为跨性别儿童情感强烈破裂的时刻，将性别纪律框架的暴力转移到视野中的时刻。通过对性别规范和情感的理论化，本文揭示了在暴力行为的性别框架中导航的残酷难题，但同时也提供了可以断言和理解跨性别身份的术语。最终，