ABSTRACT

In this article, we demonstrate how the theory of vulnerability-in-resistance is manifest in the school experiences of trans youth in Ireland. Despite rapidly changing cultural attitudes towards gender and sexuality diversity and increasing visibility of LGBTI+ youth, we show that trans youth in Ireland continue to be vulnerable to marginalisation, discrimination, and violence within school settings because of institutionalised cisnormativity. We explore how this vulnerability drives some trans youth to resist the conditions of their vulnerability. Strategies of resistance include naming their experience, mobilising their voice and building networks of solidarity. Enacting such resistances invariably exposes trans youth to harm but these same actions reveal their potentiality in disrupting and fragmenting educational cisnormativity.

摘要

在本文中，我们展示了抵抗中的脆弱理论如何体现在爱尔兰跨性别青年的学校经历中。尽管对性别和性行为多样性的文化态度迅速变化，并且 LGBTI+ 青年的知名度不断提高，但我们表明，由于制度化的顺从性，爱尔兰的跨性别青年在学校环境中仍然容易受到边缘化、歧视和暴力的影响。我们探讨这种脆弱性如何驱使一些跨性别青年抵制他们脆弱的条件。抵抗策略包括命名他们的经历、动员他们的声音和建立团结网络。实施这样的抵抗总会使跨性别青年受到伤害，但这些同样的行为揭示了他们在破坏和分裂教育顺应性方面的潜力。