Gendered identities and gender variance have become a regular subject of the discourse of the United Nations human rights protection mechanisms. This article explores the manner in which gender identities are discussed, constructed, and regulated by the international human rights law system. Through use of postcolonial and feminist theoretical lenses, it argues that the emergence of multiple gendered identities into the legal mainstream has required the United Nations human rights bodies to expand their concepts of gender and to develop a new vocabulary and jurisprudence of gender variance. The article examines the language used in the construction of gendered subjects and its relationship to dynamics of state and postcolonial power. It also introduces the concept of the ‘cisgender matrix’ to international human rights law, expressing the hierarchical social privilege given to binary, stable gendered identities over gender-variant ones.

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有争议的人权主体：国际人权法的跨性别主体

性别认同和性别差异已成为联合国人权保护机制讨论的常规主题。本文探讨了国际人权法体系讨论、构建和规范性别认同的方式。通过使用后殖民主义和女权主义的理论视角，它认为多重性别身份进入法律主流要求联合国人权机构扩展其性别概念，并开发新的性别差异词汇和判例。本文考察了用于构建性别主体的语言及其与国家动态和后殖民权力的关系。它还在国际人权法中引入了“顺性别矩阵”的概念，