Who Has the Right to Study Gender and How ? Reflections on the Situated Point of View and the Categorisation of Sex Based on a Mixed Method Study of Trans People. Trans people are often reticent when it comes to research. Looking back over a mixed method study, this article analyses the causes of this phenomenon. There are two main reasons for trans people’s distrust. The first relates to expert opinion and more specifically the point of view of professional experts, insofar as trans people have often already been objectivized by non-trans medical and legal experts. The second concerns the categorisation of sex. Some people do not recognise themselves in the man/woman binary applied by professional experts. However, the trans population is heterogeneous: criticism and refusal to participate were more common with certain social profiles than others, varying according to sex assigned at birth, age, generation, and level of education. By paying attention to this plurality, this article provides avenues for allowing researchers to navigate the trans field and also contributes to reflections on the situated point of view and the categorisation of sex in the social sciences.

谁有权研究性别？如何研究？基于跨性别者混合方法研究的关于情境定位和性别分类的思考。在研究方面，跨性别人士通常会保持沉默。回顾一下混合方法研究，本文分析了造成这种现象的原因。跨性别者不信任的主要原因有两个。第一个与专家意见有关，更具体地说，与专业专家的观点有关，因为跨性别者通常已经被非跨性别医学和法律专家所客观化。第二个问题涉及性别的分类。有些人在专业专家应用的男女二进制文件中不认识自己。但是，跨性别人口是异质的：在某些社会背景下，批评和拒绝参加的情况比其他人更为普遍，具体取决于出生时的性别，年龄，年龄和受教育程度。通过关注这种多元化，