This article investigates “toransujendā” (transgender), “josō” (male-to-female crossdressing), and “otoko no ko” (boy/male daughter) as categories that bind through ethnographic research in Tokyo’s contemporary josō gyōkai (scene and business circles). Building on queer and transgender scholarship, I ask what these categories mean, what they do, and how they figure in trans people’s everyday lives and the institutionalization of seidōitsuseishōgai (Japanese translation of Gender Identity Disorder). I argue that categories are imbued with asymmetrical power relations and operate affectively, emerging from contact between bodies and practices. Ultimately, they are important sites for questioning categories of “gender” and “sexuality” in transnational sexuality and transgender studies.

本文通过东京当代josō gyōkai（场景和商业）中的人种学研究，将“ toransujendā ”（变性）、“ josō ”（男变女）和“ otoko no ko ”（男孩/男女儿）作为结合类别进行调查。界）。以酷儿和跨性别学术为基础，我询问这些类别的含义，它们的作用，以及它们如何在跨性别者的日常生活中以及seidōitsuseishōgai的制度化中发挥作用（性别认同障碍的日文翻译）。我认为，范畴充满了不对称的权力关系，并且从身体和实践之间的接触中产生情感作用。归根结底，它们是在跨国性和跨性别研究中质疑“性别”和“性”类别的重要场所。