In this article, we reflect on our personal experience of acting as ‘independent academic experts’ in an European Union (EU) policy forum, to reflect on how the EU utilises gender to legitimise certain policy discourses in combating sex trafficking. Starting from our personal experience, we draw on wider feminist research on gender expertise and on Fraser’s new reflexive theory of political injustice, to consider how the EU structures debates in this area to determine ‘who’ is entitled to speak and be heard on this issue. In a context in which sex trafficking policy intersects with a variety of competing agendas on – among other things – law and order, organised crime, immigration, asylum and border security policy, our argument will suggest that the exclusion of critical feminist voices and lack of alternative perspectives permits much scope for continuing inequality and injustice.

在本文中，我们反思了我们在欧盟 (EU) 政策论坛中担任“独立学术专家”的个人经历，以反思欧盟如何利用性别来使某些打击性交易的政策话语合法化。从我们的个人经验出发，我们借鉴了更广泛的关于性别专业知识的女权主义研究和弗雷泽关于政治不公正的新反身理论，来考虑欧盟如何组织这一领域的辩论，以确定“谁”有权在这个问题上发言和被倾听. 在性交易政策与法律和秩序、有组织犯罪、移民、庇护和边境安全政策等方面的各种相互竞争的议程相交的背景下，