Abstract
The social and political debates on transgender rights in Spain is the focus of this article: it seeks to place current initiatives, claims and policy developments as well as political actors in their social, political and institutional context. It also explores new developments in the cultural, social and political ‘trans’ agenda. Particular attention is then paid to mapping trans discourses, made possible through theories of frame analysis and problem representation. Also, I discuss the benefits and limits of different kinds of framing strategies and discourses that have been used in the struggle for transgender rights, in which one of the most relevant criteria that organize the representations is the so-called ‘gender dysphoria’ frame. As a result, the emphasis on a medical and legal diagnosis has led to a new mobilization: anti-psychiatrization activism, which questions the binary organization of society.
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