「謝尖順事件」之媒體語藝框架分析：「跨性別國家主義」的觀點

A Rhetorical Framing Analysis of Media Discourse of the ''HSIEH Chien Shun Event'': Constructing a Perspective of ''Transgender Nationalism''

"本研究旨在對1950年代台灣的「謝尖順事件」之媒體報導進行語藝框架分析。「謝尖順事件」是台灣欲藉由打造「自由中國」的形象以建立統治正當性的性別事件和關鍵個案，其中更揭櫫「跨性別國家主義」（transgender nationalism）的語藝運作。研究發現，在謝尖順報導的「過程敘事」中，看似多重異質的聲音腔調透過管道框架、責任／義務框架、個人化框架和策略框架所具體架構出的變性或雙性身體，一方面乃異於醫學知識或一般常識之病理域外狀態，另一方面更被迫持續困勉而行地往主流性別二分框架靠攏。再者，謝尖順「在場卻缺席」的可見性政治使得她的存在雖然挑戰了當時社會對於性的生物本質論、身體與性別認同間的連續性之既定慣性認識，卻釀成更全面地、更大規模地、更有「國家性」甚至是國際觀的對性別身體和個體的馴化管控。在此，約定俗成的異性戀霸權與性別僵化觀被回溯性地、無縫接軌地藉由性別重建手術而確立其優勢排他地位。性與身體的重新打造不但因此與個體的自我、自主意識無涉；更有甚者，醫療、軍隊和國家共謀的語藝奇觀更巧妙地把謝尖順微弱的現聲，論述為深明大義、以國家之名、以大局為重。
This paper aims to elaborate the rhetorical construction of ''transgender nationalism'' by analyzing the media reporting and its framing of the ''HSIEH Chien Shun Event''. The ''HSIEH Chien Shun Event'' is a gendered event and a critical case in Taiwan in the 1950s; thereby, the then Kuomintang government attempted to construct its political legitimacy and technological advancement of the ''free China'' (by contrast to decay and the uncivilized of mainland China governed by the Chinese Communist Party). This paper argues that multiple voices referring to HSIEH exemplified a specific kind of ''emergence narrative'' via conduit frame, accountability frame, personalization frame and strategy frame. Herein, a transitional or intersexual body was diagnosed as an alien or abnormal state which was apart from existed medical knowledge and physiological common sense; nevertheless, that body status still edged up to the mainstream gender binary exhaustedly. Even though the media representation of HSIEH indeed dismantled the supposed continuity between biological sex and gender identity to some extent, HSIEH's ''present absence'' and visibility politics still activated the overwhelming, nationalized and internationalized disciplinary control over individualized body under the then Kuomintang regime. My research findings suggest that both cisnormativity and heteronormativity were further maintained through the very sex reassignment surgery in this case. Furthermore, the reconstruction of sex and body had been deployed as the spectacle by the conspiracy rhetoric among medical system, military army and the nation state rather than the gender consciousness and the self of HSIEH. HSIEH's faint existence and weak voice couldn't be anything but the reified patriotic object served in the name of the country."

"This paper aims to elaborate the rhetorical construction of ''transgender nationalism'' by analyzing the media reporting and its framing of the ''HSIEH Chien Shun Event''. The ''HSIEH Chien Shun Event'' is a gendered event and a critical case in Taiwan in the 1950s; thereby, the then Kuomintang government attempted to construct its political legitimacy and technological advancement of the ''free China'' (by contrast to decay and the uncivilized of mainland China governed by the Chinese Communist Party). This paper argues that multiple voices referring to HSIEH exemplified a specific kind of ''emergence narrative'' via conduit frame, accountability frame, personalization frame and strategy frame. Herein, a transitional or intersexual body was diagnosed as an alien or abnormal state which was apart from existed medical knowledge and physiological common sense; nevertheless, that body status still edged up to the mainstream gender binary exhaustedly. Even though the media representation of HSIEH indeed dismantled the supposed continuity between biological sex and gender identity to some extent, HSIEH's ''present absence'' and visibility politics still activated the overwhelming, nationalized and internationalized disciplinary control over individualized body under the then Kuomintang regime. My research findings suggest that both cisnormativity and heteronormativity were further maintained through the very sex reassignment surgery in this case. Furthermore, the reconstruction of sex and body had been deployed as the spectacle by the conspiracy rhetoric among medical system, military army and the nation state rather than the gender consciousness and the self of HSIEH. HSIEH's faint existence and weak voice couldn't be anything but the reified patriotic object served in the name of the country."