男／娘當道：再論Judith Butler性別展演論之「可能的跨性別化」與例說

Empowering 5/he: Revisiting Judith Butler's Perspective of Gender Performativity and Its ''Possible Transgendering'' in a Case Study

本研究肯認Judith Butler性別展演論之「可能的跨性別化」確為當代跨性別研究的經典。然而，社會建構論等偏向卻產生某種跨性別盲點，以致於無法對性跨界和性別跨越的顛覆性進行過程分析與倫理判斷。透過皮膚自我（skin ego）和後跨性論（posttranssexuality）的觀點，輔以1950年代台灣首起「跨男疑雲」的劉敏事件為例，本研究直指男／娘當道得以微調並再論性別展演論之「可能的跨性別化」，據此揭櫫跨性（別）者肉身存在所體現的構成性外在（constitutive outside）與性別惑亂效應。

This paper begins by acknowledging Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity, particularly the“possible transgendering”of such performativity. This theory has become a cornerstone in contemporary transgender studies. However, the theoretical orientation of social constructionism and related perspectives tends to exhibit transgender blindness, which limits the ability to conduct process-oriented analysis and ethical evaluation of the subversive nature of sexed crossing and gender transgression. This study draws on perspectives such as skin ego and posttranssexuality and employs the Liu Min incident (the first“trans man suspicion”in Taiwan in the 1950s) as an example to highlight how the power rhetoric of empowering s/he can modify and redirect attention to the“possible transgendering”of gender performativity. In doing so, this study reveals the effect of the constitutive outside and the embodiment of gender trouble in transsexual and transgender corporeality.