Souhaits oubliés : documents de fin de vie des personnes trans vivant avec une démence aux marges des changements juridiques
Literature on the topic of trans older adults has documented a few anecdotal cases in which some trans people living with dementia forgot they transitioned and reidentified with their sex assigned at birth (“detransition”). Trans communities and their allies have encouraged trans people to engage in...
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| author | Alexandre Baril Marjorie Silverman Marie-Claire Gauthier Maude Lévesque |
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| description | Literature on the topic of trans older adults has documented a few anecdotal cases in which some trans people living with dementia forgot they transitioned and reidentified with their sex assigned at birth (“detransition”). Trans communities and their allies have encouraged trans people to engage in end-of-life planning, including the preparation of legal documents that state their wishes regarding gender identity and expression in the event of “incapacity” caused by dementia. While useful, we contend that end-of-life planning is often implicitly based on cisnormative and cogninormative (normative system based on cognitive abilities) assumptions. Such planning is founded on a stable notion of gender identity throughout the life course (“post-transition”) and assumes that the pre-dementia self is better equipped to make decisions than the “demented” self. We conclude by encouraging, based on an intersectional, trans-affirmative, crip-positive, and age-positive approach, respect for the agency of trans people with dementia. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a5f80e337b9d45519dc3a09ab617a9012025-01-30T10:37:38ZfraAssociation Genres, sexualités, langageGlad!2551-08192021-07-011010.4000/glad.2460Souhaits oubliés : documents de fin de vie des personnes trans vivant avec une démence aux marges des changements juridiquesAlexandre BarilMarjorie SilvermanMarie-Claire GauthierMaude LévesqueLiterature on the topic of trans older adults has documented a few anecdotal cases in which some trans people living with dementia forgot they transitioned and reidentified with their sex assigned at birth (“detransition”). Trans communities and their allies have encouraged trans people to engage in end-of-life planning, including the preparation of legal documents that state their wishes regarding gender identity and expression in the event of “incapacity” caused by dementia. While useful, we contend that end-of-life planning is often implicitly based on cisnormative and cogninormative (normative system based on cognitive abilities) assumptions. Such planning is founded on a stable notion of gender identity throughout the life course (“post-transition”) and assumes that the pre-dementia self is better equipped to make decisions than the “demented” self. We conclude by encouraging, based on an intersectional, trans-affirmative, crip-positive, and age-positive approach, respect for the agency of trans people with dementia.https://journals.openedition.org/glad/2460trans and nonbinary peopledementiaend-of-life planning and documentscisgenderism/transphobiaableism/cogniticismageism |
| spellingShingle | Alexandre Baril Marjorie Silverman Marie-Claire Gauthier Maude Lévesque Souhaits oubliés : documents de fin de vie des personnes trans vivant avec une démence aux marges des changements juridiques Glad! trans and nonbinary people dementia end-of-life planning and documents cisgenderism/transphobia ableism/cogniticism ageism |
| title | Souhaits oubliés : documents de fin de vie des personnes trans vivant avec une démence aux marges des changements juridiques |
| title_full | Souhaits oubliés : documents de fin de vie des personnes trans vivant avec une démence aux marges des changements juridiques |
| title_fullStr | Souhaits oubliés : documents de fin de vie des personnes trans vivant avec une démence aux marges des changements juridiques |
| title_full_unstemmed | Souhaits oubliés : documents de fin de vie des personnes trans vivant avec une démence aux marges des changements juridiques |
| title_short | Souhaits oubliés : documents de fin de vie des personnes trans vivant avec une démence aux marges des changements juridiques |
| title_sort | souhaits oublies documents de fin de vie des personnes trans vivant avec une demence aux marges des changements juridiques |
| topic | trans and nonbinary people dementia end-of-life planning and documents cisgenderism/transphobia ableism/cogniticism ageism |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/glad/2460 |
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