Abstract
Since the 1990’s in Japan, Gender Identity Disorder (GID) medicine and transgenderism have sources on the cause of GID people’s need of physical changes. This article claims two point. (1) I insisted that free choices of the medical treatment have destabilized by GID medicine and transgenderism. Because both have understood GID people’s needs indistinctly. (2) I cleared the needs and examine the logic of transgenderism. It strikes a balance between the criticism of GID people’s social coercion and their free choice of medicine.
(1) Medical practitioners have found the biological cause of the needs and cannot exclude social disadvantages associated with GID. And transgenderism focuses on the social disadvantages. I pointed out that both destabilize GID people’s free choice of medicine by showing social coercive situation around it.
(2) However, in the standpoint of transgenrerism there are discourses which take a balance between social coercions and their free choice of medicine. In my perspective, we cannot separate the social disadvantages from the biological cause in the needs. And only after we eliminated the coercive situation, the free choice of bodily changes would be possible. Situating the needs as such, I reread transgenderism. Then, I conclude that they show the logic of compatibility between their subjectivity of choice of medicine and their criticism of social coercion.
