The Transman Bodily Discourse: Hidden Power of the Gender Reassignment Health Service Industry in Thai Society
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In a capitalist society governed by heterosexual norms, social and cultural practices occurring in the post-industrial era reveal cooperation between medical institutions and capitalism, empowering physicians to participate in modifying and repairing transman (female-to-male transgender) bodies to achieve such standards. Valuing the body for scientific reasons emphasizing biological gender exposes transmen to diseases and psychiatric disorders requiring treatment with technology and medical knowledge. Government mechanisms, including economic and well-being policies, help legitimize the medical transition process. Therefore, the transman body social rather than naturalistic, embedded in scientific discourse and neoliberal consciousness values.
Social and cultural practices illuminate dimensions shaping the transman bodily discourse while reflecting the power of capitalist medical institution practices instilling body-related knowledge, truth and ideology through the transman bodily discourse. This derives from uniting different discourses until the meaning of the transman body is related to the economic dimension, varying according to public and private hospital.
Starting the transgender process carries physical and psychological risks. Surgery constructs trust for transmen by emphasizing medical knowledge and expertise that produces positive surgical results through problem-solving skills in visual and written language communication. Abstract systems thereby created build confidence in medical expertise, which has hitherto only been glimpsed at superficially.
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