Current trans events should be connected with aspects of the societal evolution of western civilization’s models; this reveals their political dimension. Adolescents, as figures of modernity, are particularly apt to embody trans identity questionings. By bringing these into conflict with the subjectivation process proper to this time of life, they lead us to rethink our way of reading gendered identities, along with the binary logic on which sexual differentiation is based.

Adolescence, 2023, 41, 2, 325-337.