ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors believe that the discourse of trans owes its power and ubiquity to its attempt to deny the complexity of sexuality as defined by psychoanalysis and thus to repudiate the division constitutive of subjectivity. They introduce Jazz Jennings not as a case study but rather as a participant in the production—as well as an example— of the discourse of trans. The authors highlight the specificity of the discourse of trans as it pertains to children, part of a broader research project they are working on, listening to the very public discourse of trans in order to hear the "what-can-not-be-spoken" in what is being said. They argue that while the apparent "solution" of gender dysphoria has as its consequence the silencing of any questions related to how cross-sex identification operates for a particular subject, psychoanalysis has as its foundation the ceaseless questioning of all aspects of human sexuality for each and every subject.
