ABSTRACT
New subjectivities and ways of embodiment have been the focus of a good part of contemporary critical theory, queer theory and progressive feminism. Within these new debates, however, the language and intellectual references have often struggled to keep up-to-date with the multiplicity of possibilities that are contemplated by the Self. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 presents itself in such a way that trans people are from the very beginning referred to in clinical terms, thus creating a framework of pathology for their trans condition. The assumption under which the Gender Recognition Act 2004 is constructed suggests an idea of fluidity when contextualising gender within the provision. The most problematic element in this paradigm is the passage where the self draws legitimisation through the recognition of the other. It is an unbalanced exchange that does not guarantee the production of new happy subjects.
