ABSTRACT
Trans and intersex studies and movements propose a change in the conceptualization of gender and bodily diversity, from its classification as mental disorder and malformation toward its recognition as a human right.
Trans and intersex scholars and allies contribute a critical review of human rights violations and pathologizing practices in research, proposing research epistemologies, methodologies and ethics based on a depathologization and human rights perspective.
From my own academic-activist-artistic perspective and experience of ethical doubts in research, in the chapter I review the contribution of the depathologization and human right perspective to a broader discussion on research epistemologies, methodologies and ethics in social sciences. Finally, I propose to construct an ethics of depathologization, as a work-in-process concept open to further developments.
