Following this logic, I define gendersex as consisting of an entanglement of concepts and materialities that co-construct each other in phenomena. Furthermore, similarly to how the Danish transdisciplinary feminist scholar Nina Lykke uses the term gender/sex, I use the term gendersex as a way of translating into English the meaning of the Danish word køn in the material of my analysis. In English, this would be translated into either sex or gender, but in Danish it entails both aspects and does not distinguish clearly between them (Lykke 2010).

I use Holm’s (2017 : 75) term gendersex to denaturalize the separation of the material/biological and the discursive/social

Holm provides a contextualised analysis of two life stories by persons in trans or intersex(ed) positions who applied for the legal change of their gendersex status, as Holm innovatively names it.

the technologies and histories of racial and colonial gendering that have established binary gendersex as one of the primary fault lines for securing and differentiating the national body

Gendersex

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