Discourses of disclosure: the un/revolutionary potential of transmasculine sexual scripts
Résumé
This paper discusses the discourses around transidentity or transness disclosure in sexual contexts
that have been collected during an ethnographic research on transmasculine sexualities carried out in
France between 2019 and 2023. Focusing on the way in which disclosing is inscribed in transmasculine
sexual scripts, it intends to address three points. First, it will show that disclosure is part of a specific
and strategic management of its temporalities in relation to the other. Secondly, it will expose an
unthought-of aspect of the discourses on disclosure: the fact that disclosure is considered mandatory
when the desired partner is perceived as perhaps not being aware of it. This unthought reveals different
power dynamics at work, which will, thirdly, be reconsidered against a marginal counter-narrative of
voluntary non-disclosure that emerged in the course of the research, allowing for new perspectives on
the ways of thinking about the scripts and their contingencies.
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