Legal Bestiary: normalizing devices to transsexuality

Abstract

This paper analyzes  the intersection  between  law and medicine  that develops  in the normalizing devices to transsexuality. Therefore, it thoroughly examines the jurisprudential discourse  and the Act 3/2007.  From this analysis,  we understand  that the Diagnostic  and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), used in medicine and assumed by the law as  a requirement  for the registration  of the sex change,  has the force of law, performing the functions of the ancient bestiaries and immunizing  the sexual binary.