We propose to revisit the traditional portrait of transsexual people established in the 1950s: the conviction of being “in the wrong body”, victim of a “mistake of nature”, vital demand of reassignment at any price to get reborn in one’s “real body”. We will try to show that this discourse did not reflect, at that time, the reality of the suffering and experience of the majority of the patients and to follow its development from the moment speech became more free, especially with the birth of the transgender movement. We further analyze in what way - beyond the deconstruction of the male-female binarity - the deconstruction of all binarity, all the lines of separation between species takes place: man/woman, but also man/animal, and beyond that, man/machine, living/non-living, which leads us directly to a posthuman world.
Key words:
Transsexuality; transgenderism; posthuman; cyberfeminism