Following the demands of the LGBTQI+ community in public discourse, this study opts to create a dialogue concerning the implications of the discriminatory practices of the greek legal and health systems against transgender persons in general, as well as transgender persons of old age. More specifically, it aims to unearth the sexuality and gender-related issues which still hold power in public institutions, in order to expose their underlying sociopolitical reasons.
The study focuses of several discourses concerning the multiplicity of gender and the non-linear perception of ageing, using various critical tools from queer, transgender and poststructuralist theory as well as multiple scientific findings of the late 20th century. It strives to produce a new framework for discussing these issues beyond the stigmatizing practices of the Greek health and legal systems, which are unable to conceive the subjectivities of transgender people of old age beyond pathology.
Our aim is thus to critically discuss these problems by affirming the diversity of gender and the non-linearity of ageing, in order to envision a future beyond the narrow confines of the usual categories connected to heteronormative models. By focusing on the demands of transgender persons in general, the public struggles of the LGBTQI+ movements and the lived experiences of transgender persons of old age, we seek to adopt new strategies of social inclusion and recognition, without isolating any of the aforementioned viewpoints from the field of power relations and its connections to politics.