European Politics and Society· 2026Q1
Recognising, protecting and measuring: the institutional construction of the trans subject in European governance (2015–2025)
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European institutions construct trans subjects through logics of protection, administrative recognition, and statistical measurement, expanding visibility but limiting policy focus to vulnerability and documentability over labour and care.
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Key points
- European institutions employ protection, recognition, and measurement logics to govern trans subjects.
- These logics increase institutional visibility but limit policy focus to vulnerability and documentability.
- Labour, care, and social reproduction remain comparatively marginal in European trans governance.
- Trans governance is theorised as an architecture of institutional intelligibility.
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Abstract
This article examines how European institutions construct the trans subject within contemporary governance frameworks. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of institutional documents produced within the 2015–2025 policy cycle by the European Commission, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, the European Institute for Gender Equality and the Council of Europe, the article identifies three interconnected logics of trans governance: protection, administrative recognition and statistical measurement. It argues that these logics expand the institutional visibility of trans populations while also structuring the limits of what becomes actionable as a trans policy issue. Trans subjects become intelligible as vulnerable, documentable and measurable, whereas labour, care and social reproduction remain comparatively marginal. The article contributes to debates on European LGBTIQAPN + governance, trans politics and feminist policy analysis by theorising European trans governance as an architecture of institutional intelligibility.
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