Resumen

CICCIA, lu. Why is it necessary to eliminate the gender category from the biomedical field? Towards the notion of bioprocesses in the postgenomic era. Inter disciplina [online]. 2024, vol.12, n.32, pp.105-129.  Epub 15-Mar-2024. ISSN 2448-5705.  https://doi.org/10.22201/ceiich.24485705e.2024.32.86922.

The sex category usually refers to the idea of pre-social variables, i. e., detached from the environment. At the same time, they are interpreted as fundamental for a better understanding of disease prevalence, development and treatment. In this paper, I argue that such a characterization implies a series of biases that derive from a mechanistic reading of the processes of sexual differentiation, on the one hand, disease, on the other, and, confluently, of the sex-prevalence relationship. To this end, I will show that neither most of the variables considered of clinical relevance, nor their variabilities, are defined by the attributes we associate with the sex category. I will therefore propose that in the post-genomic era it is necessary to displace this category by the notion of bioprocesses. This displacement suggests that the plasticity that characterizes us from ontogeny leaves the sex-gender dichotomy without effect, since it is implausible to trace pre-social biological attributes, on which the notion of sex itself would finally become intelligible. Subsequently, I will recover the idea of practical classes to consider that, combining it with the notion of bioprocesses, biomedical variables must be situated and specific, adjusted to the study of interest. I will show that some of the implications of the displacement I propose involve diluting cisnormative values, which marginalize trans corporealities.

Palabras llave : sex; gender; bioprocesses; practical classes.

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