From this point that institutions rely too heavily on codified identities, leading them to re-identify populations in ways that counter individual’s meanings (124), all informed by a “politics of accommodation” that informs a “theoretical split…(that is) problematic in that they are unable to account for…(trans) subjectivities” (CITE). Valentine picks up this tension is the crafting of his own ethnography, an ‘impulse to open up transgender for both theoretical and political purposes, and the recognition that in some cases, the work of many of my activist informants aims to do just the opposite”
From this point that institutions rely too heavily on codified identities, leading them to re-identify populations in ways that counter individual’s meanings (124), all informed by a “politics of accommodation” that informs a “theoretical split…(that is) problematic in that they are unable to account for…(trans) subjectivities” (CITE). Valentine picks up this tension is the crafting of his own ethnography, an ‘impulse to open up transgender for both theoretical and political purposes, and the recognition that in some cases, the work of many of my activist informants aims to do just the opposite”