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Activists and experts have also collaborated with the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, to remove the trans-related categories in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) from the chapter titled “Mental and Behavioral Disorders” to “Sexual Health,” under a new code, “gender incongruence” (Suess Schwend 2020). This includes making over legal gender recognition processes within a self-determination model and increasing the available gender markers for official documents beyond male/female (ILGA World 2020). Trans political struggles across European countries have successfully intervened in the legal and medical regulation of the borders of gender embodiment/identification.

The introduction to this special issue comes in a time of global transformation and, simultaneously, amidst severe reinforcement of the borders of knowledge, embodiment, life and death, movement, and social value that often work to secure the territories of racialized and gendered civility within Europe, and indeed worldwide.