生きづらさのオートエスノグラフィー: 性別違和を伴う勤労中高年ASD（自閉症スペクトラム障害）者

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It was in an article published in the July 2018 issue of the conservative magazine Shincho 45 that Mio Sugita, a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party（LDP）, described LGBT（lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender）people as “unproductive.” The sensational statement has caused predictable controversy and drawn a lot of attention from various fields. However, this statement is not the only problem the article reveals, but there are much worse and much more problematic descriptions found here in the article, based on misunderstandings and ignorance. Sugita wrote;“Are LGBT people really discriminated against so much? Even if one of my friends is gay or lesbian, I don’t mind it at all. It is how the person is capable or not that matters. I think the same is true of most people,” “I hear their hardship of living is due not so much to social discrimination they suffer from, but to the lack of understanding of their parents,” “There are men and women in the world. That’s enough, isn’t it?” I am 53 years old now. I was diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder at the age of 38. I was also diagnosed with Per vasive Developmental Disorder（now called Autism Spectrum Disorder）at the age of 46. In this paper, I refer to the relationships between LGBT and ASD and, by detecting Orientalist stereotypes in the minds of non-LGBT or non-autistic people, try to confirm those discriminations found in Sugita’s article resulting from ignorance, indifference and incomprehension of the majority. To analyze those discriminatory discourses, I employ an autoethnographic method, or a kind of selfnarrative approach which emphasizes the social context of discourses. The remarks of the LGBT participant, who attended the meeting of Handai（Osaka University）ASD and Transgender Café held on September 1, 2018, are quoted as a strong evidence.

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