Abstract In the last twenty years, Japanese transgender people have acquired increased visibility in mainstream Japanese society. Notwithstanding that, female-to-male (FTM) trans people continue to be misunderstood by the Japanese public, and largely underrepresented in Anglophone academic scholarship. This paper therefore seeks to account for one aspect of FTM cultural life in present-day Japan that has largely remained invisible to mainstream society. Drawing on my fieldwork at FTM drinking parties in Tokyo between 2013 and 2019, I demonstrate how seemingly trivial drinking events not only play an important role in fostering a sense of community among their participants, but also enable the claiming of transgender cultural citizenship in a conservative state like Japan, which only recognizes a narrowly defined notion of transgender.

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Unqueer queers——日本女性对男性跨性别者的酒会和文化公民权谈判

摘要 在过去的二十年里，日本跨性别者在日本主流社会中的知名度越来越高。尽管如此，女性对男性（FTM）的跨性别者继续被日本公众误解，并且在英语学术奖学金中的代表性不足。因此，本文试图解释当今日本 FTM 文化生活的一个方面，而该方面在很大程度上仍不为主流社会所见。借鉴我在 2013 年至 2019 年间在东京 FTM 饮酒派对的实地调查，我展示了看似微不足道的饮酒活动如何不仅在培养参与者的社区意识方面发挥重要作用，而且还能够在保守派中宣称跨性别文化公民身份像日本这样的国家，它只承认一个狭义的跨性别概念。