本研究以McKerrow（1989）的批判語藝（critical rhetoric）尤其是「命名的語藝」為分析架構，用以探索《珍的故事》如何在其變性敘事中體現關乎性身分與性慾望的性╱別意識。《珍的故事》是台灣第一本由跨性者、原發性變性慾者「珍」親自書寫並問世的自傳，更對1980年代台灣變性醫療的建制化有相當關鍵的啟發和影響。研究發現，珍的變性敘事於多處確實複製著主流文化情境所認可的性╱別價值觀，包括恐同與異性戀中心論。但其唯意志論的命名語藝則在某種程度上彰顯出所謂的「女人」、「真女」，本就是一個定義範疇不穩定的、無法整全的約定俗成。「酷兒化的順性愛」和「順性化的酷兒情」更挑戰了同性戀、異性戀的直接聯想與性╱別設定。對此本研究指出，珍在其術前、術後以假做真、當「珍」就好的肉身物質性、皮膚自我觀、本質本體感，除了揭櫫主流性╱別邏輯的排他性、有限性與缺乏彈性，更直指即使跨性者得以「做」一個有別於出生時被編派的不同的性╱別，也難以企及真正的、真實的歸屬和安居。跨性者作為性少數，其所體現的毋寧乃是從來就沒有確切字義（literal）的性身分、缺乏適切社會命名的性慾望，亦無法輕言被歸類的中間（in-between）尷尬的身體錯置狀態。《珍的故事》所體現的性╱別意識，正在這個看似隱晦曖昧實則昭然若揭的文本空間裏，展現其支配與自由批判並陳之聲╱身╱生。
This essay aims to explore transsexual narratives of sexual identity and sexualdesires in “The Chen Story” and elaborate the embodied sexual/gender consciousnessby McKerrow’s (1989) critical rhetoric, especially the nominalist rhetoric. “The ChenStory” is the first transsexual autobiography written by a male-to-female (MTF)transsexual “Chen,” who was self-proclaimed rather than being diagnosed as primarytranssexualism. This critical case also had a major impact on the institutionalization ofgender-affirming hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery in Taiwan in the 1980s.This essay found that Chen’s transsexual narratives indeed reproduced and reinforcedthe existed sex/gender ideology frequently by her rhetoric, including homophobia andheteronormativity. However, the volitionalist and nominalist rhetoric of Chenmeticulously resituated the so-called “woman” and “authentic womanhood” as equallyconstructive, and no more essentialist. Moreover, “queering straight sex” and“straightening out gay sex” as two different but related sex/gender tactics reciprocallyproblematized the literalization of homosexuality as well as heterosexuality. Based onresearch findings, this essay argues that the somatic material, skin ego andproprioception of Chen’s pre- and post-operational body could indicate the exclusivity,limitation and inflexibility of mainstream sex/gender matrix. This means transsexual’sstruggling for the authentic being (such as passing or transition through surgery andhormones) was doomed to be informed at all points by the impossibility and failure ofa longing for home, social belonging and social acceptability. This essay concludes that transsexual as the specific sexual minority, hir sexed embodiment might enact the literal ambivalence of cross-sexual identity, an uncatalogued cross-sexual desire and in-between intermediacy of bodily displacement. “The Chen Story” and its critical rhetoric, performed the critique of domination and critique of freedom practically in thisseemingly insidious but deployable textual space.