Abstract
The limits and discoursive tools for constructing gender identity in the Czech Republic of these days are addressed in this chapter. According to the author, the general understanding of sex is based on the medical discourse.
Therefore, a sub-chapter considering sexuology, as a science dealing with the human sex, is included in the text. In the following part, Foucault's postulates regarding the influence of the expert medical discourse on human identity are confronted with the approach of Giddens.
The late modern age is perceived by Giddens as a period of multiple discourses, which prompts for choices between alternatives, thereby training one in systematic reflexivity. The second aspect of the late modern age is represented by the separation of sexuality from reproduction, which results in the disruption of the gender stereotypes complex as postulated by sexuology.
Subsequently, the situation is illustrated with the case of Míša, a transsexual the autobiography of whom constructed during an interview with the author was analyzed ethnomethodologically.