This dissertation examines the impact of Eurocentric transnormativity on Southeast Asian and Pacific gender conceptualisation through a systematic review with a decolonial lens. A theoretical framework is developed based on the social construction of gender, the globalisation of homonormativity and the existing differences between European transgender norms and Southeast Asian and Pacific gender diverse norms. The synthesis of the systematic review outlines a lack of geographic and demographic diversity in this field of research, identifies a decline in ‘gendering through labour’ and a rise in bioessentialism across Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and identifies respectability politics, the liberal-rights model and transmedicalism as factors which influence the spread of Eurocentric transnormativity in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
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