The theoretical point of departure for this article is that the doing gender theory can be developed by a spatial analysis about the way people enter into a specific place. We call it a going gender analysis. Each time you enter a place you have to read the gender code, or understand the hided gender contract that dominate this place. Furthermore, you have to adjust to it. This means that you practice various gender performances in different geographical spaces and places.

This article elaborates on two aspects of this. The first is the way LGBT people make translocal migrations as a way to change their gender coding. A traditional understanding of this is that homosexuals tend to move to metropolitan areas from small towns and countryside in order to be able to practice their homosexuality.  One aspect of this is the way LGBT people goes gender when moving (or staying) in specific places. The second example analyse transnational migration and the going gender work people are forced to do when they move from one country to another. People, living in Sweden, with a background in a foreign country, have to change gender performance when they move between these countries. That is a going gender practice, which includes various bodily performances of spatial usage, clothing, talking, etc.