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Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do they serve a real purpose or are these places and forms just mechanisms of exclusion?
Heath Fogg Davis offers an impassioned call to rethink the usefulness of dividing the world into not just Male and Female categories but even additional categories of Transgender and gender fluid. Davis, himself a transgender man, explores the underlying gender-enforcing policies and customs in American life that have led to transgender bathroom bills, college admissions controversies, and more, arguing that it is necessary for our society to take real steps to challenge the assumption that gender matters.
He examines four areas where we need to re-think our sex-classification systems: sex-marked identity documents such as birth certificates, drivers licenses and passports; sex-segregated public restrooms; single-sex colleges; and sex-segregated sports.
© 2017 Tantor Media, Inc. (Luisterboek): 9781541487185
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 17 oktober 2017
4.1
Non-fictie
Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do they serve a real purpose or are these places and forms just mechanisms of exclusion?
Heath Fogg Davis offers an impassioned call to rethink the usefulness of dividing the world into not just Male and Female categories but even additional categories of Transgender and gender fluid. Davis, himself a transgender man, explores the underlying gender-enforcing policies and customs in American life that have led to transgender bathroom bills, college admissions controversies, and more, arguing that it is necessary for our society to take real steps to challenge the assumption that gender matters.
He examines four areas where we need to re-think our sex-classification systems: sex-marked identity documents such as birth certificates, drivers licenses and passports; sex-segregated public restrooms; single-sex colleges; and sex-segregated sports.
© 2017 Tantor Media, Inc. (Luisterboek): 9781541487185
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 17 oktober 2017
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Hannah
20 jan 2024
The author has a point where he pleads for a more relaxed attitude to what gender one is, for example in recreational sports. But he grossly downplays the differences between the sexes, the uncomfortable feelings of being unsafe that women well may have when someone with male genitals changes in a female changing room. Women-only spaces are there for a reason. And while we should not be overly anxious to keep all of these no-matter-what, it seems unfair to non-trans women to open up every woman-only space to people who identify as trans women. Especially if they still have the genitalia they were born with. With gender roles, we can experiment, go on adventures, and play. Our sex is a biological reality, and at its core it cannot be changed.
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