There is a lot to say about the current anti-trans sentiment and policy/legal shifts in the US. I will focus here on what critics call gender ideology, which they claim denies the reality of biological sex as binary and unchangeable, substituting for it a made-up concept of gender identity. On this view, trans people areContinue reading “Why Critics of “Gender Ideology” Are Wrong”
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On Legislating Sexuality, Gender, and Race(ism): Hannah Arendt and the Loss of Plurality
There are many possible responses to the myriad attempts to legislate gender, sexuality, and race across the country, including: Florida’s recently passed “Don’t Say Gay” bill (https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089221657/dont-say-gay-florida-desantis) Texas’s prosecution of gender-affirming care for minors as child abuse (https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/22/texas-transgender-teenagers-medical-care/) Numerous states’ attempts to ban the teaching of what has come to be called Critical Race TheoryContinue reading “On Legislating Sexuality, Gender, and Race(ism): Hannah Arendt and the Loss of Plurality”
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