Month: November 2018
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Self-identification and the asymmetry of sexual violence
In the UK the 2004 Gender Recognition Act (GRA) was a landmark in legal history. It provided a mechanism for a change of gender to be recognised in law, and to be reflected in key identity documents, such as birth certificates. To achieve this change, the individual had to submit to a detailed examination by…
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Changing the concept of “woman”
“Changing the concept of ‘woman’ will cause unintended harms” argues philosopher Kathleen Stock in the Economist, July 6 2018. Stock presents the case against self-identification, about which the UK Government has been carrying out a consultation exercise.
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Trans and gay identities
Attraction to members of one’s own sex and the desire to be of the other sex are rarely the result of a conscious choice, but there are important differences between trans people and gay people. For some trans people the desire to assume the opposite gender is fetishistic in origin; in this sense at least…
Mrs Benn 