Gender identity : what it is and why it matters
Rach Cosker-Rowland
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
| Omfang | xiv, 352 sider
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| Opplysninger | "What It Is and Why It Matters is the first book in philosophy focusing on gender identity and transgender rights. To be trans is to have a gender identity different from the gender you were assigned at birth. But what is it to have a gender identity? The first part of the book develops a new account of our gender identities as the genders that seems to us to fit us. This subjective fit account of gender identity fits with trans testimony, explains why gender identities deserve respect, explains how we can discover our gender identity, explains why gender identities are practically important, and provides a good account of both cis and trans and non-binary and binary gender identities. The second part of the book develops a new view of trans rights to gender marker change, legal gender recognition, gender-affirming healthcare, and sporting participation and accommodation. It develops an integrity-based account on which these trans rights arise from basic liberal rights to live with integrity, to live in line with your judgments of how you ought to live, and what a good or meaning life for you involves. Rights to live with integrity ground basic liberal rights to freedom of religious belief and expression. This book argues that they also ground trans rights. The second part of the book also addresses a wide range of gender-critical feminist philosophers' arguments against trans rights and shows that these arguments fail"--
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| ISBN | 9780198947981
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