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Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?
Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? | Heath Fogg Davis
8 posts | 5 read | 9 to read
Goes beyond transgender to question the need for gender classification.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, driver's licenses and passports; sex-segregated public restrooms; single-sex colleges; and sex-segregated sports. Speaking from his own experience and drawing upon major cases of sex discrimination in the news and in the courts, Davis presents a persuasive case for challenging how individuals are classified according to sex and offers concrete recommendations for alleviating sex identity discrimination and sex-based disadvantage. For anyone in search of pragmatic ways to make our world more inclusive, Davis' recommendations provide much-needed practical guidance about how to work through this complex issue. A provocative call to action, Beyond Trans pushes us to think how we can work to make America truly inclusive of all people.
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kera_11
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This book is very very good. Pointing out 4 areas that sex-classification should be removed, and how doing so, would bring us closer to intersectional gender equality for all.
He provides tangible suggestions for how to make these changes happen and resources to help accomplish them all. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone.

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SkeletonKey
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Finished this audiobook and really enjoyed it. At first I was resistant to some of the ideas but I realize as the author continued how little sense a lot of the gendered infrastructures make. I look forward to a future where these things matter less and less and am thankful for the people who can see it more clearly now.

#transbooks #transbook #lgbtq #gender

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SkeletonKey
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Currently listening to this on the flight home.

#lgbtq #transbook #transbooks

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LibrarianRenee
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Just finished. Would highly recommend this book to anyone.

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lovelybookshelf
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Wow, this was FANTASTIC! Intersectional, radical, and incredibly thought-provoking. Fogg Davis doesn't just point out flaws and discriminatory practices when it comes to gender definitions/markers, he makes a case that removing bureaucratic administration of gender is the only way to achieve gender equality. Then he *actually presents tangible solutions* and ways to do so, complete with resources for businesses, schools, non-profits, etc. 5 stars!

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Bookish_Predator
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Just been approved for these 3 books on #NetGalley so very excited to read them all especially Beyond Trans!! Yay!!