Earlier this year, the Institute of Art and Ideas invited scholars and activists to consider the question, How Can Philosophy Help Us Understand Transgender Experiences? Following the publication of this article, three of the authors withdrew their contributions and issued a statement of retraction outlining their reasons for doing so. In this third article, one of the original contributors Holly Lawford-Smith responds to arguments raised in the retraction with her own perspective on the debate around gender.
Gender as Identity vs Gender as Norms
Can both concepts exist side-by-side?
11th September 2019
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Tom Walker 2 December 2019
I have been watching this issue emerge with considerable dismay. Seeing that rational respectful discourse being pushed aside by those who only tolerate their or similar positions. Along with deplatforming, violent campus protests it seems that disagreement with the "proper" thoughts are being treated as heresy. As Orwell said "right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking will be punished", so it has come to be. Keep up the good fight, this old guy is on your corner.
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