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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