Gender Identity
What It Is and Why It Matters
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 July 2025
- ISBN 9780198947981
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 240x165x28 mm
- Weight 694 g
- Language English 625
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Short description:
Rach Cosker-Rowland gives a detailed philosophical account of gender identity that draws on a variety of trans and non-binary people's testimony and the author's experiences as a trans person, explaining what gender identities are in a way that can help people to understand their own and which can demystify those of trans and non-binary people.
MoreLong description:
Gender Identity: What It Is and Why It Matters is the first book in philosophy to focus 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? In the first part of the book, Rach Cosker-Rowland develops a new account of our gender identities as the genders that seem to best fit us. Supported by trans testimony, this subjective fit account explains why gender identities deserve respect, discusses how we can discover our gender identity, and argues for why this is practically important. It also provides an overview of cis and trans, and non-binary and binary, gender identities.
In the second part of the book, a new view of trans rights to gender marker change, legal gender recognition, gender-affirming healthcare, and sporting participation and participation is developed. Cosker-Rowland presents an integrity-based account, showing how these trans rights arise from basic liberal rights to live with integrity, to live in line with your judgements of how you ought to live, and what a good or meaningful 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.
Finally, Cosker-Rowland addresses a wide range of gender-critical feminist philosophers' views against trans rights and shows that these arguments fail.
Rach Cosker-Rowland's subjective fit account of gender identity is both original and philosophically powerful.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part 1. Gender Identity
The Subjective Fit Account of Gender Identity
Four Virtues of the Subjective Fit Account
Gender Identities and Respect
Objections
Part 2. The Rights and Moral Reasons that Gender Identities Generate
Freedom of Gender
Other Gender Freedoms and Alternative Approaches
Rights to Gender-Affirming Healthcare
Trans Rights to Puberty Blockers
Trans Rights in Sport
The Wrongs of Misgendering
Gender-Critical Objections
Scepticism about Gender Identity Does Gender Identity Really Matter?
