Feminism and the Gender Recognition Act 2004
Feminism and the Gender Recognition Act 2004
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女权主义和性别承认法案 2004
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2005
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R. Sandland
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R. Sandland
本文认为，首先，变性欲的法律建构是一个利益问题，不仅是跨性别群体成员的利益问题，也是包括女权主义者在内的所有性别研究学生的利益问题。然后，本文从女权主义的角度出发，结合最近有关跨性别者权利的判例法，解释和分析了《2004年性别承认法》的关键方面。有人认为，2004年的法案是一个保守的举动，它试图通过煽动一种正式“承认”只有男性和/或女性的制度，来否认变性欲症对性别二元体系构成的威胁。然而，该法案构建公共/私人划分和精神/身体关系的方式有可能在法律上承认主体地位，这可能以各种方式“超越”目前正统的二元体系。因此，本文可以作为对性别的法律（重新）建构、性别/性别关系以及性别保守建构的普遍倾向的个案研究。
This paper argues, first, that the legal construction of transsexualism is a matter of interest, not only to members of the trans community, but to all students of gender, including feminists. The paper then proceeds to explain and analyse, using feminist perspectives, key aspects of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in the light of the recent caselaw concerning the rights of trans persons. The 2004 Act, it is argued, is a conservative move, which attempts to deny the threat transsexualism poses to the binary system of gender, by instigating a system to formally ‘recognise’ only men and or women. However, the way in which the Act constructs the public/private divide and the mind/body relation carries potential for legal recognition of subject positions which may in a variety of ways be ‘beyond’ the binary system that is currently orthodox. The paper can as such be read as a case study in the legal (re)construction of gender, the gender/sex relation, and the widespread tendency to construct gender conservatively.