Endless Sex: The Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Persistence of a Legal Category
Endless Sex: The Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Persistence of a Legal Category
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无尽的性：2004 年性别承认法案和法律类别的持续存在
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2007
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Andrew N. Sharpe
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Andrew N. Sharpe
本文对2004年《性别承认法》的观点提出质疑，认为该法在法律对男女区别的理解中涉及从性概念到性别概念的明确转变。虽然该法确实朝着性别的方向发展，而且表面上是通过放弃法律的承认的外科手术先决条件而明显地发展，但可以说该法保留并运用了性别的概念。此外，它将被认为是保留的性别的概念不仅是解剖学的理解，但在生物学意义上的性别。在这方面，《性别承认法》可被视为体现了性别与性之间的紧张关系。此外，有人认为，这种紧张关系可以解释为，在改革的时刻，复制性别秩序和将婚姻和异性恋与同性恋隔离开来的相反的法律的愿望没有得到解决。
This paper challenges a view of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 as involving an unequivocal shift from the concept of sex to the concept of gender in law’s understanding of the distinction between male and female. While the Act does move in the direction of gender, and ostensibly in an obvious way through abandoning surgical preconditions for legal recognition, it will be argued that the Act retains and deploys the concept of sex. Moreover, it will be argued that the concept of sex retained is not merely an anatomical understanding, but sex in a biological sense. In this respect the Gender Recognition Act can be viewed as embodying a tension between gender and sex. Further, it is contended that this tension is explicable in terms of irresolution of contrary legal desires to reproduce the gender order and to insulate marriage and heterosexuality from homosexuality in the moment of reform.