Getting dirty and coming clean: Sex education and the problem of expertise
Getting dirty and coming clean: Sex education and the problem of expertise
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10.1080/03626784.2021.1947732
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发表时间：
2021-06-30
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1.7
通讯作者：
Gilbert, Jen
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作者：
Gilbert, Jen
这篇文章讲述了我在人权法庭担任专家证人的经历。在2018-2019年，一名六年级的跨性别女孩，只被称为AB，起诉加拿大安大略省政府撤销了一项针对性别和性身份的进步性教育课程。在作为AB的倡导者工作时，我在大学内外都努力与自己的专业知识保持联系。在描述准备和在法庭作证的过程时，我重点谈到两个紧张点。首先，我借鉴了Irvine（2014）关于“肮脏的工作”的研究，考虑性和性别学者清理他们的研究以消除性的耻辱的方式。要成为一名性和性别专家，我需要与性的不确定性进行协商，这对酷儿研究者来说是一个复杂的过程。其次，我考虑课程如何成为这种清理工作的一部分。在围绕儿童和青少年性教育的争议中，进步的倡导者通过健康和福祉的话语对性教育课程进行消毒，从而对抗保守活动家的道德主义和经常的宗教言论。虽然我认识到这一立场的力量，但我提出了这样的问题，即这种策略如何忽视了年轻人制定和重新制定课程的方式，超出了教师，家长和政治家的意图。
This article recounts my experience serving as an expert witness at a Human Rights Tribunal. In 2018-2019, a grade six trans girl, known only as AB, sued the Ontario provincial government in Canada for revoking a progressive sex education curriculum that addressed gender and sexual identity. While working as an advocate for AB, I wrestled with my own relationship to expertise both within the university and beyond its walls. While describing the process of preparing and testifying before the Tribunal, I focus on two points of tension. First, I draw on Irvine's (2014) study on "dirty work" to consider the ways sexuality and gender scholars clean up their research to remove the stigma of sex. To be a sexuality and gender expert requires that I negotiate my proximity to the uncertainties of sexuality-a process complicated for the queer researcher. Second, I consider how the curriculum becomes part of this clean-up effort. In controversies surrounding the sex education of children and youth, progressive advocates counter the moralistic and often religious rhetoric of conservative activists by sterilizing the sex education curriculum through discourses of health and well-being. While I recognize the power of this position, I raise questions about how this strategy neglects the ways youth make and remake the curriculum, exceeding the intentions of teachers, parents, and politicians.