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Gender’s wider stakes: lay attitudes to legal gender reform
journal contribution
posted on 2020-11-11, 13:48 authored by Elizabeth PeelElizabeth Peel, Hannah NewmanThe Future of Legal Gender (FLaG) project is interested in examining the implications, for a wide range of stakeholders, of changing how legal sex/gender is regulated in England and Wales. In this article, we explore the views of ‘the wider public’ as manifest in responses to our ‘Attitudes to Gender’ survey (n=3,101), which ran October to December 2018. Generally, respondents were invested in the status quo regarding a binary two-sex registration of gender close to birth. We discuss this finding with reference to cisgenderism and endosexism, focusing particularly on being critical of‘gender’ and foregrounding biological sex, and views for and against self-identifying gender. In tandem, we also provide a critical commentary on the methodological positives and pitfalls associated with online survey research on a ‘topical’ issue. We suggest that cisgenderism could provide a less individualised framework for understanding different people’s hopes and worries with regard to both the current legal gender framework, and the possibility of reform.
Funding
ESRC Reforming Legal Gender (Peel) : 330 22520
History
School
- Social Sciences and Humanities
Department
- Communication and Media
Published in
Feminists at LawVolume
10Issue
2Publisher
University of KentVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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© The AuthorsPublisher statement
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by the University of Kent under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY 3.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. This paper was initially published in Feminists at Law, 10 (2).Acceptance date
2020-06-16Publication date
2020-11-08Copyright date
2020ISSN
2046-9551Publisher version
Language
- en