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Recognition Against Liberation: On the UK’s Unreformed Gender Recognition Act
- Author(s):
- Christopher Griffin (see profile)
- Date:
- 2023
- Group(s):
- Gender Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Queer Theory Group
- Subject(s):
- Transgender people--Legal status, laws, etc., Transphobia--Law and legislation, Civil rights, Gender identity, Biopolitics, Social norms, Human rights
- Item Type:
- Blog Post
- Tag(s):
- politics of recognition, gender recognition, Gender Recognition Act 2004, anti-assimilationism, trans theory, history of transgender rights
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/s5d0-5283
- Abstract:
- In this short article I argue that the UK government’s decision not to update the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) is more than a missed opportunity. It weaponises the GRA, now an effective instrument of assimilation and containment. The failure to reform the GRA seems like a maintenance of the status quo, but given that the circumstances have significantly changed since 2004, the GRA now explicitly fails trans people, including nonbinary people – and in fact this is the intention. Rather than being a flawed attempt to improve trans lives, the GRA is a well-designed apparatus of biopolitical control that reinforces binary gender and cisnormativity, demanding assimilation in return for recognition.
- Metadata:
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- Published as:
- Online publication
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 months ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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