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A special issue of Controversial Ideas (ISSN 2694-5991).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020)
Special Issue InformationThis is a special issue following up the conference on Censorship in the Sciences held in January 2025
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1 Department of Philosophy, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
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Controversial Ideas 2025, 5(1), 1; doi: 10.35995/jci05010005
Received: 30 Aug 2023 / Accepted: 14 Feb 2025 / Published: 30 Apr 2025
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Gender transition enables some born men and women to escape from the constraints gender norms impose. But the adoption of gender transition as a remedy for gender misfits who cannot comply with their assigned gender norms is a conservative strategy that does not challenge the imposition of social norms that oppress gender misfits, of whom I am one. Trans individuals, who identify with and want to be identified as members of a sex other than their sex assigned of birth, should have the option of gender transition and, arguably, be recognized as members of their chosen sex afterwards. But gender misfits who are not trans should not have to transition to escape from expectations, obligation, and restrictions assigned on the basis of biological sex, with which they cannot comply.
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