things I wanted to ask or say*
Nov. 14th, 2007 07:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrienmundiIf conceptual inclusion is a human right, and gender is used to conceptually exclude many people, wouldn't questioning gender itself be a logical place to begin, rather than changing the definitions?
You present a gender continuum as a solution to the either/or only model of binary gender, but don't you see how any linear model like a continuum necessarily privileges the extremes as absolute and definitional?
You speak of the failure of moral imagination, and then go on to say that you cannot envision social life without gender; couldn't this be a case of the failure of your own moral imagination?
*To David Ozar, bioethicist, who spoke at Agnes Scott on "A Basic Human Right to Conceptual Inclusion: Bringing Transgender and Intersex Persons into Our Thinking"
You present a gender continuum as a solution to the either/or only model of binary gender, but don't you see how any linear model like a continuum necessarily privileges the extremes as absolute and definitional?
You speak of the failure of moral imagination, and then go on to say that you cannot envision social life without gender; couldn't this be a case of the failure of your own moral imagination?
*To David Ozar, bioethicist, who spoke at Agnes Scott on "A Basic Human Right to Conceptual Inclusion: Bringing Transgender and Intersex Persons into Our Thinking"
