@article{ref1,
title="Philosophical problems with the gender-critical feminist argument against trans inclusion",
journal="Sage open",
year="2020",
author="Zanghellini, Aleardo",
volume="10",
number="2",
pages="e2158244020927029-e2158244020927029",
abstract="The Reform of the Gender Recognition Act: Government Consultation (2018) catalyzed a heated debate on transgender rights and trans inclusion in the United Kingdom. I start by explaining what the reforms to the U.K. system of gender recognition propose, why gender-critical feminists oppose them, and how other feminist academics have responded to their arguments. I then offer a more detailed philosophical critique of gender-critical trans-exclusionary feminist arguments. I argue that the gender-critical feminist case against trans women's access to women-only (or sex-segregated, or single-sex) spaces suffers from a number of fallacies, and introduces modes of argument that are at odds with well-established and sound uses of practical reason. I try to make sense of these problems with gender-critical feminist thought by appealing to the idea of presupposed paranoid structuralism. I also argue that gender-critical feminists' enthusiastic use of social media and allied online platforms may be implicated in generating some of these problems.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2158-2440",
doi="10.1177/2158244020927029",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244020927029"
}