Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7026-6494

Date of Award

5-8-2020

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Philosophy

First Advisor

Christie Hartley

Second Advisor

S.M. Love

Abstract

Gender identity is usually thought of in psychologistic terms. But thinking about gender identity in this way often undermines the political and social agencies of queer and trans individuals who rely on the concept the most. To ameliorate this problem, I argue that we should endorse a conceptual distinction between gender identity and what I call gender orientation. The former is an agent’s sincerely self-ascribed gender categorization(s), and the latter is an agent’s psychological relation to gendered social practices.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.57709/17492330

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