Development and gender people: I've been brave enough to write an article on sex and 'gender identity' Will you be brave enough to tweet it? Its a slippery slope, before you know it we might be having serious discussions on the topic
https://medium.com/@MForstater/international-development-lets-talk-about-sex-eb9de927c787 …
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Replying to @MForstater
Great to see your article,
@MForstater. Oxfam uses the gender bread person in its gender transformative research framework. 1/2pic.twitter.com/gKTxAFohVi
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Nooooo. The gingerbread person is awful. Women do not have 'pink' brains!https://rebeccarc.com/2016/01/06/gender-is-not-a-binary/ …
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Replying to @MForstater
ah that's great - and you are RIGHT! I'm colour blind in that sense but see it now. But it was useful to unpack some of the different concepts.
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Its 'useful' insofar as saying gender identity, gender expression, sex & sexuality are different things. But beyond that it is misleading in so many ways.1) sex is not 'assigned at birth' it is observed. 2) there is no spectrum of maleness & femaleness in terms of anatomical sex
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....and 3) it states that people who are women have brains full of woman-ness and people who are men have brains full of man-ness....... which seems to be reinforcing sexist stereotypes rather than challenging them.
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