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"By providing criteria for who can transition and how they can do it, the sex/gender/sexuality system is both altered and maintained"
(Westbrook and Schilt 2014, 53.
Is it as simple as, "you present as A, so you are A?"
The authors argue that for trans people, the space in which there is discrimination dictates how others will determine their gender.
"bodies (mainly the presence or absence of the penis) matter for determining gender in women’s spaces
"by using changeable bodily aspects to determine gender, the basic premises of the 'sex/gender/sexuality system' (Seidman 1995) are maintained" (Westbrook and Schilt 2014, 35.)
because of cultural ideologies of women as inherently vulnerable and in need of protection (Hollander 2001)
that reproduce gender inequality under the guise of protecting women"
(Westbrook and Schilt 2014, 35).
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What determines a man?
What determines a woman?