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Feminist and trans perspectives on identity and the UK Gender Recognition Act

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The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Pages: 671 - 687

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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/1369148116637998

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This article analyses Sheila Jeffreys’ criticisms of the UK’s Gender Recognition Act (GRA) and her critique of trans identities. Placing her work within a wider radical feminist perspective, I suggest that her arguments against the GRA are based upon a problematic understanding of sex and gender. In...

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Published in: The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
ISSN: 1369-1481 1467-856X
Published: 2016
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