{"title":"“There are only two genders – male and female…” An Analysis of Online Responses to Tasmania Removing ‘Gender’ from Birth Certificates","authors":"Louise Richardson‑Self","doi":"10.19164/ijgsl.v1i1.995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/ijgsl.v1i1.995","url":null,"abstract":"This article details and analyses some of the public online response to the Tasmanian Government’s decision to make the recording of gender on birth certificates an opt-in process. Tasmania is the first jurisdiction in Australia to make such a change, which aims to simplify the legal processes involved in affirming a person’s gender identity (including agender and non-binary status). The data set is comprised of comments posted on Facebook in response to The Australian newspaper’s coverage of this event; The Australian is Australia’s only truly national daily broadsheet. This article argues that the effect of this overwhelmingly negative ciscentric response, as revealed by the aesthetic of this digital social space, is the generation of an impression of Australians as trans- (and intersex-) averse. This risks undermining the basic good of assurance that transgender and intersex people ought to have: an assurance that they can inhabit public spaces and be treated with dignity and respect (cf. Waldron). To prevent this kind of hostile response in the future, we must find a way to communicate and make resonant to the general public what queer and feminist theorists have been arguing for quite some time: that sex and gender are not synonymous and that both gender and sex are social constructs.","PeriodicalId":384136,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129056993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"was ich bin","authors":"Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán","doi":"10.1023/A:1023214726739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023214726739","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384136,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129338476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Painting a Revolution: A Talk with Judy Chicago on Art, Gender, Feminism, and Power","authors":"L. Strong","doi":"10.1023/A:1020338930132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020338930132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384136,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121957780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Women's Museum of Dallas: A Visit","authors":"Harriette Andreadis","doi":"10.1023/A:1020390914202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020390914202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384136,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115295927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GLB + T?: Gender/Sexuality Movements and Transgender Collective Identity (De)Constructions","authors":"K. L Broad","doi":"10.1023/A:1020371328314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020371328314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384136,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies","volume":"352 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122760695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heavenly Monsters: The Politics of the Male Body in the Naked Issue of Attitude Magazine","authors":"G. Padva","doi":"10.1023/A:1020334829223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020334829223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384136,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies","volume":"14 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132071022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Hensley, Jeremy Wright, Mary Koscheski, Tammy Castle, R. Tewksbury
{"title":"Examining the Relationship Between Female Inmate Homosexual Behavior and Attitudes Toward Homosexuality and Homosexuals","authors":"C. Hensley, Jeremy Wright, Mary Koscheski, Tammy Castle, R. Tewksbury","doi":"10.1023/A:1020386813293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020386813293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384136,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117214275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When All That Is Solid Melts Into Language: Judith Butler and the Question of Matter","authors":"Vicki Kirby","doi":"10.1023/A:1020382712385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020382712385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384136,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116493987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“I Don't Go By Sean Patrick”: On-Line/Off-Line/Out Identity and SeanPatrickLive.com","authors":"Donald I. Snyder","doi":"10.1023/A:1015849201146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015849201146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384136,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126085252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suicidality and Sexual Orientation in Five Continents: Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America","authors":"R. Mathy","doi":"10.1023/A:1015853302054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015853302054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384136,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121620026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}