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Being a woman and wanting to be a woman

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In this paper I provide a new way of thinking of questions using an expanded space of FDE-worlds/state space. This allows both for non-exclusive and non-exhaustive answers to questions concerning one's gender identity. Further, and most crucially for the purposes of this paper, it allows for a new, more general definition of question inclusion that allows for the identification of a new form of hermeneutical injustice. This form of injustice, I argue, affects trans people by keeping them in a prolonged state of gender questioning and confusion in which they only grasp the part of the question Am I X gender identity? that corresponds to the question Do I want to be X gender identity?.

Source: The Australasian Journal of Logic

DOI: 10.26686/ajl.v22i4.8230

Author: Francisca Silva

Institution: University of St Andrews

Language: English

Topic: Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: University of St Andrews