Gender kaleidoscope: Diffracting legal approaches to reform gender binary
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This article explores the import of current gender legal reforms. Through analysis of legal processes of self-determination and inclusion of non-binary gender labels, it critiques the hypostatizing tendency that marks our current understanding of gender and limits the scope of legal reforms. My insight is that reforms of legal gender status are bound to reproduce a conservative system of recognition because they rely on a substantialised conception of gender, one that frames gender as a given entity (or a given set of entities) along which our identities organise. In the conclusion, I discuss alternative forms of conceiving legal gender, gesturing toward a more relational and multifarious legal approach.
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