Beyond Trans, Heath Fogg Davis
Beyond Trans, Heath Fogg Davis
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Beyond Trans
Does Gender Matter?

Author: Heath Fogg Davis

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 6 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/17/2017

Synopsis

Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do they serve a real purpose or are these places and forms just mechanisms of exclusion?

Heath Fogg Davis offers an impassioned call to rethink the usefulness of dividing the world into not just Male and Female categories but even additional categories of Transgender and gender fluid. Davis, himself a transgender man, explores the underlying gender-enforcing policies and customs in American life that have led to transgender bathroom bills, college admissions controversies, and more, arguing that it is necessary for our society to take real steps to challenge the assumption that gender matters.

He examines four areas where we need to re-think our sex-classification systems: sex-marked identity documents such as birth certificates, drivers licenses and passports; sex-segregated public restrooms; single-sex colleges; and sex-segregated sports.

About Heath Fogg Davis

Heath Fogg Davis is associate professor of political science at Temple University. He is the author of The Ethics of Transracial Adoption.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kara on April 10, 2020

This is the book on transgender rights, gender identity and expression, and policy that you never knew you wanted. Welcome to the latest instalment of “$#A$^% am I ever behind at reviewing my NetGalley books”. Today I review Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?, out at the beginning of June from New Yor......more

Goodreads review by Liza on December 30, 2017

I liked the book more and more when reading it. It started with very straightforward things, SEPTA buses having a gender specific passes. Constant questions and harassment happen to anyone that wasn't very clearly in the right gender. The original reason was to prevent fraud (husbands and wives shar......more

Goodreads review by Dawnie on June 05, 2018

An important book pointing out all the issues caused by having gender specifications. I think that this book is one of those book that points out a lot of issues that a lot of people struggle with. Why do we need to give our sex to apply for a job? Why is there a necessity to state your sex when app......more

Goodreads review by Becky on April 14, 2021

Short and sweet, so well argued and thought-provoking. There's so much we can do to dream up better ways to serve everyone's needs around gender in society. I’ve given a ton of thought to gender and how it operates in society, but Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis was still radica......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on December 30, 2017

This book is written by a trans man and activist. His argument is that we as a society do not need to and should not divide the world into the binary we know as gender. He tackles four topics: gender markers on documents, sex-segregated bathrooms, all male and all female colleges, and sex-segregated......more

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