Identity, Ascription and Justice: From Materially Based Identities to Nomenclatural Identities
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This essay deals with one of the hottest debates in contemporary feminism: the dispute between those who advocate the recognition of trans identities through gender self-determination and those who argue that the latter represents a threat to the prevailing legal frameworks. In this text, both conceptions are reconstructed using the tools of analytical metaphysics and gender studies. Thus, a distinction is made between materially grounded identities and self-ascriptive nomenclatural identities. My central aim, beyond offering such a characterization, is to examine which of these conceptions is most compatible with a conception of justice that puts individual liberties at the center.
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