A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

By J. Serano, Whipping Girl. 2012

Subfields: AI Ethics, Fairness & Society

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Toward Gender-Inclusive Coreference Resolution (2019, background): “However, viewing gender purely through the lens of expression and accountability does not capture the first aspect: one’s experience of one’s own gender [Serano 2007].”
Are women adult human females? (2020, background): “…a girl erases how much being female made sense to me…I had dreams about being or becoming a girl well before I experienced any conscious desire to be female… (Serano 2007: 80–81) Serano moves indifferently between wanting (as a juvenile human) to be a girl and wanting to be female as if these…”
Hearing Gender: Voice-Based Gender Classification Processes and Transgender Health Inequality (2019, methodology): “Femininity is devalued in U.S. society (Kane 2006), for both cisgender and transgender women, and many of the patterns of violence and disadvantage faced by transgender women correspond to general social hostility toward femininity (Serano 2007).”
Trans self-identification and the language of neoliberal selfhood: Agency, power, and the limits of monologic discourse (2019, background): “…of Cher and Sonny Bono, who publically came out as a trans man in 2008 after being known as masculine-presenting lesbian for many years (see also Serano 2007 on the disparate attention paid to trans women versus trans men) or even Renee Richards, whose transition was met with more negative…”
Depression in Male-to-Female Transgender Ontarians: Results from the Trans PULSE Project (2011, background): “This finding would appear unexpected given that being unable to pass in one’s felt gender could mean facing possible humiliation, discrimination, and violence (Serano, 2007)—experiences that may contribute to poor mental health.”
Femmephobia: The Role of Anti-Femininity and Gender Policing in LGBTQ+ People’s Experiences of Discrimination (2019, unknown): “Arguably, the feminine joke is a product of viewing femininity as subhuman or an artifice, which gives way to its perception as being deceptive or its reduction to an object or performance (Serano 2007).”
Recommendations of transgender students, staff, and faculty in the USA for improving college campuses† (2014, unknown): “Building from Serano (2007), I am using the term institutional cisgenderism to label the behaviours, goals, norms, and values of higher education institutions that reflect an underlying assumption or belief that cisgender identities are more ‘normal’, ‘healthy’, and ‘real’ and therefore are treated…”
Comparing Trans-Spectrum and Same-sex-Attracted Youth in Australia: Increased Risks, Increased Activisms (2013, background): “These have included the concepts of cisgender or cissexual as labels for people who believe themselves to experience an “alignment” between their natal sex (the sex they were assigned at birth, as male or female) and their personal gender identity (Green, 2006; Serano, 2007).”
Debating "Alternative" Gender Identities: The Online Discourse Triggered by 2014 Life Ball Advertising Posters (2016, background): ““cisnormativity” (Bauer et al., 2009) and “cissexism” (Serano, 2007).”
Stacys, Beckys, and Chads: the construction of femininity and hegemonic masculinity within incel rhetoric (2020, background): “…scholarship, using terms such as: anti-femininity (Eguchi, 2011; Kilianski, 2003; Miller, 2015), trans-misogyny (Serano, 2007, 2013), effemimania (Serano, 2007), femi-negativity (Bishop et al., 2014), sissyphobia (Eguchi, 2011), anti-effeminacy (Sanchez & Vilain, 2012), slutshaming (Tanenbaum,…”
Regressing, Progressing, or Transgressing on the Small Screen? Transgender Characters on U.S. Scripted Television Series (2017, background): “Studies of the talk show genre documented stigmatization of transgender embodiment (Gamson, 2001; Riggs, 2014; Serano, 2007).”
Evaluating inclusive gender identity measures for use in quantitative psychological research (2018, background): “2018.1515167) © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group sex at birth; Serano, 2007).1 Moreover, some respondents with non-binary genders (those whose gender identity does not fit the common cultural binary of women and men; Barker, 2016) are unable to report their gender identity…”
Out in the Classroom: Transgender Student Experiences at a Large Public University (2015, background): “(Serano, 2007).”
Cisgenderism in psychology: pathologising and misgendering children from 1999 to 2008 (2012, background): “More recently, other authors have addressed erasure (Namaste, 2000), maligning language (Winters, 2008) and pathologising (Namaste, 2000; Serano, 2007; Winters, 2008) of participants’ genders.”
Toward Gender-Inclusive Coreference Resolution: An Analysis of Gender and Bias Throughout the Machine Learning Lifecycle* (2021, background): “However, viewing gender purely through the lens of expression and accountability does not capture the ﬁrst aspect: one’s experience of one’s own gender (Serano 2007).”