New Categories Are Not Enough

By Laurel Westbrook, Aliya Saperstein. 2015

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Challenging the Cisgender/Transgender Binary: Nonbinary People and the Transgender Label (2020, background): “Problematically, people are not given the option to provide such clarification on surveys and forms that ask them to indicate whether they are cisgender or transgender (see Westbrook and Saperstein 2015).”
Gender (mis)measurement: Guidelines for respecting gender diversity in psychological research (2019, methodology): “For example, researchers often mix sex and gender terminology in their measures and research reports (Westbrook & Saperstein, 2015).”
What is gender, anyway: a review of the options for operationalising gender (2020, background): “Despite this conflation, sex seems to be a poor proxy for gender, because it is incorrect to assume that sex precedes and determines gender (Bittner & Goodyear-Grant, 2017; Butler, 1990; Fausto-Sterling, 2012; Westbrook & Saperstein, 2015).”
Evaluating inclusive gender identity measures for use in quantitative psychological research (2018, background): “…to implementing inclusive gender identity measures is that the number of transgender participants in many studies is too small to allow for meaningful statistical analysis (Frohard-Dourlent et al., 2016; Gender Identity in U.S. Surveillance [GenIUSS] Group, 2014; Westbrook & Saperstein, 2015).”
Hearing Gender: Voice-Based Gender Classification Processes and Transgender Health Inequality (2019, background): “In examining gender-based inequalities, categories such as “man” and “woman,” or even “transgender man” and “transgender woman,” are also imprecise when measuring gender stratification (Smith 2009; Westbrook and Saperstein 2015), but most research on gender inequality continues to be based on them.”