FEM 3104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Trans Woman, Nail Polish, Relief Society

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 3104
• Professor: Darren O' Toole

Document Summary

Trans lives and the disruption of legal and social norms. Crenshaw intersectionality as inhabiting multiple categories. Using a single issue lens is unable to address intersectional claims. Trans identities push us from thinking about multiple categories to challenging categorization. Trans identities disrupt the sex dichotomy deeply entrenched in social institutions and administrative and criminal regulation (law) Crenshaw shifted feminism from a single issue to an intersectional lens. Feminism sometimes takes a binary lens towards gender. Example feminists who lead the rape release society: trans lives were outside of their realm of understanding, saw someone as a male imposter and not a trans person. Legal question address the mutual relationship between normative discourse and administrative regulation: turkel. Exclusively heterosexual marriage used as a tool to police gender norms. Post-operative trans women accepted as a sub-category of discrimination, recognized as women by csc. Biology was used to determine whether the marriage was legal.