scholarly journals ‘I live with doubleness’: Non-Binary Gender Identity and Othering in Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Schuster Kit
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Binary Gender

scholarly journals The P600 for singular “they”: How the brain reacts when John decides to treat themselves to sushi.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grusha Prasad ◽  
Joanna Morris
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Processing Effort ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Binary Gender ◽  
The Way

There has been increased awareness that individuals need not have a binary gender identity (i.e., male or female), but rather, gender identities exist on a spectrum. With this increased awareness, there has also been an increase in the use of they as a singular pronoun when referring to individuals with a non-binary gender identity. Has the processing of singular they changed along with a change in its usage? Previous studies have demonstrated that sentences in which they is co-indexed with singular antecedents, are judged acceptable and are easy to process, but only if the antecedents are non-referential and/or have ambiguous gender; co-indexing they with referential antecedents with unambiguous gender (e.g., Mary) results in lower acceptability ratings and greater processing effort. We investigated whether participants who frequently interacted with individuals with a non-binary gender identity and/or identified as having a non-binary gender themselves would process sentences in which themselves was co-indexed with singular antecedents similarly. We found a significant P600 effect for sentences in which themselves was co-indexed with singular referential antecedents with unambiguous gender, but failed to find a P600 effect when the antecedents were non-referential and/or had an ambiguous gender. This pattern of results is consistent with behavioural results from previous studies, suggesting that the change in the usage of singular they has not resulted in a corresponding change in the way in which this pronoun is processed.

Gender diversity and non-binary presentations in young people attending the United Kingdom’s National Gender Identity Development Service

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jos Twist ◽  
Nastasja M de Graaf
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Intrinsic Factors ◽  
Gender Expression ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Development Service ◽  
Binary Gender

There has been a recent rise in the number of people who hold a non-binary gender identity. However, the proportion of young people attending gender services who identify as non-binary has not yet been investigated. This article presents the findings from a pilot study of newly designed questionnaire, the Gender Diversity Questionnaire, which included questions about gender identity and gender expression. Responses from 251 adolescents attending the United Kingdom’s National Gender Identity Development Service between June 2016 and February 2017 are reported here. The majority, 56.9%, of young people identified as trans, 29.3% identified as a binary gender (male or female), 11% identified as non-binary and 1.2% as agender. There were no significant differences in self-defined identities based on assigned gender or age. However, once young people were separated into these groups, some of them were very small; thus, a larger sample is required. In terms of aspects of gender expression that were important to the young people, the data formed five themes – name and pronouns, external appearance, the body, intrinsic factors and ‘other’. Strengths and weaknesses of the research are discussed as well as future work that will be conducted.

Non-binary gender identity and transgendence beyond psychiatric discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol LII (2) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Vladimir D. Mendelevich
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Binary Approach ◽  
Psychiatric Discourse ◽  
Gender Identity Disorders ◽  
Binary Gender

An analysis of the problem of non-binary gender identity and transgender shows that the professional position of psychiatrists and psychologists is often based on selfish gender when subjectivity begins to be seen in psychiatric diagnostics due to a rigid binary gender setting. Modern research proves the existence of gender diversity and a spectrum of gender identity. All this allows us to state that the phenomenon of so-called gender identity disorders goes beyond the psychopathological context. The psychiatrists use of the binary approach does not correspond to rapidly changing public ideas about the norm and pathology of human behavior.

Specificity without identity: Articulating post-gender sexuality through the “non-binary lesbian”

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136346072098156
Author(s):  
Levi CR Hord
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Fundamental Structure ◽  
Binary Gender ◽  
Identity Labels

This paper uses the paradigmatic pairing of non-binary and lesbian as identity labels to investigate changes in conceptualizations of sexual specificity as gender becomes divorced from its founding binaries. Contrary to the belief that lesbian is threatened by movement away from binary gender, this analysis postulates that it is not individual identities that are becoming problematic as gender identity becomes less binary; rather, it is the fundamental structure of identity which, for decades, has sanctioned identities built on exclusions. This cultural shift has the potential to liberate structures of desire, giving way to a model in which sexuality without gender is more redemptive than contentious.

Gender, socio-political cleavages and the co-constitution of gender identities: a multidimensional analysis of self-assessed masculine and feminine characteristics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy C. Alexander ◽  
Catherine Bolzendahl ◽  
Patrik Öhberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Multidimensional Analysis ◽  
Social Location ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Self Assessments ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Binary Gender

This study offers a multidimensional analysis of individuals’ self-assessments of their masculine and feminine characteristics to better understand variation from more to less binary gender identities. Through gender’s co-constitution along with various social localities, we expect that a number of socio-political factors differentiate individuals’ gender identities through self-assessments of their masculine and feminine characteristics. Using data from a 2013 Swedish survey, our results show that men and women tend towards traditionally polarised gender identities and that social location is a particularly influential correlate of men’s claims of feminine characteristics and women’s of masculine characteristics. Individuals from younger generations and individuals who are more educated are consistently more likely to ascribe to less binary feminine and masculine characteristics. This suggests that generational replacement and higher education may increase the tendency of populations to ascribe to less binary gender identities.<br /><br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>Measuring individuals self-assessed masculine and feminine characteristics.</li><br /><li>Exploring the influence of social location on gender identity.</li></ul>

Youths with a non-binary gender identity: a review of their sociodemographic and clinical profile

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 322-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Chew ◽  
Michelle A Tollit ◽  
Zeffie Poulakis ◽  
Sav Zwickl ◽  
Ada S Cheung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Clinical Profile ◽  
Binary Gender

Gender gaps in political attitudes revisited: the conditional influence of non-binary gender on left–right ideology and GAL-TAN opinions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Solevid ◽  
Lena Wängnerud ◽  
Monika Djerf-Pierre ◽  
Elias Markstedt
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Gender Gaps ◽  
Swedish Population ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Weak Evidence ◽  
The Right ◽  
Binary Gender

Across surveys and regardless of controls, women in many Western countries are consistently more politically left-leaning than men. More recently, however, innovative measures of non-binary gender identity suggest important heterogeneity in political attitudes within the categories of ‘women’ and ‘men’. Building from this, we study the direct and conditional associations between sex and non-binary gender on two political attitude dimensions: (1) left–right ideology; and (2) green/alternative/liberal versus traditionalist/authoritarian/nationalist opinions. Using a Swedish population-based survey from 2013, we find no evidence that political attitudes vary by non-binary gender identity alone, and only weak evidence that political attitudes vary by sex. However, supporting our conditional hypotheses, we find that gender (non)conformity matters significantly. Specifically, men with many masculine traits and women with many feminine traits stand more to the right and show more traditionalist/authoritarian/nationalist opinions than men and women who are less gender conforming.<br />Key messages<ul><li>Self-perceived gender traits show few direct associations with left–right ideology and green/alternative/liberal versus traditionalist/authoritarian/nationalist (GAL-TAN) opinions.</li><br /><li>Gender-conforming men and women lean more to the right and more towards traditionalist/authoritarian/nationalist (TAN) opinions than gender-nonconforming men and women.</li><br /><li>These new gender gaps in attitudes are sometimes larger than the original attitudinal gap between women and men.</li></ul>

scholarly journals Representation of the Intersex Phenomenon in Contemporary Culture: Cinematic Discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
Svetlana O. Izrina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
New Type ◽  
Gender Paradigm ◽  
Gender System ◽  
Binary Gender

Today, significant changes are taking place in the approach to the study of many sociocultural phenomena. Duality and polarity of their perception and analysis are being mitigated, alternative facets of the familiar and the generally accepted are coming to light, a number of “marginal” ideas are becoming the “new norm”. The research paradigm of the 20th – 21st centuries pays special attention to non-binary gender. Modern researchers focus on such issues as self-identification and search for gender identity, mechanisms of gender construction, variability of sex-role and identification models, non-conventional forms of gender identity (transgender and agender, intersexuality, etc.), as well as their representation in contemporary culture. One of such nonconventional phenomena of culture today is intersexuality, the current form of the well-known philosophical idea of androgyny. Intersex as a phenomenon of contemporary culture is considered as an element of the emerging non-binary gender system. Nowadays, intersex is not only the denomination of a person with biological characteristics atypical of the binary gender paradigm, but also the name of a distinctive culture discussing the problems of this new kind of people, who have become a significant part of our society. This article studies the representation of the intersex phenomenon in contemporary culture through the lens of cinematography. The sociocultural status of intersexuality explains the increasing quantity and thematic diversity of cinematic material. Intersexuality is a subject of active artistic reflection of many contemporary directors (L. Puenzo, C. Lavagna, J. Solomonoff, R. Féret, S. Savory, etc.), the discussion of acute social, legal and ethical problems being their focus. Thus, the leading themes are as follows: self-identification of intersex people and their search for gender identity; the problem of medicalization of intersex people and the legality of “corrective”/ “normalizing” operations from both medical and ethical points of view; parent–intersex child relationship; socialization of intersex teenagers and social acceptance of this new type of person.

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