Law, Gender Identity, and the Brain: Exploring Brain-Sex Theories in Judicial Decisions on Trans and Intersex...

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Aileen Kennedy

Law, Gender Identity, and the Brain

Exploring Brain-Sex Theories in Judicial Decisions on Trans and Intersex Minors

Aileen Kennedy

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Routledge
08 December 2023

Gender studies: men; Sociology; Politics & government; Gender & the law; Neurosciences

Series: Gender in Law, Culture, and Society

This book challenges law’s reliance on neurology’s brain-sex binary.

The brain has become the latest candidate in a historical search for a reliable and fixed biological marker of ‘true sex’ that has permeated every aspect of Western culture, including law. As definitions of the sexed and gendered body have become ever more contentious, the development and dissemination of brain-sex theories have come to dominate popular understanding of LGBTI+ identities. But, this book argues, the brain is no more helpful than earlier biological measures in ensuring just outcomes. Examining how law determines and differentiates ‘male’ and ‘female’ in two contested areas of sexed identity –through a discussion of Australian cases authorising medical interventions to alter the embodied sex characteristics of transgender minors and intersex minors –the book demonstrates an incoherence in the legal understanding of gender identity development. As the brain too fails as a convincing biological anchor for the binary sex categories of male and female, law must, it is argued, retreat from its aspiration to create, define, and regulate artificially bounded sex categories of male and female.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and students in a range of disciplines who are working at the intersection of law, gender, and sexuality.

By: Aileen Kennedy
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9781032424316
ISBN 10: 1032424311
Series: Gender in Law, Culture, and Society
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 08 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Aileen Kennedy is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney and the Chair of Intersex Human Rights Australia.