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100 _aNewman, Han J. H.
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245 _a‘An impossible dream’?
_b Non-binary people’s perceptions of legal gender status and reform in the UK
_cHan J. H. Newman and Elizabeth Peel
260 _bTaylor & Francis,
_c2022
490 _aPsychology & Sexuality
500 _aPsychology & Sexuality, 2022, First published online, 11 February 2022
520 _aThe meaning and significance of gender is currently a focus of heated and, often, polarised debate in the UK and elsewhere. This article provides a new perspective in the gender debate through focused exploration of UK-based non-binary people’s perceptions of legal gender status and reform. Binary gender/sex systems, such as the legal gender system in the UK, are underpinned by cisgenderism and are challenged by those whose identity falls outside of the binary of woman and man. In contrast to most lay participants in the Future of Legal Gender (FLaG) project, the majority of non-binary participants reported support for reform (85.5% (n = 165) in favour) to the current UK legal gender system. Over half (57%, n = 110) were in favour of abolishing legal gender (i.e. the state would no longer assign a legal gender status), although this was constructed as ‘an impossible dream’. Situating non-binary people’s perspectives at the heart of the debate about the certification of gender offers novel insight which could have significant ramifications for how societal structures could support undoing gender in the future. (Authors' abstract). Record #7739
610 _aThe Future of Legal Gender Project
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650 _aGENDER
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650 _aGENDER EQUALITY
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650 _aINTERSEX
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650 _aLAW REFORM
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650 0 _aLGBTQIA+
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650 _aNON-BINARY
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651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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651 4 _aUNITED KINGDOM
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700 _aPeel, Elizabeth
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773 0 _tPsychology & Sexuality, 2022, First published online, 11 February 2022
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2022.2039753
_zDOI: 10.1080/19419899.2022.2039753 (Open access)
856 _uhttps://futureoflegalgender.kcl.ac.uk/
_zThe Future of Legal Gender project website
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