RT Article
T1 Gender Inequality and Biological Supremacy: A Sex Equality Analysis of Patrick Parkinson’s "Neutral" Proposal
JF Journal of law and religion
VO 38
IS 1
SP 46
OP 54
A1 Gilreath, Shannon 1977-
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1839280581
AB In this essay, a response to an article by Patrick Parkinson, Shannon Gilreath disputes Parkinson’s claim that religiously motivated discrimination against transgender people should be the subject of special exceptions to prevailing antidiscrimination law, especially where the transgender person does not seek to conform to the traditional male/female gender binary. Gilreath maps the ways in which Parkinson’s proposal is an argument for biological superiority, which has been the rationalization for systematic and systemic social inferiority throughout history, including most notably in the contexts of race, gender, and sexuality oppression. In concluding that Parkinson’s proposal is little more than a restatement of the faulty differences-based approach to equality through law, Gilreath ultimately concludes that its principles are wholly inconsistent with the legitimate purposes of antidiscrimination law.
K1 antidiscrimination
K1 antisubordination
K1 Equality
K1 Feminist Theory
K1 trans rights
K1 Violence
DO 10.1017/jlr.2022.60