Transgender Theory and Post-Political Order
“Sex” and “gender” are not facts of nature just lying there waiting to be discovered by the neutral rationality of science. And the distinction between a merely biological “sex” and a social or psychological “gender” is not a scientific distinction. It is not the discovery of detached empirical observation or the result of experimental testing but is an a priori interpretive lens for processing empirical and experimental data whose conceptual origins lie elsewhere...
