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Jordan and Brandon talk with Dr. Tomas Bogardus about the Philosophy of Gender. What does gender mean? What does sexuality mean? Why is there a distinction between the two? Is it a fair distinction? What should we do with vague areas like intersex examples? Are there any confessional opinions on this matter?

Resources:

1) Evaluating Arguments for the Sex/Gender Distinction, Tomas Bogardus
2) Are Women Adult Human Females?, Alex Byrne
3) Gender and race: (What) are they? (what) do we want them to be?, Haslanger, S., Noûs, 34(1), 31–55.
4) Politically significant terms and philosophy of language: Methodological issues, J. Saul, In A. Superson & S. Crasnow (Eds.), Analytic feminist contributions to traditional philosophy. Oxford University Press.
5) Why be nonbinary?, Dembroff, R. Aeon
6) Trans women and the meaning of ‘woman’. Bettcher, T. M. In A. Soble, N. Power, & R. Halwani (Eds.), Philosophy of sex: Contemporary readings (6th ed., pp. 233–250). Rowan & Littlefield.