![]() ![]() Their analysis shows that, rather than having a stable and predetermined gender role within the social and legal world, transgender people’s bodies and identities are parsed differently across different discursive spaces. Westbrook and Schilt provide an extensive analysis of public debates over the social organization of transgender bodies. In addition, because of beliefs that women are inherently vulnerable and men are dangerous, “men’s” and “women’s” spaces are not policed equally-making access to women’s spaces central to debates over transgender rights. Gender-integrated spaces are more likely to use identity based criteria, while gender-segregated spaces, like the sexual spaces we have previously examined (Schilt and Westbrook 2009), are more likely to use biology-based criteria. We show that criteria for determining gender differ across social spaces. We draw on three case studies showcasing moments of conflict over who counts as a man and who counts as a woman: public debates over the expansion of transgender employment rights, policies determining eligibility of transgender people for competitive sports, and proposals to remove the genital surgery requirement for a change of sex marker on birth certificates. This article explores “determining gender,” the umbrella term for social practices of placing others in gender categories. “Doing Gender, Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System.” Gender & Society, 2014, 28: 32. 9 notes FebruCritical response to Westbrook and Schilt, “Doing Gender, Determining Gender” ![]()
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