Book contents
- Constructive Theology and Gender Variance
- Current Issues in Theology
- Constructive Theology and Gender Variance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Setting the Scene
- Part II Telling Truths
- 4 Autonomy and Trans People
- 5 Gender Transition, Truth-Telling, and Artifice
- 6 Self-Protection or ‘Gender Fraud’?
- Part III Limits, Technology, and Health
- Part IV Transformative Creatures
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
6 - Self-Protection or ‘Gender Fraud’?
Ethics and the Burden of Disclosure
from Part II - Telling Truths
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 December 2022
Book contents
- Constructive Theology and Gender Variance
- Current Issues in Theology
- Constructive Theology and Gender Variance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Setting the Scene
- Part II Telling Truths
- 4 Autonomy and Trans People
- 5 Gender Transition, Truth-Telling, and Artifice
- 6 Self-Protection or ‘Gender Fraud’?
- Part III Limits, Technology, and Health
- Part IV Transformative Creatures
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
In Chapter 5 we saw that appeals to truth in discussions of bodies and identities have sometimes undermined trans people’s right to tell their own truths as they see fit. We saw that truth has sometimes not been problematized appropriately, nor the category sufficiently interrogated. I concluded that trans and cis people alike need to be granted the autonomy to self-narrate and that there needs to be a widespread acceptance that no identity signifies monolithically and that the truth of identity will therefore always be multiple and contested.
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- Constructive Theology and Gender VarianceTransformative Creatures, pp. 162 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022