Breaking Binaries: The Critical Need for Feminist Bioethics in Pediatric Gender-Affirming Care
Breaking Binaries: The Critical Need for Feminist Bioethics in Pediatric Gender-Affirming Care

Breaking Binaries: The Critical Need for Feminist Bioethics in Pediatric Gender-Affirming Care

Hastings Cent Rep. 2024 May;54(3):55-56. doi: 10.1002/hast.1591.

ABSTRACT

This commentary responds to Moti Gorin’s article “What Is the Aim of Pediatric ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care?” We argue that Gorin’s case against pediatric gender-affirming care rests upon numerous false conceptual binaries: female/male, public/private, objective/subjective, and medically necessary/elective. Drawing on feminist bioethics, we show how such dichotomous thinking is both inaccurate and marginalizing of gender minorities.

PMID:38842885 | DOI:10.1002/hast.1591