Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share From the archives: Why does the government care about labeling your gender?
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
From the archives: Why does the government care about labeling your gender?
A person’s sex designation on official documents has a lot to do with the state they live in. Paisley Currah is professor of political science and women’s & gender studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the category of “sex” on government documents and what that says about the future of transgender rights. His book is “Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity.”
This episode originally aired on August 16, 2022.
View all episodes
By KERA
4.7
890890 ratings
A person’s sex designation on official documents has a lot to do with the state they live in. Paisley Currah is professor of political science and women’s & gender studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the category of “sex” on government documents and what that says about the future of transgender rights. His book is “Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity.”
This episode originally aired on August 16, 2022.
More shows like KERA's Think
View all
This American Life
90,971 Listeners
TED Radio Hour
21,956 Listeners
Radiolab
43,882 Listeners
Freakonomics Radio
31,987 Listeners
Fresh Air
38,495 Listeners
The New Yorker Radio Hour
6,780 Listeners
Hidden Brain
43,605 Listeners
On the Media
9,195 Listeners
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
3,984 Listeners
Here & Now Anytime
1,000 Listeners
Death, Sex & Money
7,686 Listeners
Science Friday
6,401 Listeners
The Pulse
340 Listeners
1A
4,663 Listeners
Throughline
16,363 Listeners