ABSTRACT

Ideas about gender are changing. The UK and other countries are moving towards altering laws about gender recognition. Intersex people can be recognised as such in some countries. In the global North, nonbinary identities are becoming more common, and this is reflected in changes to recording systems. Referrals to child gender identity clinics are rising, and increasingly we have children in our schools who are socially transitioning, delaying puberty with hormone blockers, or starting hormonal gender transition. In this paper I consider how gender and education researchers should respond to these changes. I focus in particular on: the relationship between bodies and identity; artificially delayed puberty and how this affects ideas about childhood innocence; and the greater prevalence of nonbinary identifications. I argue that gender and education researchers will need to make significant changes to our underpinning theoretical frameworks and research practices in order to take these changes into account.

摘要

关于性别的观念正在发生变化。英国和其他国家正在努力修改有关性别承认的法律。在某些国家/地区，双性人可以被承认为双性人。在全球北方，非二进制身份变得越来越普遍，这反映在记录系统的变化中。转介到儿童性别认同诊所的人数正在增加，我们学校的孩子越来越多，他们正在社会转型、使用激素阻滞剂延迟青春期或开始荷尔蒙性别转变。在本文中，我考虑了性别和教育研究人员应如何应对这些变化。我特别关注：身体和身份之间的关系；人为延迟青春期以及这如何影响关于童年纯真的观念；以及非二元识别的更普遍。