Abstract This article considers what we owe to each other by way of information disclosure prior to sexual intimacy. It does so in one specific context, namely sexual relations between cisgender and transgender people. In recent years, the UK has witnessed a spate of sexual offence prosecutions brought against young transgender and other gender non-conforming people. The article does not deal with questions of criminal law, at least not directly. Rather, it aims to challenge the dominant cisnormative view that non-disclosure of (trans)gender history is unethical. The article contains four parts. First, it will issue an important caveat concerning complainant claims of ignorance of defendant gender identity. This is important because without the caveat, the analysis might be viewed as reinforcing the transgender/deception coupling. Second, the article will delineate the relevant ‘facts’ about gender in relation to which ethical conclusions might appropriately be drawn. This section will highlight how problematisation of (trans)gender identity is an effect of cisnormative power and privilege. Third, the article engages with arguments derived from normative ethics, ones which accept gender identity claims, at least nominally, but nevertheless view non-disclosure of gender history to be unethical. It will do so in order to highlight how, even when issues of ideology, power and privilege are ignored or suspended, the view that an ethical obligation to disclose ought to exist will not necessarily win the day. Finally, the article returns to issues of cisnormative power and privilege and considers what it might mean to be ‘ethically gendered,’ and the implications of being so for the way we think and feel about sexual encounters in a world characterised by gender variance.

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性关系中（透明）需求的伦理

摘要本文考虑了我们在性亲密之前通过信息披露而彼此应得的。它是在一种特定的情况下做到的，即顺性别与跨性别者之间的性关系。近年来，英国目睹了针对年轻跨性别者和其他性别不符合者的一系列性犯罪起诉。这篇文章没有涉及刑法问题，至少没有直接涉及。相反，它旨在挑战主流的规范观点，即不公开（跨性别）性别史是不道德的。本文包含四个部分。首先，它将对申诉人声称对被告性别身份无知的指控发出重要警告。这很重要，因为没有警告，分析可能被视为加强了变性/欺骗耦合。第二，本文将描述有关性别的有关“事实”，可以适当地得出伦理结论。本节将重点介绍（跨）性别认同的问题化对规范权和特权的影响。第三，本文涉及源自规范伦理学的论点，这些论点至少在名义上接受了性别认同主张，但仍然认为不公开性别史是不道德的。这样做是为了强调，即使在意识形态，权力和特权问题被忽略或中止的情况下，认为应当存在道德上的披露义务的观点也不一定会赢得胜利。最后，本文回到了规范权和特权的问题上，并考虑了“道德上性别平等”的含义，