![]() Feminism is the best weapon against gender…. “Gender only survives if men and women get treated differently. “How women should be, to better suit men.”Īs a trans woman, her transition meant automatically losing male privilege she therefore identifies strongly as a feminist. “Gender is messages from the patriarchy,” she tells me. ![]() Instead, it comes from us – “me, you, society, religion, doctors, the media, teachers, language, culture, your parents.” Boys don’t cry, girls don’t fight. If that’s all anyone takes away from this book, I’ve won.” Gender, says Dawson, “is neither science nor God”. The World Health Organisation defines it as “socially constructed ideas about the behaviour, actions and roles a particular sex performs.” Or as Dawson puts it, “Gender is not sex. While ‘sex’ refers to five physical characteristics – XX or XY chromosomes ovaries or testicles levels of oestrogen and testosterone uterus or prostate clitoris or penis – gender is manmade. ![]() “One of Gender’s most common refrains is that ‘if it looks like a boy and it sounds like a boy, it’s a boy.’” Except in her case, she was a girl inside a boy’s body. “Gender and I were always heading for a showdown,” she writes. The Gender Games traces Dawson’s transition from James to Juno, in a saucy, sassy, sweary look at gender, and how it trips and entraps us. ![]()
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