After positively discussing Professor Lawford-Smith's central argument, I provide some of my own comments on the term 'gender identity', contrasting it with 'sexual orientation'. I argue that, unlike 'sexual orientation', both components of the phrase 'gender identity' have significant ambiguities that make clear empirical research into the nature of 'gender identity' a non-starter. I briefly suggest some ways to resolve the problem.
➤ Version 1 (2024-01-16) (published in Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences) |
Justin Kalef (2024). Review of Holly Lawford-Smith’s “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conversion Therapy: Or, Who put the ‘GI’ in ‘SOGI’?”. Researchers.One. https://researchers.one/articles/24.08.00006v1
Justin Kalef (2024). Review of Holly Lawford-Smith’s “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conversion Therapy: Or, Who put the ‘GI’ in ‘SOGI’?”. Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.58408/issn.2992-9253.2024.02.01.0003
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