Song of Wisdom's and Self's Love // Philosophical Systems of Gender and Transness and the Journey to Genderqueer Worlds
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2022
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Haverford College. Department of Philosophy
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Though love of wisdom tried to set me free Peace comes only through living life as me n this paper I attempt to find a metaphysical framework of gender in which the philosophical study of nonbinary experience can be grounded. I go about this by first examining the metaphysical systems of gender and transness put forth by Talia Mae Bettcher and Robin Dembroff. Subsequently, I find that both accounts have parallel structure despite differences in grounding. While I find that Dembroff's model lacking due to their framing of kind, I also find that their distinction between modest and extreme ontological pluralism to be an important concept. This leads me to construct a modified account of Bettcher's system. Next, I consider the account of genderqueer as gender kind put forth by Dembroff. Finally, after finding Dembroff's account once again lacking due to the language of kind, I use Dembroff's account in conjuncture with the modified version of Bettcher's system of gender to construct a new account of "genderqueer worlds."