Abstracts
Abstract
After considering some ways of assessing argumentation, I present an ethical assessment of Tuvel's argument in her article “In Defense of Transracialism.” My claim is that some transgender women engaging with Tuvel are exposed to certain kinds of injustice associated with argumentational work, namely, disproportionate burdens and risk of psychological harm.
Keywords:
- argumentation,
- argumentational injustice,
- transgender,
- Rebecca Tuvel,
- misgendering
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Chloë Taylor, Ada Jaarsma, Eloy Rodriguez LaBrada, Namrata Mitra, Alison Suen, Sabrina Hom, Ani Dutta, Sarita Srivastava, and Rebecca Tuvel for helpful comments and input on the ideas contained in this article. Participants in the panel on Trans*feminist Philosophy at the American Philosophical Meeting in Chicago in 2018, in particular Saray Ayala, helped me refine many of my arguments and raised astute objections, for which I am very grateful. Thanks for helping me attain greater clarity on the issues are also due to my colleagues at Dalhousie, particularly to Tyler Hildebrand, Chike Jeffers, and Sue Sherwin.
Biographical note
Stephanie Kapusta is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the philosophy department, and Interim Coordinator of the Law, Justice and Society Program in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. Her principal research interests lie in feminist philosophy, and social and political philosophy, with an emphasis on trans* studies. She has published, among other pieces, articles on misgendering in Hypatia ("Misgendering and its Moral Contestability") and on the indeterminacy of sex predicates in Topoi ("Imposing Sex Predicate Indeterminacy"). She has also written a forthcoming entry in the International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley) on “Transgender Rights,”and a soon-to-appear article in the Australasian Philosophical Review on “The Social Practise of Cognitive Estrangement.” Stephanie gave a recent interview (“Trans*feminism: How Trans Issues and Feminism Overlap” for the Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA Blog Interview). She loves trees and fall colours, good Sci-Fi movies, and singing.