TY  - EJOU
AU  - Bogardus, B. Tomás
AU  - Byrne, B. Alex
TI  - Ashley on Gender Identity1
T2  - Journal of Controversial Ideas

PY  - 2024
VL  - 4
IS  - 1
SN  - 2694-5991

AB  - ‘Gender identity’ was clearly defined sixty years ago, but the dominant conceptions of gender identity today are deeply obscure. Florence Ashley’s 2023 theory of gender identity is one of the latest attempts at demystification. Although Ashley’s paper is not fully coherent, a coherent theory of gender identity can be extracted from it. That theory, we argue, is clearly false. It is psychologically very implausible, and does not support ‘first-person authority over gender’, as Ashley claims. We also discuss other errors and confusions in Ashley’s paper.
KW  - gender identity
KW  - transgender
KW  - sex
KW  - gender
KW  - first-person authority
DO  - 10.35995/jci04010002