Prof. Miqqi Alicia Gilbert

Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, Ph.D. aka Michael A. Gilbert is Full Professor of Philosophy at York University, Toronto, Canada. S/he has published two novels, a monograph entitled Coalescent Argumentation, as well a popular book on argument, How to Win an Argument, now in a third edition. More recently s/he has been publishing scholarly articles in Gender Theory including an essay in Hypatia in 2009. Miqqi Alicia is a life-long cross dresser and an activist in the international transgender community. S/he has been the book review editor and regular columnist for Transgender Tapestry, the magazine of the International Foundation for Gender Education, a recipient, in 2007, of an IFGE Trinity Award, and Director of Fantasia Fair. S/he has presented workshops at numerous trans events including Fantasia Fair, Southern Comfort, Esprit, IFGE and First Event. Her website is located at: http://www.yorku.ca/gilbert/tg/tg_world.html.

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Prof. Gilbert presents:

The Bigender Tranny

Bigenderism is the assumption that there are only two genders, and those two genders correspond one-to-one with the further assumption that there are only two sexes, male and female. The system of bigenderism requires that legal documents and public institutions all designate a single invariant gender (i.e., sex).These categories are applied in numerous social situations that stigmatize "imperfect" men and woman who do not reach the ideals set by the bigenderist schema or who are gender diverse. I present an analysis and a critique of Bigenderism, and the present some alternatives.