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Beyond Trans pushes the dialogue on gender personal information to its limitations: questioning the necessity for gender categories to begin with. Whether on birth certificates or school admissions applications or on bathroom entry doors, why do we need to mark people and places with intimacy categories? Do they provide a real purpose or are these places and forms just mechanisms of exclusion? Heath Fogg Davis offers an impassioned call to rethink the usefulness of dividing the entire world into not simply Male and Feminine categories but even additional categories of Transgender and gender substance. Davis, himself a transgender man, explores the root gender-enforcing regulations and customs in American life that contain led to transgender bathroom expenses, school admissions controversies, plus more, arguing that it's essential for our society to take real steps to test the assumption that gender things. He examines four areas where we need to re-think our sex-classification systems: sex-marked personal information documents such as birth certificates, individuals licenses and passports; sex-segregated general public restrooms; single-sex colleges; and sex-segregated athletics.
