Critiquing the term “cissexual” in Serano’s The Whipping Girl

I critique the foundations of the term “cissexual” in the book The Whipping Girl. I critique Julia Serano’s binary interpretation of Brain Sex, and discuss how her terms “unconscious sex” and “cissexual” attempt to create a reified transsexual/cissexual ontology.

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four biological sexes

I make a proposal for thinking of gender in a quadrant of four sexes instead of a binary of two sexes.
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juliaserano veronicadrantz malefemininity femalemasculinity genderbinary thirdsex fourthsex conversation biologicaldeterminism androgens organizationactivation hormones transsexual transgender MTF FTM