New York Times Quotes Barbara Risman on Third Gender Debate
The New York Times quotes Barbara Risman, UIC professor of sociology and LAS distinguished professor, in a story on gender-neutral teenagers who wish to have a third gender option available on identity documents, such as drivers licenses, and how the issue is being debated by state legislatures. “Such fluidity necessarily raises the question for all of us,” wrote Barbara Risman. “Why must our lives be organized by the legal and bureaucratic binary system that relegates everyone to one of two categories based originally on genitalia observed at birth?” https://nyti.ms/2wsGqTE (subscription may be required)
Modified on June 24, 2019