Talia Mae Bettcher
Osoby trans mają pierwszoosobowy autorytet w sprawie swojej płci: opowieść o „złym ciele” nie oddaje doświadczenia trans, a transfobia często działa, przedstawiając osoby trans jako oszustów lub udających.
Umiejscowienie
Filozofka, która pomogła ukształtować filozofię trans jako dziedzinę, obecnie na Uniwersytecie Waterloo: transfobia przedstawia osoby trans jako „oszustów” lub „udających”; ani model „złego ciała”, ani „poza binarnością” nie pasuje do życia osób trans – w społecznościach trans „kobieta” obejmuje kobiety trans jako rzecz oczywistą, i dowodzi ona, że to znaczenie, a nie dominujące, powinno nas prowadzić.
Kluczowe idee
- Źli oszuści i udawacze
- Krytyka modelu złego ciała
- Wielorakie znaczenia słowa „kobieta”
- Autorytet pierwszej osoby
Wpływ
Pod wpływem 1
María Lugones
pod wpływem
Bettcher used Lugones’s idea of multiple ‘worlds’ to argue that in trans communities ‘woman’ applies to trans women without qualification (2013; ‘Trapped in the Wrong Theory’, 2014). T. M. Bettcher, “Trans Women and the Meaning of ‘Woman’”, in A. Soble, N. Power and R. Halwani (eds.), The Philosophy of Sex (6th ed., 2013); “Trapped in the Wrong Theory”, Signs 39 (2014); M. Lugones, “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception”, Hypatia 2 (1987); SEP “Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues”
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María Lugones › 1944–2020
Stanowisko
Bettcher’s early work was on George Berkeley’s theory of the self, but she is best known for helping to establish trans philosophy: philosophy done from trans perspectives and in the service of trans lives. “Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers” analyses transphobic violence. Dominant culture treats gender presentation as a communication of genital status, so trans people are cast either as “deceivers”, if their trans status is unknown, or as “make-believers”, if it is known – a double bind that is used to excuse violence against them. “Trapped in the Wrong Theory” criticises both the medical “wrong body” model, on which a trans person has an inner gender identity at odds with their body, and the “beyond the binary” model, which treats trans people as transcending gender; neither, she argues, does justice to the many trans people – especially trans women – who understand themselves as women or as men. Drawing on María Lugones’s idea of multiple worlds, she argues that “woman” has more than one meaning: in trans communities it is used in a way on which trans women are women without qualification, and trans people have first-person authority over their gender. “Beyond Personhood” develops a theory of “interpersonal spatiality” – of intimacy and distance between people – which, she argues, explains trans oppression and gender dysphoria better than the concepts of person, self and subject.
Życie i kontekst
Talia Mae Bettcher (born 1966) is a trans woman and a leading figure in trans philosophy. She studied philosophy at York University in Toronto and at the University of Washington and took her doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1999 with a dissertation on Berkeley and Hume on the self. From 2000 she taught at California State University, Los Angeles, where she chaired the philosophy department and directed the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities. In 2026 she moved to the University of Waterloo in Canada as the inaugural Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair in Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Trans Community Resilience. She wrote the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on feminist perspectives on trans issues.
Główne dzieła
- Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers (2007)
- Berkeley’s Philosophy of Spirit (2007)
- Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2009)
- Trapped in the Wrong Theory (2014)
- Beyond Personhood (2025)
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- Podróż „Filozofia feministyczna” · Przystanek 11 z 11
- Debata „Czym jest płeć (gender)?”
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