[SydPhil] HPS Seminar - Dr Tamara Brown- Gender disappointment: a justification for sex selection?

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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MONDAY 16th NOVEMBER 2020 from 5.30pm
DR TAMARA BROWN
Lecturer in Health Ethics and Professionalism
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY
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‘Gender disappointment’ is the feeling of sadness when a parent’s strong desire for a child of a certain gender is not realised. It is frequently mentioned as a reason behind parents’ pursuit of sex selection for social reasons. It also tends to be framed as a mental disorder on a range of platforms including the media, sex selection forums and among parents who have been interviewed about sex selection. Our aim in this paper is to investigate whether gender disappointment justifies access to sex selection. We argue that ‘gender disappointment’ does not represent a specific separate diagnosis, but that parents’ distress is real and requires psychological treatment. We observe that parents’ distress is rooted in gender essentialism, which can be addressed at both the individual and societal level. We also question the logic of stating that a mental disorder is best treated physiologically and through the instrumentalisation of a future person, rather than working on the distressed mind.


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