Do We Really Need Legal Gender Categories?

Heath Fogg Davis, associate professor of political science at Temple University and author of Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter (NYU Press, 2017), provocatively questions the need for gender categories in the law, specifically with ID documents, public restrooms, colleges, and sports. The way we have categorized gender identity is by grouping people in either M or F. But Davis argues that there is a different way to approach gender beyond these two markers.