The King Was Pregnant: Reproductive Ethics and Transgender Pregnancy

Using Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness as an inspirational backdrop, a novel whose story unfolds on a genderless planet that nevertheless relies on reproductive sex for the sake of generativity, this paper tackles the sex/gender debate, its entanglements with procreation, and its conseq...

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Published inInternational journal of feminist approaches to bioethics Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 120 - 140
Main Author Drouillard, Jill
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Toronto Press 01.03.2021
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Summary:Using Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness as an inspirational backdrop, a novel whose story unfolds on a genderless planet that nevertheless relies on reproductive sex for the sake of generativity, this paper tackles the sex/gender debate, its entanglements with procreation, and its consequences for transgender pregnancies. More specifically, I analyze three issues that pose barriers to thinking about a more inclusive reproductive ethics: state-sanctioned sterilization, nonreproductive futurism, and access to assisted reproductive technology.
ISSN:1937-4585
1937-4577
DOI:10.3138/IJFAB-14.1.06