‘I say therefore I am’: Trans Identities and Testimonial Injustice
In this talk, we address arguments by trans exclusionary feminists (TEFs) against gender self-identification and find that they embody both testimonial and hermeneutical forms of epistemic injustice. We also respond to the alleged circularity problem of self-identification raised by Katharine Jenkins, and examine Talia Mae Bettcher’s claim that the epistemic nature of first-person authority renders it unreliable (and that FPA should consequently be understood as a strictly ethical phenomenon.)