Gender-Affirmation and Loving Attention

Abstract In this article I examine the moral dimensions of gender-affirmation. argue that value gender-affirmation is rooted in what Iris Murdoch called loving attention. Loving attention central to because such affirmation otherwise too fragile or insincere have value. Moral reasons engage acts gender-affirm derive from commitment give and express trans people as a way challenging their marginalization. latter part article, will discuss how my arguments bear on recent by Robin Dembroff Daniel Wodak use gender-neutral language (Dembroff 2018). They we duty not gender-specific pronouns for anyone. Their conclusion turns, part, rejection duty. The gender-affirmation, our perception people, should make us skeptical conclusion, favor more nuanced pluralistic approach ethics gendering.