Trans-inclusive gender categories are cognitively natural

Andrew Perfors (), Steven T. Piantadosi and Celeste Kidd
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Andrew Perfors: University of Melbourne
Steven T. Piantadosi: University of California, Berkeley
Celeste Kidd: University of California, Berkeley

Nature Human Behaviour, 2023, vol. 7, issue 10, 1609-1611

Abstract: On the basis of decades of cognitive science research into the nature of lexical concepts, we argue that gender categories that reflect the reality of the experiences of transgender people are more useful and cognitively natural than sex-based category definitions.

Date: 2023
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