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âChange can never be âcompleteââ: the legal right to self-identification and incongruous bodies
At the time of writing, New Zealand's government is considering select committee recommendations to simplify the process for changing the sex recorded on a birth certificate (Governance and Administration Committee 2018). This article argues that the inconsistent requirements for binary and non-binary transgender people to amend their documentation indicates a scepticism of the legitimacy of non-binary identities. The current process for transgender people seeking to change their sex marker is onerous and often expensive (Noonan and Liddicoat 2008). Attaining an "indeterminate" marker on a birth certificate is so difficult as to be functionally impossible. Crown Law have suggested that âsocial factorsâ (how a personâs gender is perceived by others) would be considered by the courts when deciding on the veracity of their stated gender identity, indicating that being identifiable as a binary-gendered person is a contributor to achieving legal recognition of oneâs gender. The proposal presumes that recording an "official" gender is natural and necessary. Legal recognition of non-binary people signals an expanded understanding of recognisable gender identities, but requires situating oneself within a bureaucratic framework. In light of the new process being proposed, I argue that if passed this Bill implicitly raises the question of why identity documents must have a sex marker on them at all
Lead, zinc and copper mineralisation in basal Carboniferous sediments at Westwater, south Scotland
A zioneo f lead, zinc and copperm ineralisatioins developedo ver a minimum
I of 4 km of strikeo f basal Carboniferoucse mentstoneg roup sedimentsa nd
immediatelyu nderlyingB irrenswarkL avas atwestwater,n ear Laqholm in south
Scotland. Grades so far obtained from sparse rock exposures and from shallow
boreholes
a fissure
sulphides
are usuallyO .l-O.j%o f combinedm etals over 1-2 m of thickness,bu t
vein of higher grade and a relativelyt hick zone of disseminated
were also located. Galena, sphalerite,c halcopyritea ndbaryte
occur mainly in thin dolomitev eins but disseminationosf galenaa re also
presenti n sandstoneu nits. The mineralisatioins of low temperaturet ype
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was emplaceda long northeasterlyt rendingn ormal faultsa nd cross faults
regardeda s late Carboniferouisn age.
and
Mineralisatiohna s been controlledb y faulting,r egionalf aciesv aziation
and local lithologicalv ariationa s well as by stratigraphipco sition. These
controlsa re applicablei n furthere xplorationo f Lower Carboniferourso cks in
both south and central Scotland. The heavy mineral fraction of stream sediment
is the optimums amplingt ype in reconnaissanceex plorationo f areas of calcareous .
rocks such as the Lower Carboniferouso f south Scotlanda nd basal till sampling
is the most effectivem ethod of follow-upe xplorationi n those areas where
glaciald epositsa re widespreada nd often thick
Comparison of the role of tyrosine residues in human IgG and rabbit IgG in binding of complement subcomponent C1q
In search of a pan-European culture: European values, beliefs and models of selfhood in global perspective
What, if any, are the common cultural characteristics that distinguish European societies and groups when viewed against a backdrop of global cultural variation? We sought to identify any shared features of European cultures through secondary multilevel analyses of two large datasets that together provided measures of cultural values, beliefs and models of selfhood from samples in all inhabited continents. Although heterogeneous in many respectsâincluding the value dimension of autonomy versus embeddednessâEuropean samples shared two distinctive features: a decontextualized representation of personhood and a cultural model of selfhood emphasizing difference from others. Compared to samples from other regions, European samples on average also emphasized egalitarianism and harmony values, commitment to others in their models of selfhood, and an immutable concept of personhood, but not uniformly so. We interpret these findings in relation to a Durkheimian model of individualism
The atypical velocity response by pyruvate carboxylase to increasing concentrations of acetyl-coenzyme A
Cultural variations in the relationship between anger coping styles, depression and life satisfaction
Hypotheses are tested that ways of handling anger and their consequences will differ in student samples drawn from dignity cultures (UK and Finland), honor cultures (Turkey and Pakistan) and face cultures (Hong Kong and China). In line with our hypotheses, holding anger in and controlling anger correlate positively in face cultures but not in other samples, whereas holding anger in and letting anger out correlate positively in honor cultures but not in other samples. Furthermore, holding anger in and letting anger out are more strongly predictive of high depression and low life satisfaction in honor cultures than in other samples. The results provide support for the cross-cultural validity of Spielberger's (1999) anger expression inventory and for the proposition that differences in ways of handling anger can be understood in terms of contrasting cultural contexts
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