Editorial: Sex, gender and nursing

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

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SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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Distinct concepts: personhood Gender identity Personal ethics/values Self‐identified gender Conflates sex and gender. The individual—not external others—identifies their gender identity/sex ... on the basis of subjective experience in which the person determines their identity as a man or woman on the basis of how they feel... Individual dignity Natal sex, gender, transgender Informed decisions My understanding/stance on sex - gender Young people who express feelings of gender dysphoria Biological sex—once one of the most solid and indisputable of ‘facts’ in healthcare

Academics and Researchers Sex is taken to refer to a biological reality which is observed at birth and distinguishes between male and female—normally on the basis of external genitalia | polarized discussion | Also determined at biochemical and chromosomal level and basis of internal and external organs Anatomy and physiology texts? Intersex? Binary: MALE :: FEMALE Biological essentialism Sex identity of the baby Documentation Puberty blockers for young people

- a social construction Evidence of ideological custom and practice Gendered Familial Care Work* Nurse clinicians (practice) and Researchers Cultural & social values and attitudes Gender: Feminism and women's studies Stereotypical behaviours and roles; male and female behaviour—the masculine and feminine Domestic abuse and sexual violence Social media debate Gender theorists - socially constructed ways of being

Dignity in Human Rights [SDGs] Gender inequality, Law ‘chestfeeding’ and ‘birthing partner’ Sex‐based rights Policy makers Activism, Protest movement 'Woke' movement Polarised DEBATE:NO debate GC Academia Network Implications for nursing Data? Service delivery and planning?

 My source:

Ion, R., Patrick, L., Hayter, M. and Jackson, D. (2021), Sex, gender and nursing. J Adv Nurs. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14843 

I am emphasising the distinction between quantitative and qualitative research, mixed methods also acknowledged.

The first section for me is supportive of a conceptual framework.

The SDGs are added as this debate must simultaneously address sex and gender from within nursing and as nursing is theorised and practised on an individual and population (collective) basis.

*See also: [c/o HIFA]

https://web.uri.edu/research-admin/gendered-familial-care-work-and-public-health-crises-conference/