Beyond Binary
Linda Pressly asks if being 'non-binary' breaks the last identity taboo, and explores the challenges it creates for the law, society and conventional concepts about gender.
In communities around the globe, genderqueer, gender-variant and gender-fluid people are rejecting the categories of male and female, and attempting to re-define gender identity. Linda Pressly asks if being non-binary breaks the last identity taboo, and explores the challenges it creates for the law, society and conventional concepts about the very nature of gender.
Producer: Lucy Proctor
(Photo: Pips Bunce, the global head of Fixed Income & Derivatives IT engineering at Credit Suisse, who identifies as gender-fluid, or gender-variant).
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Gender fluidity at work
Duration: 02:36
Broadcasts
- Mon 23 May 201620:30BBC Radio 4
- Sun 29 May 201621:30BBC Radio 4
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Programme examining the ideas and forces which shape public policy in Britain and abroad.
