{"id":902,"date":"2018-09-13T15:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T15:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=902"},"modified":"2018-09-13T15:28:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T15:28:27","slug":"transwomen-and-adoptive-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Transwomen and Adoptive Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0OU&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/tc2973\" >Sophie-Grace Chappell<\/a> has written a blog post exploring the merits of an analogy she draws between transgender women and adoptive parents. Here is the start:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Maybe we should think of it like this: Transwomen are to women as adoptive parents are to parents. There are disanalogies of course, and the morality of adoption is a large issue in itself which I can\u2019t do full justice to here. Still, the analogies are, I think, important and instructive.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest, go to the philosophy blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/conscienceandconsciousness.com\/2018\/07\/11\/transwomen-and-adoptive-parents-an-analogy\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/conscienceandconsciousness.com');\">Conscience and Consciousness<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0OU&#8217;s Sophie-Grace Chappell has written a blog post exploring the merits of an analogy she draws between transgender women and adoptive parents. Here is the start: Maybe we should think of it like this: Transwomen are to women as adoptive parents are to parents. There are disanalogies of course, and the morality of adoption is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophical-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}