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@sally_hines and @karencuthbert presenting findings from their project looking at gender diversity for young people #BSA2019 
@sally_hines talking about the rise in coverage of trans people in the media and politically in the uk. Context of interest in the dissolving of gender for young people, particularly as nonbinary #BSA2019
@sally_hines project asks young people what gender means to them and how they experience gender. Can some young people afford or access gender diversity more than others? #BSA2019
@karencuthbert emerging liberal individualism from young people, strong discourses of individual freedoms to identify how they want. Digging deeper than this surface presentation confusion became apparent. #BSA2019
@karencuthbert limit to the range of acceptable genders from young people’s perspectives. Feeling overwhelmed by the explosion of new terms and language.
@karencuthbert the more needs are met, the more people are privileged the more they can engage with ‘frivolous genders’
@karencuthbert gender as frivolous again, hierarchy of needs and trans taking attention away from other ‘more important’ issues. #BSA2019
@karencuthbert need to be cautious about claiming youth as gender free when there is much criticism, uncertainty and ambivalence towards gender diversity #BSA2019
@karencuthbert @sally_hines young people are politicised and doing some brilliant activism, but it’s important not to overstate the extent to which the gender binary has collapsed for young people particularly from an intersectional perspective #BSA2019
@sally_hines @karencuthbert important to look beyond politicised groups and online spaces to everyday young people’s views #BSA2019
@sally_hines @karencuthbert performance of saying the ‘right thing’ within school institutions from young people aka liberal gender tolerance, much more dissent and disdain from university focus groups where discipline is relaxed #BSA2019
@sally_hines @karencuthbert there are brilliant young people expresses radical understandings of gender but this is nowhere near all young people #BSA2019
