Talia Mae Bettcher (born October 8, 1966) is a Canada-born philosopher who has written on transgender philosophical issues.
Her most accessible response to the troubling gender critical movement in philosophy is the 2018 piece “When Tables Speak.”
Background
Bettcher earned a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy/Linguistics from Glendon College at York University in 1991. Bettcher received a Mellon Fellowship to attend University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1999. She began teaching at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) in 2000.
Bettcher married Susan Forrest in 2008.
Selected publications
Bettcher, Talia Mae (May 30, 2018). “When Tables Speak”: On the Existence of Trans Philosophy. Daily Nous https://dailynous.com/2018/05/30/tables-speak-existence-trans-philosophy-guest-talia-mae-bettcher/
Bettcher TM (2021) Feminist Philosophical Engagements with Trans Studies. The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190628925.013.44
Bettcher TM (2016). Intersexuality, Transgender, and Transsexuality. The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory. Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth, eds. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.21
Bettcher TM (2014). “Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta, ed. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-trans/
Bettcher TM (2008). Pretenders to the throne: a commentary on Alice Dreger’s “The controversy surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A case history of the politics of science, identity, and sex in the internet age.” Archives of Sexual Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-008-9326-0
“Trans Women and ‘Interpretive Intimacy’: Some Initial Reflections”
“Trans Women and the Meaning of ‘Woman’”
“Full-Frontal Morality: The Naked Truth about Gender”
Full‐Frontal Morality: The Naked Truth about Gender
TM Bettcher – Hypatia, 2012 –
TM Bettcher – Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2014
“Without a Net: Starting Points for Trans Stories”
“Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues”
“Trans Identities and First-Person Authority”
TM Bettcher – Hypatia, 2019 –
Trans feminism: recent philosophical developments
TM Bettcher – Philosophy Compass, 2017
Through the Looking Glass: Trans Theory Meets Feminist Philosophy
TM Bettcher – The Routledge companion to feminist philosophy, 2017
“Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion”
“Gender, Identity, Theory, and Action”
“Understanding Transphobia: Authenticity and Sexual Abuse”
“Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Transsexual Individuals” (co-authored with Emilia Lombardi)
Trapped in the wrong theory: Rethinking trans oppression and resistance
TM Bettcher – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and …, 2014
[PDF] Trans women and the meaning of ‘woman’
TM Bettcher – 2013 – philpapers.org
[PDF] Trans Women and Interpretive Intimacy: Some Initial Reflections”
TM Bettcher – 2013 –
When selves have sex: What the phenomenology of trans sexuality can teach about sexual orientation
TM Bettcher – Journal of Homosexuality, 2014 – Taylor & Francis
Resources by Bettcher
Academia.edu (academia.edu)
- Talia Bettcher Curriculum Vitae
- https://calstatela.academia.edu/TaliaBettcher/CurriculumVitae
What is is like to be a philosopher (whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com)
- Talia Mae Bettcher
- http://www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com/talia-mae-bettcher
Susan and Talia (bettcherforrest.wordpress.com)
- Personal site
Learning T (learningtrans.org)
- Site recommended by Bettcher