Lerum and Dworkin (2015) pinpoint that “Nowhere is there any mention of how the Agency Line might differentially impact individuals in the U.S. who are born into and/or identify with the female sex category across a range of gender and sexual identities (e.g., cisgender, lesbian, bisexual, femme, butch, transfeminine, genderqueer or transmasculine individuals). In a paper attempting to create and model of young women 's sexuality in the the contemporary United States, the omission of gender and sexual diversity alone is striking, especially given existing critiques of GLBTQ absence from mainstream feminist psychology theories” (p. 327). I personally feel that a discussion about sexual agency that does not acknowledge those who fall outside of the cisgendered, heterosexual sphere is almost not worth having. Particularly because the sociological pressures and normalization ideologies that queer folk encounter on a day to day basis are dramatically different from those faced by able-bodied, cis-gendered and sexed, usually white
Lerum and Dworkin (2015) pinpoint that “Nowhere is there any mention of how the Agency Line might differentially impact individuals in the U.S. who are born into and/or identify with the female sex category across a range of gender and sexual identities (e.g., cisgender, lesbian, bisexual, femme, butch, transfeminine, genderqueer or transmasculine individuals). In a paper attempting to create and model of young women 's sexuality in the the contemporary United States, the omission of gender and sexual diversity alone is striking, especially given existing critiques of GLBTQ absence from mainstream feminist psychology theories” (p. 327). I personally feel that a discussion about sexual agency that does not acknowledge those who fall outside of the cisgendered, heterosexual sphere is almost not worth having. Particularly because the sociological pressures and normalization ideologies that queer folk encounter on a day to day basis are dramatically different from those faced by able-bodied, cis-gendered and sexed, usually white