The condition and status of being a person, afforded a person’s rights and ethical responsibilities. While personhood is typically closely related to humanness, patriarchal, and white supremacist systems often withhold the legal status of personhood along race, gender, and ability lines through various regimes of dehumanization (see Choi, Coded Bias). The subject of numerous moral and philosophical debates, criteria for personhood often include social, genetic, linguistic, and cognitive measures (see Chiang), and legal frameworks for personhood (i.e. environmental personhood) may be used as strategies in pursuit of recognizing and protecting non-human beings.