Transgender Rights

by Currah, Paisley

• ISBN13: 9780816643127
• ISBN10: 0816643121
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-18
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

"Transgender Rightspacks a surprising amount of information into a small space. Offering spare, tightly executed essays, this slim volume nonetheless succeeds in creating a spectacular, well-researched compendium of the transgender movement." -Law Library Journal Over the past three decades, the transgender movement has gained visibility and achieved significant victories. Discrimination has been prohibited in several states, dozens of municipalities, and more than two hundred private companies, while hate crime laws in eight states have been amended to include gender identity. Yet prejudice and violence against transgender people remain all too common. With analysis from legal and policy experts, activists and advocates,Transgender Rightsassesses the movementrs"s achievements, challenges, and opportunities for future action. Examining crucial topics like family law, employment policies, public health, economics, and grassroots organizing, this groundbreaking book is an indispensable resource in the fight for the freedom and equality of those who cross gender boundaries. Moving beyond media representations to grapple with the real lives and issues of transgender people,Transgender Rightswill launch a new moment for human rights activism in America. Contributors: Kylar W. Broadus, Judith Butler, Mauro Cabral, Dallas Denny, Taylor Flynn, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Julie A. Greenberg, Morgan Holmes, Bennett H. Klein, Jennifer L. Levi, Ruthann Robson, Nohemy Soloacute;rzano-Thompson, Dean Spade, Kendall Thomas, Paula Viturro, Willy Wilkinson. Paisley Currah is associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College, executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a founding board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute. Richard M. Juang cochairs the advisory board of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) in Washington, DC. He has taught at Oberlin College and Susquehanna University. He is the lead editor of NCTE'sResponding to Hate Crimes: A Community Resource Manualand coeditor ofTransgender Justice,which explores models of activism. Shannon Price Minter is legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and a founding board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xiii
Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter
PART I. LAW
1. Gender Pluralisms under the Transgender Umbrella	3	(29)
Paisley Currah
2. The Ties That (Don't) Bind: Transgender Family Law and the Unmaking of Families	32	(19)
Taylor Flynn
3. The Roads Less Traveled: The Problem with Binary Sex Categories	51	(23)
Julie A. Greenberg
4. Pursuing Protection for Transgender People through Disability Laws	74	(19)
Jennifer L. Levi and Bennett H. Klein
5. The Evolution of Employment Discrimination Protections for Transgender People	93	(9)
Kylar W. Broadus
6. Deciding Fate or Protecting a Developing Autonomy? Intersex Children and the Colombian Constitutional Court	102	(20)
Morgan Holmes
7. The Rights of Intersexed Infants and Children: Decision of the Colombian Constitutional Court, Bogotá, Colombia, 12 May 1999 (SU-337/99)	122	(19)
Translated by Nohemy Solórzano-Thompson
PART II. HISTORY
8. Do Transsexuals Dream of Gay Rights? Getting Real about Transgender Inclusion	141	(30)
Shannon Price Minter
9. Transgender Communities of the United States in the Late Twentieth Century	171	(21)
Dallas Denny
10. Public Health Gains of the Transgender Community in San Francisco: Grassroots Organizing and Community-Based Research	192	(25)
Willy Wilkinson
PART III. POLITICS
11. Compliance Is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy	217	(25)
Dean Spade
12. Transgendering the Politics of Recognition	242	(20)
Richard M. Juang
13. (Trans)Sexual Citizenship in Contemporary Argentina	262	(12)
Mauro Cabral (A.I. Grinspan) and Paula Viturro
14. Undiagnosing Gender	274	(25)
Judith Butler
15. Reinscribing Normality? The Law and Politics of Transgender Marriage	299	(11)
Ruthann Robson
Afterword: Are Transgender Rights Inhuman Rights?	310	(17)
Kendall Thomas
Appendix: The International Bill of Gender Rights	327	(6)
Preface by Phyllis Randolph Frye
Contributors	333	(6)
Index	339