Transgender Rights
Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter,
editors
(2006) University of Minnesota Press - 400 pages (paper)
The first comprehensive work on
the transgender civil rights movement.
About The Book:
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 Rights assesses the movement?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 Rights will 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 Sol?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 is assistant professor of English
at Susquehanna University and cochair of the National Center for
Transgender Equality Advisory Board.
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter
Part I. Law
1. Gender Pluralisms Under the Transgender Umbrella Paisley
Currah
2. The Ties that (Don?t) Bind: Transgender Family Law and
the Un-making of Families Taylor Flynn
3. The Roads Less Traveled: Why Binary Sex Categories
are Inadequate Julie A. Greenberg
4. Pursuing Protection For Transgender People Through Disability
Laws Jennifer L. Levi and Bennett H. Klein
5. The Evolution of Employment Discrimination Protections for
Transgender People Kylar W. Broadus
6. Deciding Fate or Protecting a Developing Autonomy? Intersex
Children and the Colombian Constitutional Court Morgan Holmes
7. The Rights of Intersexed Infants and Children: Decision
of the Colombian Constitutional Court, Bogota, Colombia, 12th
of May 1999 (SU-337/99)
Translated by Nohemy Sol?rzano-Thompson
Part II. History
8. Do Transsexuals Dream of Gay Rights?: Getting Real About
Transgender Inclusion Shannon Price Minter
9. Transgender Communities of the United States in the Late Twentieth
Century Dallas Denny
10. Public Health Gains of the Transgender Community in San Francisco:
Grassroots Organizing and Community-Based Research Willy
Wilkinson
Part III. Politics
11. Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination
in a Hostile Economy Dean Spade
12. Transgendering the Politics of Recognition Richard M.
Juang
13. (Trans)Sexual Citizenship in Contemporary Argentina Mauro
Cabral (A.I. Grinspan) and Paula Viturro
14. Undiagnosing Gender Judith Butler
15. Re-inscribing Normality?: The Law and Politics of Transgender
Marriage Ruthann Robson
Afterword: Are Transgender Rights Inhuman Rights? Kendall
Thomas
Appendix: The International Bill of Gender Rights
Preface
Phyllis Randolph Frye
Contributors
Index
Reviews
?The essays in Transgender Rights challenge us to redefine
our concepts of sec and gender while examining the many obstacles
facing the trans movement. This book is an excellent resource
of the subject of queer theory.? ?Standout Magazine
?An impressive compilation of work form lawyers and
scholars whose contributions range form disturbing to inspirational.?
?TransNation
?Here we have what many anthologies aspire to be and
the best achieve: a book that houses a lively, informative array
of ideas, opinions, suggestions, arguments, and purposes. Here
we also have what more anthologies should seek to be: a book of
political and social importance that seldom simplifies the groups
it portrays or the world it seeks to influence, making it a valuable
volume not merely for the people most immediately affected by
the issues raise, but also for anyone with a commitment to social
justice.? ?RainTaxi
?The first comprehensive work on the transgender civil
rights movement, this invaluable book offers legal analysis and
critical essays that move beyond media representations to grapple
with the real lives and issues of transgender people.? ?Curve
?Transgender Rights is a must for any transperson,
family member, or parent who is concerned with transgenders?
legal rights.? ?Dave Parker, President of PFLAG
Transgender Network
?At last! Transgender Rights is the only book any activist,
ally, or family member should really need to figure out the tactics
of most if not all gender bullies and stop them dead in their
tracks. Yippee for the good guys, the good grrls, and all the
rest of us good folks.? ?Kate Bornstein, author
of Hello, Cruel World
?This is a cutting-edge book full of new information
and new ideas.? ?Patrick Califia, author of Public
Sex and Sex Changes
?A valuable contribution to understanding this evolving
edge of human experience.? ?Susan Stryker, independent
scholar and filmmaker
?This book introduces transgender/transsexual/intersex
social, political, and legal issues to a broad audience. I think
this is an urgently important configuration of concerns, and was
moved, grateful, and profoundly excited to find that the editors
have brought into being a collection that presents them so well.?
?Janet Halley, Harvard Law School
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