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Transgender Rights Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter, editors Table of Contents PRESS: |
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The first comprehensive work on the transgender civil rights movement. 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 Solórzano-Thompson, Dean Spade, Kendall Thomas, Paula Viturro, Willy Wilkinson. "Transgender Rights packs 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. By giving voice to the needs and a blueprint for survival of transgender people, it opens a window affording mainstream America a view of the extreme difficulties and injustices this community suffers on a daily basis. It also documents the inroads made into changing laws and cultural perceptions with respect to transgender people and the fearlessness required of these individuals to rightfully live as their authentic selves. As each essay cites to a wealth of valuable resources, librarians whose institutions collect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and/or human rights materials will find in the footnotes a wonderful collection development aid. Sure to be considered a classic." —Law Library Journal “With Transgender Rights, Paisely Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter have edited a complex, coherent, and necessary collection of articles. The collection does provide insight into the legal politics of transgender experience in the contemporary US and into the politics of rights more broadly.” —Law and Politics Book Review “Transgender Rights is an indispensable resource for those who cross gender boundaries.” —Lambda Book Report “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 attention-getting education in trans issues for lay persons.” —Echo 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 "Bridges the gap between academic inquiry and the experiences of transgender activists." —GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies “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 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. 400 pages | 5 7⁄8 x 9 | 2006 AcknowledgmentsIntroduction, 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 Solórzano-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, Phyllis Randolph Frye Contributors Index |
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