Victorious transsexuals in the courtroom: A challenge for feminist legal theory

A Kirkland - Law & Social Inquiry, 2003 - cambridge.org
Transsexual and transgendered people, despite their exclusion from most civil rights laws,
nonetheless occasionally prevail as plaintiffs in litigation. What should feminist legal …

The Transgender Rights Imaginary 1

P Currah - Feminist and queer legal theory, 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
When i give talks in academic venues about discrimination cases brought by transgender
plaintiffs, marriage litigation involving transsexual spouses, and attempts to get the state to …

Transgender legal advocacy: What do feminist legal theories have to offer

DR Gordon - Calif. L. Rev., 2009 - HeinOnline
Transgender persons face severe prejudice and discrimination in a wide variety of areas-
from areas of public concern like employment, credit, public accommodations, and law …

Operations of legal rhetoric: Examining transsexual and judicial identity

SE Keller - Harv. CR-CLL Rev., 1999 - HeinOnline
Transsexuality draws attention. A transsexual is someone who undergoes or contemplates
undergoing anatomical and hormonal modifications in order to live in and be recognized as …

Keynote Address: Trans Law Reform Strategies, Co-Optation, and the Potential for Tranformative Change

D Spade - Women's Rts. L. Rep., 2008 - HeinOnline
This symposium occurs in an interesting moment for the institutionalization or consolidation
of the concept of transgender law. This semester, three symposia focused on trans law took …

Naming the Grotesque Body in the Nascent Jurisprudence of Transsexualism

RF Storrow - Mich. J. Gender & L., 1996 - HeinOnline
In a legal system wedded to the notion that only two mutually exclusive sexes coexist,
transsexualism'poses a daunting challenge. Whereas judges purport to decide disputes …

Beyond the Binary: what can feminists learn from intersex transgender jurisprudence

J Greenberg, M Herald, M Strasser - Mich. J. Gender & L., 2010 - HeinOnline
JULIE GREENBERG: Our panel will be discussing recent developments in the intersex and
transsexual communities. The transsexual community began to organize in the 1970s, but …

Getting sex right: heteronormativity and biologism in trans and intersex marriage litigation and scholarship

DB Cruz - Duke J. Gender L. & Pol'y, 2010 - HeinOnline
This Essay criticizes two negative tendencies in legal scholarship, lawyers' arguments, and
judicial opinions addressing the legal sex of and the validity of marriages involving …

(Law) Breaking Gender: In Search of Transformative Gender Law

R Faithful - Am. UJ Gender Soc. Pol'y & L., 2009 - HeinOnline
A discussion that examines the law's relationship to transgender, intersex, and gender
variant people fits very well with this year's LatCrit theme," Outsiders Inside." 1 A discussion …

Sex, gender, and the need for legal clarity: the case of transsexualism

M Gould - Val. UL Rev., 1978 - HeinOnline
Meredith Gould* Introduction Societies have historically created institutions to organize and
control all aspects of human relationships; this is a substantive concern of social theory. The …