Respect and Equality: Transsexual and Transgender Rights [Hardcover]

In this fascinating work, theoretical discussions of sex, sexuality, gender and law, and an extensive range of primary and secondary research materials, are combined to provide an insightful analysis into the inadequacies of current law.

In this fascinating work, theoretical discussions of sex, sexuality, gender and law, and an extensive range of primary and secondary research materials, are combined to provide an insightful analysis into the inadequacies of current law.Chapter 1 ; Chapter 2 Legal Madness: Transsexualism; Chapter 3 Transsexual Denial: Socially Constructing the Legal Body; Chapter 4 Still Gender Fucking or Still Fucking Gender? 1 A version of this paper was first published in Ekins and King, 1996. This version has been updated to take on board recent events; Chapter 5 The Trans-Cyberian Mail Way 1 This Chapter was originally published in (1998) 7(3) Social and Legal Studies 389408. It has been updated for this book; Chapter 6 Institutionalised Employment Discrimination and Transsexual People 1 A shorter version of this Chapter was published as New-isms transsexual people and institutionalised discrimination in Employment Law (1999) 4(1) Contemporary Issues in Law. This Chapter has been extensively revised to include more background and to bring it up to date; Chapter 7 Sex and Marriage: Go Together like a &? 1 This Chapter was previously published in Wintemute, R and Andeaes, M, Legal Recognition of Same Sex Partnerships, 2001, London: Hart. It has been revised and updated for this book; Chapter 8 Gemeinschaftsfremden 1 Gemeinschaftsfremden is the German language title of the 1943 Nazi draft law on the handling of social aliens, which provided the framework for the compulsory castration of homosexual men in Nazi concentration camps. This Chapter was originally published in Beresford, S, Monk, D and Moran, L (eds), Legal Queeries, 1998, London: Blackwell, pp 4256. It has been revised and updated for inclusion here.  Or how tolc“