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Genders that Don’t Matter: Non-Binary People and the Gender Recognition Act 2004
In July 2017, the UK government committed to “streamlining” the process for a legal change of gender in England and Wales. At present, the legal...
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Prohibiting the Queer Body: Gender Affirmation, Female Genital Cutting, and the Promise of Gender Intelligibility
Legal regulations of the body produce and seek to protect specific imaginations of the body in an idealized form—that is, not only what a body is but...
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Identities, Hate and Discrimination
This chapter highlights what we know about trans individuals’ experiences as they have been understood, primarily, through the hate crime paradigm....
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It is “Part of this Larger Tapestry of Anti-queer Experiences”: LGBTQ+ Australians’ Experiences of Street Harassment
Most research on street harassment has focused on the experiences of heterosexual, cisgender women, sha** our understandings of street harassment...
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Depathologising Gender: Vulnerability in Trans Health Law
This chapter challenges how gender has been positioned under the control of health professionals in the regulation of trans bodies. Trans people have...
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Body Searches and Vulnerable Groups: Women and LGBTQI+ People in Prison
While body searches are an inherently invasive procedure for all prisoners, some vulnerable groups (e.g. women, LGBTQI+ people, children, people with...
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Introduction
This chapter sets out the key themes addressed by the book and the relevance of the discussion at a time characterised by the emergence of a toxic...
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Borderline Personality Disorder Among Justice-Involved Populations
People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are overrepresented in the criminal justice system (CJS), highlighting the importance of...
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Respect
This chapter draws out the impacts of neo-liberal capitalist consumerism on trans peoples’ experiences of harm at the hands of the state. The...
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Travelling to Prüm –euphoria and dysphoria regarding the use of DNA data between and beyond borders
Since 2005 the international cooperation between EU Member states regarding the fight against transnational crime, terrorism and illegal immigration,...
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Map** the Manifestations of Exclusion: Challenging the Incarceration of Queer People
Prisons are coercive spaces that strengthen and support the capitalist system. They are deeply gendered institutions that enforce a gender binary and...
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Introduction
In this chapter, I provide an overview of the current political, social and cultural climate within which transphobic hate crime manifests. I...
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The Best Place on the Planet to Be Trans? Transgender Equality and Legal Consciousness in Scotland
This chapter explores the intersections of law, identity and discrimination. The author draws from a larger, four-year empirical project—documenting...
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Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom
In this chapter, we draw from Davina Cooper (2019) to consider how we—as legal advocates and scholars—might “play” with(in) the state to pursue...
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The ‘Online Othering’ of Transgender People in Relation to ‘Gender Neutral Toilets’
We provide an exposition and critical analysis of some of the ways in which transgender people are ‘othered’ online and of attempts to resist or...
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Exclusion and Ignorance: International Legal Recognition and Criminalisation Responses to Transgender Communities in the Context of Political Economy
In this chapter, definitions and enforcement of criminal laws which discriminate against transgender identities across the world will be discussed....
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Love
This chapter provides an account of how denials of ‘love’ in early relationships with our parents are instructed by neo-liberal values. In...
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Sexualities and Intoxication: “To Be Intoxicated Is to Still Be Me, Just a Little Blurry”—Drugs, Enhancement and Transformation in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Cultures
Despite evidence that drug use is higher among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) populations, research that explores the gendered...
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