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Paisley Currah is Professor of Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center and author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity.
Two prominent litigators discuss decades of progress, the backlash today, and the road ahead.
Trans-inclusive policies are essential, but efforts to establish them must not lose sight of the structural oppressions that trans people face.
Gorsuch’s majority opinion tossed out the old common sense about sex, even as its logic buttressed other kinds of state control.
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