Paisley Currah

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.

Inside the Legal Fight for Trans Rights

Two prominent litigators discuss decades of progress, the backlash today, and the road ahead.

  • Jennifer L. Levi
  • Shannon Price Minter
  • Paisley Currah

Governing Transgender Identity

Trans-inclusive policies are essential, but efforts to establish them must not lose sight of the structural oppressions that trans people face. 

  • Paisley Currah
  • Robin Dembroff

How a Conservative Legal Perspective Just Saved LGBT Rights

Gorsuch’s majority opinion tossed out the old common sense about sex, even as its logic buttressed other kinds of state control.

  • Paisley Currah
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