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Paisley Currah

Paisley Currah is a Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies and Political Science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His book Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity is published by New York University Press.

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

Paisley Currah and Robin Dembroff
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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