Respect and equality : transsexual and transgender rights / Stephen Whittle.

London ; Portland, OR : Cavendish Pub., 2002.

xxiii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.

1. Disembodies law: trans people's legal (outer)space -- 2. Legal madness: transsexualism -- 3. Transsexual denial: socially constructing the legal body -- 4. Still gender fucking or still fucking gender? -- 5. The trans-cyberian mail way -- 6. Institutionalised employment discrimination and transsexual people -- 7. Sex and marriage: go together like a...? -- 8. Gemeinschaftsfremden - or how to be shafted by your friends: sterilisation requirements and legal status recognitition for the transsexual -- 9. Seeking a gendered adolescence: liability and ethics surrounding adolescents with gender dysphoria -- 10. European transgender rights: new identity politics for a new age -- 11. The praxis and politics of polcing: problems facing trans people -- 12. Prison provision for trans people -- 13. 'Gender identity': proposed additional protocol broadening Article 14 of the European Convention; the need for express inclusion -- 14. Surgical requirements for legal recognition: why a vaginectomy should not be demanded of a transsexual man -- 15. Transsexual people in the military -- 16. A temporary asylum appeal for a transsexual prisoner.

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