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Sexuality and the Law

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

2013

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The Right To (Trans) Parent: A Reproductive Justice Approach To Reproductive Rights, Fertility, And Family-Building Issues Facing Transgender People, Laura Nixon Dec 2013

The Right To (Trans) Parent: A Reproductive Justice Approach To Reproductive Rights, Fertility, And Family-Building Issues Facing Transgender People, Laura Nixon

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

In focusing on fertility preservation and the whiff of eugenics in state statutes, this Article aims to make several contributions to issues at the intersection of the LGBT and reproductive health, rights, and justice movements. This Article will show how the reproductive health issues of transgender people remain shadowed in the mainstream LGBT movement and reproductive health and rights movement. This Article will use reproductive justice principles to provide new entry points for LGBT advocates and reproductive health and rights advocates to build alliances around gender, sexuality, and reproduction by highlighting opportunities for reproductive justice advocates to engage on reproductive …