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Reproduction And Gender Self-Determination: Fertile Grounds For Trans Legal Advocacy, Samira Seraji
Reproduction And Gender Self-Determination: Fertile Grounds For Trans Legal Advocacy, Samira Seraji
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
Current medical constructions of trans identities reflect heterosexist understandings of gender expression—understandings that deny access to gender-affirming healthcare to those who fail to perform normative binary genders. As medical providers establish norms for how to “properly” be trans, the state codifies these norms, basing trans existence on rigidly defined and harshly enforced understandings of binary gender. When this construction of transness is codified on an institutional level, such as with gender reclassification rules for government identification, it forces trans people to conform their bodies to cisgender norms, and dangerously disrupts trans people’s bodily autonomy and diminishes their control over their …