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To Protect Or Not To Protect, An Empirical Approach To Predicting Where The Fourth Circuit Would Stand On Coverage For Sexual Orientation Discrimination Under Title Vii, Mary Stuart King
South Carolina Law Review
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Does Sex Discrimination Include Gender Identity, Courts In The Fourth Circuit Weigh In On The Question, Rena M. Lindevaldsen
Does Sex Discrimination Include Gender Identity, Courts In The Fourth Circuit Weigh In On The Question, Rena M. Lindevaldsen
South Carolina Law Review
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Contracting Around Gender Constructs: Transgender Men At Women's Colleges, Elizabeth A. Heise
Contracting Around Gender Constructs: Transgender Men At Women's Colleges, Elizabeth A. Heise
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
As the transgender community gains increasing visibility in society, women’s colleges have begun to address new questions about who is eligible to attend. One such question is whether students who come out as transgender men after matriculation are eligible to remain enrolled and graduate from these institutions. The main claims relevant to this discussion are (1) colleges’ right to retain their identity as all-women’s institutions; (2) the parallel rights of cisgender female students who explicitly choose to attend an all-women’s institution, and (3) transgender students’ competing right to avoid arbitrary or capricious dismissal based on gender identity. This Note posits …
Transparenthood, Sonia K. Katyal, Ilona M. Turner
Transparenthood, Sonia K. Katyal, Ilona M. Turner
Michigan Law Review
Despite the growing recognition of transgender rights in both law and culture, there is one area of law that has lagged behind: family law’s treatment of transgender parents. We perform an investigation of the way that transgender parents are treated in case law and discover striking results regarding the outcomes for transgender parents within the family court system. Despite significant gains for transgender plaintiffs in employment and other areas of law, the evidence reveals an array of ways in which the family court system has systematically alienated the rights and interests of transgender parents. In many cases involving custody or …