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Human Rights Contestations: Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity, Anthony Chase
Human Rights Contestations: Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity, Anthony Chase
Anthony Chase
This article asks if and why sexual orientation and gender identity-related rights should connect to a human rights framework. To answer that question it begins by addressing how we understand what makes human rights resonate or not resonate and if addressing a contentious issue such as sexual orientation or gender identity from within a human rights frame advances or detracts from such resonance. The argument developed in response is anti-foundational: i.e., that human rights’ resonance has not come from some universally valid extra-political foundational source but, rather, comes from how human rights have been transformed (at times) into tools that …