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The Child Client: Representing Children In Child Protective Proceedings, Merril Sobie
The Child Client: Representing Children In Child Protective Proceedings, Merril Sobie
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Paradoxes Of Health And Equality: When A Boy Becomes A Girl, Noa Ben-Asher
Paradoxes Of Health And Equality: When A Boy Becomes A Girl, Noa Ben-Asher
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This paper is about an unusual child custody dispute between the parents of a six-year-old child and the child welfare services of Franklin County, Ohio. The conflict emerged when the child’s parents complied with their male child’s professed desire to be treated as a girl by attempting to enroll the child in the first grade as a girl. The paper treats this case as an exemplary test-case of contemporary co-dependence between scientific-medical discourse and liberal-rights discourse. The paper analyzes the positions of the two sides of the custody dispute according to the classic modern distinction between mind and body. On …