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Drawing Bisexuality Back Into The Picture: How Bisexuality Fits Into Lgbt Legal Strategy 10 Years After Bisexual Erasure, Heron Greenesmith
Drawing Bisexuality Back Into The Picture: How Bisexuality Fits Into Lgbt Legal Strategy 10 Years After Bisexual Erasure, Heron Greenesmith
Heron Greenesmith
In 2000, Kenji Yoshino published a paper exploring the social erasure of bisexuality. He introduces the paper by empirically proving that bisexuality was invisible through a quick survey of popular news sources that featured volumes more articles about homosexuality than bisexuality. Once he shows that bisexuality is invisible, he makes sure to distinguish between the incidental invisibility of bisexuality, perhaps because of the low number of bisexuals, and its deliberate erasure. Erasure is a deliberate act that involves the participation of people who seek to erase. Yoshino theorizes that monosexuals (heterosexuals and homosexuals) created an epistemic contract to erase bisexuality …
Sex Is Not Enough: How Schroer Teaches Us That Transgender Employees Need Explicit Protection From Discrimination, Heron Greenesmith
Sex Is Not Enough: How Schroer Teaches Us That Transgender Employees Need Explicit Protection From Discrimination, Heron Greenesmith
Heron Greenesmith
In Schroer v. Billington, Judge Robertson of the DC District Court held that transgender employees are protected from discrimination by Title VII's prohibition on discrimination "because of . . . sex." While the decision was a ground breaking one, this article argues that it is not enough to truly protect transgender employees from discrimination. The article advocates that to provide true protection, Congress should pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which provides explicit protection for employees on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity