...Wren Ariel Gould Abstract Recent legislation targeting transgender individuals has relied on trans-antagonistic discourses depicting transgender communities as led by a perverse ideology and as attaining the status of a cult. Trans-affirming opponents to these laws have responded...

...Marie Draz Abstract This article examines the temporal politics of the 2017 California Gender Recognition Act (CGRA). The author first offers a brief history of the dominant temporal requirements for “gender recognition” in prior legislation around sex/gender markers on identity documents...

...Valentina Mia Abstract In this essay, now-retired performer Valentina Mia talks about her experiences transitioning and the conditions that led her to join the pornography industry. She interrogates the role of the Trump administration's SESTA/FOSTA legislation and calls for the full...

...Sahar Sadjadi Abstract A recent spate of legislation such as South Dakota's HB 1057, known as the Vulnerable Child Protection Act, seeks to criminalize medical treatment for gender transition in minors under sixteen. This essay argues that these laws do not safeguard children's health but are part...

... by the symbology of the X. Rather than providing a simple visual cue for death and closure, the X is vitalized, through a reading of Bey and Scarface together, as the (un)graphing of law that both inscribes and defaces the biopolitical state, which predicates itself on legislating the difference between genders...

... on My ID campaign to highlight the role of transfeminist activism in changing public opinion and pushing new legislation in one of the flagship countries of the Latin American “left turn.” The unfolding of this campaign demonstrates the dynamic flux and fluidity of state formation as transfeminist...

... under appeal, the case is among the first of its kind anywhere to provide reparations to a trans person for the damage caused by state-sponsored violence and the abrogation of a government's duty to protect. The argument of Ms. G. mirrors the rationale for proposed legislation in the City of Buenos Ares...

... development, it was the feminist, queer, and trans politics in the early aughts that prepared the ground for current trans-exclusionary discourse. In that period, the gender backlash was provoked by moral conservatives, while the legal recognition of transsexual people was legislated under the name...

... have been emerging in different parts of the globe to counter the worldwide discrimination of trans * people in diverse facets of life. Since the 2000s in particular, political activism initiated by trans* people and their allies has raised the awareness of politicians, legislators, and the general...

... Identity Law”). Nomada , June 9 . nomada.gt/cuando-discutiremos-una-ley-de-identidad-de-genero/ . Rojas Espino Ánibal Estuardo 2017 . “ Projecto de ley 5272 para la protección de la vida y la familia ” (“Draft Law 5272 for the Protection of Life and Family”). Draft legislation introduced...

... coalitional political strategies. Collaborative possibilities are evident throughout this special issue, ranging from challenges to legislation and medicine affecting children to coalitional political strategies, from historical and pedagogical reconceptualizations to art initiatives. Such collaborations...

... the medical system without replacing the administrative and named documents. The LIG implicates an advance in terms of human rights with respect to its legislative content. It refuses the subjection of trans bodies and subjectivities to courtrooms, pathologies, and criminalization. It also signifies...

... people to public accommodations, including sex-segregated restrooms (Beauchamp 2019 ; Schilt and Westbrook 2015 ). In short, the lack of political consensus among lawmakers at the national level left a policy vacuum that was subsequently filled by legislators in the more ideologically polarized...

... for the addition of “gender identity” to federal hate crimes enhancements. While the quotidian violence many trans people face — in particular trans women of color — is the material of daily life, this push for the expansion of the prison-industrial complex through hate crimes legislation proliferates violence...

... for kindergarten through grade twelve. This groundbreaking law, which extended the recognition to LGBT people that had already been legislated for many other groups, required that implementation begin in January 2012. Unfortunately, the state provided neither guidance nor funding. Only a handful of districts...

... at the entire society ( Pons 2011 ). It would not be until 2009 that the new General Law of Health in Mexico City was published in the Official Gazette of the Federal District Legislative Assembly ( General Law 2009 ); the law would include, in addition to measures for the prevention of sexually transmitted...

... of surviving as trans people. To the contrary, recent US-based state legislation targeting gender affirming health care access, among a slew of other far-right political efforts to demonize trans, gender-nonconforming, and queer folks, catalyze theory work that might help us grapple with the violence...

... legislative session alone, at least sixty-four bills were introduced in twenty-eight state legislatures, with names such as the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, Protect Women's Sports, and simply Biological Sex. Many of these laws erase transgender people entirely (Sharrow 2021 ) by defining sex...

... coherence of the colonial governance of gender and sexuality. Hinchy highlights the provinciality of CTA criminalization in NWP, presents the multiplicity of voices around and within legislation, and, importantly, locates hijras' everyday resistance to colonial governance, a testament to the tenacity...

..., then they all ended up at the police station, charged with the general crime of “offense to public decency.” At the time, such confrontations with repressive police were part of everyday life for many trans women. It was the era of an urgent battle to achieve legislation that would allow access to treatment...