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...Leon Laidlaw; Natasha Stirrett Abstract This article argues that trans rights are trapped within settler frameworks of gender and rights, therefore making them incompatible with and in opposition to Indigenous lifeways. Starting with the premise that engagement with the settler state is not benign...

... in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The human rights perspective is a relatively new field for advocacy toward equality for trans and gender-variant people on the global level...

.... In particular, the authors propose that the use of the concept of human rights by truth commissions, as well as its inclusion in public policies, has largely excluded trans and travesti women. This text therefore introduces the concept of antitrans state terrorism and, given the limited studies that exist...

...Claire Pamment Abstract Pakistani hijra / khwaja siras make up structured communities of feminine-identified gender-variant persons who have long but marginalized traditions of performing religious-cultural roles. Supreme Court rulings in 2009, promising rights to marginalized khwaja siras, have...

...Joshua Franklin Abstract In 2007, a Brazilian federal appeals court ruled that gender affirming care was guaranteed on the basis of the constitutional right to health. This is part of a broader process of the “judicialization” of the right to health in Brazil. In this essay, the author draws...

... predation TERFism and Zionism, both of which are defined by an “extinction phobia” that confuses oppressor and oppressed, presenting the subordinate party as capable of eliminating the dominant one. This extinction phobia transforms into “right-wing annihilationism” via a dehumanization of the subordinate...

.... , and Stryker Susan . 2016 . “ Introduction: Trans/Feminisms .” TSQ 3 , nos. 1–2 : 5 – 14 . Butler Judith . 1990 . Gender Trouble . Abingdon, UK : Routledge . Currah Paisley . 2006 . “ Gender Pluralisms under the Transgender Umbrella .” In Transgender Rights , edited...

... , Paternotte David , and Kuhar Roman . 2018 . “ The Globalisation of Anti-gender Campaigns: Transnational Anti-gender Movements in Europe and Latin America Create Unlikely Alliances .” International Politics and Society , May 31 . www.ips-journal.eu/topics/human-rights/article/show...

... Ecuador queer rights Transgender as an expression of gender identity, and transfeminism as a mode of politics, are increasingly visible within academic debates about gender and sexuality. Transfeminism exists in the “contact zone” between feminism as an analytic lens for a broad set of cultural...

...Jinsun Yang Abstract Trans inclusion policies remain one of the major issues facing contemporary trans rights movements in the United States. In sports, where sex segregation has rarely been challenged, trans inclusionary policies have emerged as a public debate in which key values of liberal...

... element of their political and individual trajectory of subjectivation. In contrast, historiographical reconstructions of Italian feminist movements as well as feminists' accounts never mention the transsexual movement. During battles for the right to change one's gender, transsexuals were supported...

...Susan Stryker Abstract Tommi Avicolli Mecca, born in Philadelphia in 1951, moved to San Francisco in 1991 and quickly established himself as a leading queer performance artist, playwright, and newspaper columnist as well as a leading housing rights and antigentrification activist. This interview...

... include myriad of expressions, bringing to view the notion of identity as partial, contradictory, and not easily read. And yet, the popular media talk and discussions on the transsexual subject are mostly by way of the bathroom: worries about accommodations, rights, and problems concerning violence...

...Alejandra Wundram Pimentel; Mónica Leonardo Segura Abstract Identification documents are essential for the recognition of individuals within the nation-state. By denying trans people the right to change the M or the F on these documents, governments perpetuate perceptions of trans people as frauds...