| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 431 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Transgender Identity and LGBT Rights. Rise of the transgender rights movement and LGBT rights -- Public Attitudes on Transgender Rights. Public opinion about transgender people and policies / with Andrew Flores, Patrick Miller, and Barry Tadlock -- The factors underlying public opinion about transgender rights / with Andrew Flores, Patrick Miller, and Barry Tadlock -- The Political Opportunity Structure and Transgender Rights. Transgender rights and legislative bodies -- Transgender rights and the judiciary / with Jason Pierceson -- Executive branch treatments of transgender rights / with Mitchell Sellers -- Direct democracy and transgender rights -- Transgender Policy. Identity documentation and the regulation of gender -- Discrimination and civil rights -- Health care policy / with Ryan Combs -- Education policy -- Criminal justice and trans identities -- Appendices: LGBT organization financial data ; Interviews ; Survey items for scatter plots in Chapter 2 ; Remarks by Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch on HB2 ; Methodology and sample, June 2015 clear voice research survey ; GfK survey. |
| Summary |
While medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a "collective political identity" is a recent construct. Over the past twenty-five years, the transgender movement has gained statutory nondiscrimination protections at the state and local levels, hate crimes protections in a number of states, inclusion in a federal law against hate crimes, legal victories in the courts, and increasingly favorable policies in bureaucracies at all levels. It has achieved these victories despite the relatively small number of trans people and despite the widespread discrimination, poverty, and violence experienced by many in the transgender community. This is a remarkable achievement in a political system where public policy often favors those with important resources that the transgender community lacks: access, money, and voters. The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights explains the growth of the transgender rights movement despite its marginalized status within the current political opportunity structure. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
Transgender people -- Civil rights.
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Transgender people -- Civil rights. |
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Transgender people. |
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Transgender people -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Transgender people -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Sex and law.
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Sex and law. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Transgender people. |
| Added Author |
Lewis, Daniel C., author.
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Haider-Markel, Donald P., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Taylor, Jami K. Remarkable rise of transgender rights. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018] 9780472074013 (DLC) 2018023916 (OCoLC)1037295340 |
| ISBN |
9780472124275 (electronic book) |
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0472124277 (electronic book) |
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9780472074013 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
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9780472054015 paperback |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.9448956 |
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