Topic
Transgender
168 published works
Legal Theory Blog
Byars on Bostock
Kaleb Byars (Mercer University - Walter F. George School of Law) has posted Bostock: An Inevitable Guarantee of Heightened Scrutiny for Sexual Orientation and Transgender Classifications on SSRN. Here is…
Religion Clause
Suit Challenges School District’s Speech Policy
Suit was filed this week in an Oregon federal district court by a clinical social worker employed by an Oregon school district challenging the application of the district's Speech Policy…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Reconceptualizing Anti-Trans Laws as a Broader Effort to Reinscribe Gender Binary
By Tracy Thomas
Laura Lane-Steele, The Sex Alignment Project, 78 Fla. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) The legal opposition to trans health care bans, “save women’s sports” acts, and related laws has characterized these laws’…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
UK Supreme Court Says Trans Women are Not Legally Women Under Equality Act
By Tracy Thomas
UK Supreme Court Says Trans Women are Not Legally Women Under Equality ActThe Supreme Court in Britain ruled on Wednesday that trans women do not fall within the legal definition of…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Transgender Students’ Fundamental Right to Self-Identify at School
By Tracy Thomas
Garreth W. McCrudden, Transgender Students and the Fundamental Right to Self-Identify at School, 31 UCLA J. Gender & L. 75 (2025)Public schools across the United States are introducing name/pronoun policies that…
PrawfsBlawg
Fairness in sports
Main Saturday, March 22, 2025Fairness in sportsThis piece by Jonathan V. Last is the best argument against the simplistic "fairness" argument related to trans girls playing girls sports. Sports are…
Legal Theory Blog
Bhatnagar on Gender and the Indian Constitution
Dr. Shreshth Bhatnagar (St Joseph's College of Law Bengaluru) has posted GENDER EQUALITY AND INDIAN CONSTITUTION: A FORMATIVE APPROACH TOWARDS CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Mahatma Gandhi…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Transgender Disenfranchisement in Political and Public Spaces
By Tracy Thomas
Scott Skinner-Thompson (Colorado), Transgender Disenfranchisement, 102 Washington U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025)Transgender and gender variant people are excluded from formal democratic participation at the polls through a variety of legal mechanisms. …
Legal Theory Blog
Skinner-Thompson on Transgender Disenfranchisement
Scott Skinner-Thompson (University of Colorado Law School) has posted Transgender Disenfranchisement (102 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Transgender and gender variant people are…
PrawfsBlawg
Trans rights and social movements
Main Friday, December 06, 2024Trans rights and social movementsI had interesting email exchanges with readers regarding my posts on trans issues. I wanted to lay out a few of the…