Topic
Transgender
168 published works
For Good
Advancing Transgender Equality & Inclusion in Sports, Health Care and Public Life
By Erin Meyer
On June 24, 2021, the Governor of New York signed into law the Gender Recognition Act, and Proskauer employees came together in celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month to support transgender…
The Right Coast
District Must Reinstate Teacher Who Opposed Transgenderism PJ Media
On Tuesday, a judge ordered the Loudoun County, Va., school district to reinstate a physical education teacher who dared to speak out against a policy that would require teachers to…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Public School Teachers and Transgender Students and Pronouns
By Tracy Thomas
Caroline Mala Corbin, Public School Teachers & Transgender Students & Pronouns, Balkinization, March 19, 2020 This is a short review essay of Helen Norton’s book, The Government’s Speech and the Constitution.…
Benefits Law Advisor
Washington Steps Up Insurance Protections for Gender Affirming Treatments
By Craig A. Day
As some states make headlines for so-called “anti-trans” laws, the Washington state legislature rejected a bill designed to limit youth participation in sports based on their gender as assigned on…
Religion Clause
OCR and Justice Back Off Trump Administration Policy On Transgender High School Athletes
The Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has signaled a that it is reversing the Trump Administration's policy that did not permit transgender women to compete in women's…
Simple Justice
Up In Smoke
Not having read Abigail Shrier’s book, Irreversible Damage, The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, the only thing I know about it comes from its description. Until just a few years…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Eleventh Circuit Holds that Title IX Protects Transgender Students
By Tracy Thomas
Federal Appeals Court: Title IX Protects Transgender StudentsThe United States Supreme Court's historic June 15 decision about LGBTQ workers' rights had its first impact on how courts define sex discrimination at colleges. The…
ContractsProf Blog
Guest Post by Joshua Silverstein on Bostock, Part II
THOUGHTS REGARDING BOSTOCK V. CLAYTON COUNTY, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION HOLDING THAT TITLE VII PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND TRANSGENDER STATUS. A Guest Post by Joshua Silverstein…
The Faculty Lounge
Seeking Judicial Courtesy in the Fifth Circuit
I am proud to be among the 83 signatories to the Legal Ethics Professors Amicus Brief in U.S. v. Varner, calling upon the Fifth Circuit en banc to vacate a…
PrawfsBlawg
On Account of Sex
Main Tuesday, September 17, 2019On Account of SexNext month, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a set if cases that pose the question of what "sex" means in Title…