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"How the Women’s Rights Movement Paved the Way for Transgender Equality--and the Work that Remains to be Done" Presentation by Dr. Paisley Currah
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Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 42.910785, -76.799734
Wesleyan Chapel, 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls
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45 minutes
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The misclassification of trans people was historically a consequence not simply of transphobia, but of the denial to women of the rights and resources available to men. When transgender people first attempted to change their sex classification, they came up against system built long ago to ensure sex-based legal subordination. Feminists’ work to end the inequality of women before the law eventually led to the dismantling of many of the barriers that hindered transgender equality. But we find ourselves in a different moment. How will the attack on transgender rights currently happening in state legislatures affect the larger movement for gender equality?
Paisley Currah is the author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (NYU Press, 2022) and a professor of political science and women’s & gender studies at the City University of New York.
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Paisley Currah