Gender-Affirming Care, Abortion, and the Politics of Science: A Response to Wuest’s ‘Born this Way’
Wuest highlights the contingency of scientific claims not only in LGBTQ+ advocacy but also in legal advocacy for and against abortion access.
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Read more: Affirming Nondiscrimination Rights: HHS Needs to Acknowledge a Private Right of Action for Section 1557 Violations Affirming Nondiscrimination Rights: HHS Needs to Acknowledge a Private Right of Action for Section 1557 Violations
HHS should formally acknowledge that individuals have a legal right to enforce Section 1557 when they experience prohibited health care discrimination.
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Read more: Now Is the Time for a Sex-Based Civil Rights Movement in Health Care Now Is the Time for a Sex-Based Civil Rights Movement in Health Care
The Biden administration and all three branches of government are poised to finally deliver a sex-based civil rights movement in health care.
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Read more: Too Young For Sex, But Old Enough For The Sex Offender Registry, Part III Too Young For Sex, But Old Enough For The Sex Offender Registry, Part III
By Michele Goodwin I conclude Part III in this series from Uganda—a nation recovering from what one doctor describes as a “genocide” from HIV and AIDS. Parts I and II can be found here and here. As a society, do we really care that teens and preteens have sex? On the one hand we care…
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Read more: Too Young for Sex, But Old Enough for the Sex Offender Registry, Part II Too Young for Sex, But Old Enough for the Sex Offender Registry, Part II
By Michele Goodwin This post is the second in a three part series on the use of criminal law to police teen sex. The first part can be viewed here. In recent years, thousands of judicial proceedings against children result in teens as young as thirteen being adjudicated as sexual predators and placed on sex…
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Read more: Too Young for Sex, But Old Enough for the Sex Offender Registry, Part I Too Young for Sex, But Old Enough for the Sex Offender Registry, Part I
By Michele Goodwin This post is the first in a three part series on the use of criminal law to police teen sex. A recent study by Human Rights Watch suggests that statutory rape law is a poor tool for reducing teen sexuality. Their study and my forthcoming article, Law’s Limits: Regulating Statutory Rape Law,…