Transgender RightsPaisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter, editors $19.95 Paper | ISBN 0-8166-4312-1 The first comprehensive work on the transgender civil rights movement. Over the past three decades, the transgender movement has gained visibility and achieved significant victories. Discrimination has been prohibited in several states, dozens of municipalities, and more than two hundred private companies, while hate crime laws in eight states have been amended to include gender identity. Yet prejudice and violence against transgender people remain all too common. With analysis from legal and policy experts, activists and advocates, Transgender Rights assesses the movement’s achievements, challenges, and opportunities for future action. Examining crucial topics like family law, employment policies, public health, economics, and grassroots organizing, this groundbreaking book is an indispensable resource in the fight for the freedom and equality of those who cross gender boundaries. Moving beyond media representations to grapple with the real lives and issues of transgender people, Transgender Rights will launch a new moment for human rights activism in America. Contributors: Kylar W. Broadus, Judith Butler, Mauro Cabral, Dallas Denny, Taylor Flynn, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Julie A. Greenberg, Morgan Holmes, Bennett H. Klein, Jennifer L. Levi, Ruthann Robson, Nohemy Solórzano-Thompson, Dean Spade, Kendall Thomas, Paula Viturro, Willy Wilkinson. “At last! Transgender Rights is the only book any activist, ally, or family member should really need to figure out the tactics of most if not all gender bullies and stop them dead in their tracks. Yippee for the good guys, the good grrls, and all the rest of us good folks.” —Kate Bornstein, author of Hello, Cruel World “This is a cutting-edge book full of new information and new ideas.” —Patrick Califia, author of Public Sex and Sex Changes “A valuable contribution to understanding this evolving edge of human experience.” —Susan Stryker, independent scholar and filmmaker “This book introduces transgender/transsexual/intersex social, political, and legal issues to a broad audience. I think this is an urgently important configuration of concerns, and was moved, grateful, and profoundly excited to find that the editors have brought into being a collection that presents them so well.” —Janet Halley, Harvard Law School Paisley Currah is associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College, executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a founding board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute. Richard M. Juang is assistant professor of English at Susquehanna University and cochair of the National Center for Transgender Equality Advisory Board. Shannon Price Minter is legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and a founding board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute. 400 pages | 5 7⁄8 x 9 | 2006 |