Transforming the debate: Why we need to include transgender rights in the struggles for sex and sexual orientation equality

Columbia Law Review

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 392-

  Flynn, Taylor ^a  

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EID: 0041335356     PISSN: 00101958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1123803     Document Type: Review

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1. I use this phrase to identify persons for whom a component of our lives includes same-sex love, attraction, or intimacy. For simplicity, this Essay at times refers to people with a same-sex orientation as "gay." Because this usage may contribute to a discourse that renders lesbians and bisexuals invisible, this Essay also uses the term "les/bi/gay."
2. See Jamison Green, Introduction to Paisley Currah & Shannon Minter, Transgender Equality: A Handbook for Activists and Policymakers 1 (2000). Other synonyms for transgender that are also used in this Essay include "gender variant," "gender non-conforming," and "trans." I also use the term "sexual minorities" to refer collectively to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals.
3. An increasing number of gay men and lesbians are identifying themselves as transgendered, whether because of a nonconforming gender presentation or in