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  1. The International Bill of Gender Rights vs. The Cider House Rules: Transgenders Struggle with the Courts Over What Clothing They are Allowed to Wear on the Job, Which Restroom They are Allowed to Use on the Job, Their Rights to Marry, and the Very Definition of Their Sex

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph
    Date: Autumn 2000
    Topics: Acceptance, Bathrooms, Civil rights, Clothing, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Hate crimes, Intersex, Law, MtFs, Olympics, Personal and family law, Physicians, Prisoners, Stereotypes, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Women's movement
    Subject: Christie Lee Littleton, Cider House Rules, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), International Bill of Gender Rights (IBGR), International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP), Joanna McNamara, Littleton v. Prange, Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), Price Waterhouse, Schwenk v. Hartford
    Description: Frye describes the article: "My first law review – it is 85 pages long. The first half is a comprehensive legal history of the discrimination against transgenders. The second half contains strategi...
  2. "What Sort of Beast Was I?" Thinking Beyond Gender in India

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Vanita, Ruth
    Date: Oct. 1997
    Topics: Ashrams, Hijras, Indian LGBTQ+ people, Non-Euro-American gender and sexual identities, QTPOC, South Asian LGBTQ+ people, Vārkarī sect, Women authors, South Asian, Women's movement
    Description: This article discusses how Indian society creates narratives for opting out of gender categories, of non-victimhood, and of alliances across identity boundaries. It is excerpted from a longer essay...