WGS365H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Canadian Human Rights Act, Dean Spade, Gender Variance
28 Nov 2016
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We e k 4: tra n s le g a l an a lys is. Last week connections between feminist and queer legal theories. Trans legal analysis new branch of legal analysis - building off feminist analysis, critical race theory, queer legal critique. It"s different from other modes of thinking about gender in the law - it takes critique of queer legal theory, power, law in general - from abstract to actual lived experiences. Leading thinker dean spade - started off in early 2000s in new york - first radical legal trans centre focusing on marginalized problems of gender variant communities - legal scholarly work. Victim-perpetrator mode - bad person doing bad things - law comes into force and fixes the problem as isolated. Bill c-16: amend the canadian human rights act and criminal code, adding gender identity and expression to the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination in the human.
