POLS 3124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gender Dysphoria, Vaginoplasty, Hysterectomy

• School: Temple University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3124
• Professor: Mitchell Sellers

Document Summary

Few protections until after 2000: mostly local governments including in minnesota and iowa. About half the states protected transgender people after 2000: particularly most heavily-populated cities, ex: bathroom bills. Problems in recognition: states can decide name/gender marker change policy. Mostly northern and coastal states allow gender marker changes on driver"s license and birth certi cates. South and midwest pass a lot of anti-lgbt state laws. Barriers: lack of clarity in rules and knowledge, expense, some states require surgery, some states have banned gender marker changes, judges have discretion to deny valid requests. Genda is the employment non-discrimination act for sexual identity. Transgender accommodations: changing name/gender on record, nondiscrimination policies, calling a trans person by their name of choice, recognition of identity through single-sex facility access and marriage bene ts. Pols 3124: bans discrimination, clari es access to single-sex areas, directs agency employees accordingly. Female-to-male: testosterone, surgery: mastectomy, hysterectomy, phalloplasty, medioplasty.