Pride Special: Why the Law Cares About Your Sex
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Sex Is as Sex Does: Regulating Transgender Identity
Paisley Cura is a professor of political science and women's and gender studies at Brooklyn College. His new book explores what it means when there are contradictions in how the state categorizes trans people's identities. He argues that the act of categorizing people based on their gender or sex reflects what function it serves for a particular institution. "I really wanted to get beyond thinking about the injustice of it, which is still important"
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