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Pride Special: Why the Law Cares About Your Sex

Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast

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The Origins of Transphobia

I think it is in the best interest of, for example, the DMV. If you have someone who appears to be male, that's how they identify for their document to reflect that. It throws kind of everything into chaos if there's that discrepancy. But as the book lays out with the examples of these marriage cases, there are people fighting over money or the custody of their children. And so being able to access that has a whole different kind of outlook in terms of what you're able to do as a citizen.

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