" Transgender Rights packs a surprising amount of information into a small space. Offering spare, tightly executed essays, this slim volume nonetheless succeeds in creating a spectacular, well-researched compendium of the transgender movement." -Law Library Journal Over the past three decades, the transgender movement has gained visibility and achieved significant victories. Discrimination has been prohibited in several states, dozens of municipalities, and more than two hundred private companies, while hate crime laws in eight states have been amended to include gender identity. Yet prejudice and violence against transgender people remain all too common. With analysis from legal and policy experts, activists and advocates, Transgender Rights assesses the movement’s achievements, challenges, and opportunities for future action. Examining crucial topics like family law, employment policies, public health, economics, and grassroots organizing, this groundbreaking book is an indispensable resource in the fight for the freedom and equality of those who cross gender boundaries. Moving beyond media representations to grapple with the real lives and issues of transgender people, Transgender Rights will launch a new moment for human rights activism in America. Contributors: Kylar W. Broadus, Judith Butler, Mauro Cabral, Dallas Denny, Taylor Flynn, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Julie A. Greenberg, Morgan Holmes, Bennett H. Klein, Jennifer L. Levi, Ruthann Robson, Nohemy Solórzano-Thompson, Dean Spade, Kendall Thomas, Paula Viturro, Willy Wilkinson. Paisley Currah is associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College, executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a founding board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute. Richard M. Juang cochairs the advisory board of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) in Washington, DC. He has taught at Oberlin College and Susquehanna University. He is the lead editor of NCTE's Responding to Hate Crimes: A Community Resource Manual and coeditor of Transgender Justice, which explores models of activism. Shannon Price Minter is legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and a founding board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute. "At last! Transgender Rights is the only book any activist, ally, or family member should really need to figure out the tactics of most if not all gender bullies and stop them dead in their tracks.  Yippee for the good guys, the good girls, and all the rest of us good folks."―Kate Bornstein, author of Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws "A valuable contribution to understanding this evolving edge of human experience."―Susan Stryker, independent scholar and filmmaker "This book introduces transgender/transsexual/intersex social, political, and legal issues to a broad audience. I think this is an urgently important configuration of concerns, and I was moved, grateful, and profoundly excited to find that the editors have brought into being a collection that presents them so well."―Janet Halley, Harvard Law School " Transgender Rights is a must for any transperson, family member, or parent who is concerned with transgenders’s legal rights."―Dave Parker, President of PFLAG Transgender Network "This is a cutting-edge book full of new information and new ideas."―Patrick Califia, author of Public Sex and Sex Changes "This closely reasoned and researched volume explores the many avenues available to those who are otherly-gendered in our culture. Authors of the essays are highly knowledgeable and involved in the ongoing trans revolution/evolution. These informative essays will not only provide guideposts for the transgender individual, but will offer information on the legal, historical, and political aspect for their questioning family, friends, and allies."― Lavender " Transgender Rights packs a surprising amount of information into a small space. Offering spare, tightly executed essays, this slim volume nonetheless succeeds in creating a spectacular, well-researched compendium of the transgender movement. By giving voice to the needs and a blueprint for survival of transgender people, it opens a window affording mainstream America a view of the extreme difficulties and injustices this community suffers on a daily basis. It also documents the inroads made into changing laws and cultural perceptions with respect to transgender people and the fearlessness required of these individuals to rightfully live as their authentic selves. As each essay cites to a wealth of valuable resources, librarians whose institutions collect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and/or human rights materials will find in the footnotes a wonderful collection development aid. Sure to be considered a classic."― Law Library Journal "With Transgender Rights, Paisely Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price