Transgender Rights Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Transgender Rights
Book Review: A definate must read before transitioning at work
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is a very good source of imformation to protect yourself before even thinking about transitioning in a work environment. It is also a good resource for HR employees regarding the rights on trangendered employees.Book Review: A most have legal reference guide
Summary: 5 Stars
This is written with a lot of legal items in it and if you are considering taking on the company, city, state or country then you'll need to read over this book a couple of times. It does have some good points for you to check and some points you need to be aware of. Whether you are TG or dealing with a TG you'll need this book. Some cities and states have gender laws in place that are for us and some are not. This book will help if you decide to take the "MAN".Book Review: The Transgender Movement as social movement
Summary: 5 Stars
This volume of essays conceives transgender as a global social movement for rights, including discussions of law, politics and economics. It is academic in tone, but much of it is accessible to a lay audience. While its essays are wide-ranging, covering such diverse topics as multiculturalism, disability laws and Argentinian concepts of citizenship, there is, to my mind, a theme to these essays: the social contradictions that arise from the attempts of supposedly liberal Western societies to assimilate transgender identity. The title of Jan Morris's gender transition autobiography, "Conundrum," comes to mind. Paisley Currah's discussion of the transgender movement refers to it as one "that seeks the dissolution of the very category under which it is organized." Judith Butler's article about the psychiatric diagnosis of "gender identity disorder" notes that "the price of using the diagnosis to get what one wants is that one cannot use language to say what one really thinks is true." Dean Spade's critique of political economy and the gender compliance it demands discusses how the movement for gender identity non-discrimination constitutes a strategy of normalization that opposes, rather than furthers, the right of gender self-determination central to liberation.
One of the best features of the book is that many of the essays are written by transgender authors, and most of the other authors nonetheless reflect an intimate understanding of the lived experiences of transgender people, rather than an outsider's anthropological perspective. Highly recommended for anyone who wants a broad view of the early 21st century transgender movement.
(originally published at the Transgender Workplace Diversity Blog)
Book Review: important information you need to know
Summary: 5 Stars
this book was jam-packed with information for people like myself and also gave web sites to do more reasurch. It explained the laws and basic rights we have and ways to help overcome discrimination.