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Court cases affecting transgendered people.

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• Brockton MA Court Rules in Favor of Transgender Student (2000)

  http://www.glad.org/current/pr-detail/brockton-court-rules-in-favor-of-transgender-student/
  Positive: A Massachusetts Superior Court ruled that a middle school may not prohibit a transgender student from expressing her gender identity even if that expression does not conform with the sex ascribed to her at birth.

• Columbia High Court Restricts Intersex Genital Mutilation (1999)

  http://www.isna.org/colombia/
  Positive: two decisions restricting the ability of parents and doctors to operate on children born with atypical genitals. Press release in English, brief and opinion are in Spanish.

• Couple fights for son, 6, they say is girl at heart

  http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/TSChildCustody.html
  "A Westerville couple is fighting to regain custody of their 6-year-old boy, whom they said was taken by social workers because they let the child dress and act like he's a girl," a news story from the Columbus Dispatch.

• Hernandez-Montiel v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (9th Cir., 2000)

  http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F3/225/1084/499789/
  Positive: A U.S. federal court of appeals finds that a transgendered Mexican woman "had a well-founded fear of future persecution and was entitled to asylum and withholding of deportation."

• Schwenk v. Hartford (9th Cir., 2000)

  http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1452083.html
  Positive: a federal Court of Appeals found that discrimination "because one fails to act in the way expected of a man or woman" may violate federal sex discrimination laws.

 

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