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040 _aAFVC
100 _aCooper, Davina
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245 _aAbolishing legal sex status :
_bthe challenge and consequences of gender-related law reform
_cDavina Cooper, Robyn Emerton, Emily Grabham, Han J. H. Newman, Elizabeth Peel, Flora Renz and Jessica Smith
260 _aLondon :
_bKing's College London,
_c2022
300 _aelectronic document (48 pages) ; PDF file
520 _aThe Future of Legal Gender was a four-year project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council to explore the current British system which registers and assigns sex at birth and then treats that sex and corresponding gender as a legal status.1 We don’t often think of sex and gender in this way. To put it in context, nationality and marriage are legal statuses that state law registers and regulates, ethnicity and sexuality are not. Being defined as a legal status does not mean that the law always treats people differently as a result. However, specific legal statuses, such as sex, nationality, or marital status, become relevant in different contexts, giving rise to forms of treatment that are often politically contested. What would be the implications, in England & Wales, if the current ‘certification’ system which accords people a legal sex and gender was dismantled so that sex and gender were no longer legally controlled statuses? Would changing how the law assigns and regulates membership in sex and gender categories help or hinder policies to undo gender-based and other forms of inequality? It is important to stress that decertification, as addressed here, does not mean unravelling the legal protections currently in place to advance equality. However, decertification would bring the legal structure for addressing gender and sex-based discrimination and inequality closer to that in operation for other grounds of inequality which do not rely on legally assigned or registered statuses. For instance, discrimination on grounds of race and sexual orientation are unlawful, but people are not legally registered or assigned a sexual orientation or race. (From the report). Record #7737
610 _aThe Future of Legal Gender Project
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650 _aDISCRIMINATION
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650 _aGENDER
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650 _aGENDER EQUALITY
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650 _aINTERSEX
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650 _aLAW REFORM
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650 0 _aLGBTQIA+
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650 _aNON-BINARY
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650 _aSPORT
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650 _aTRANSGENDER
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650 0 _aVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
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650 _aWOMEN
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651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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651 4 _aUNITED KINGDOM
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700 _aEmerton, Robyn
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700 _aGrabham, Emily
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700 _aNewman, Han J. H.
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700 _aPeel, Elizabeth
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700 _aRenz, Flora
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700 _aSmith, Jessica
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856 _uhttps://www.kcl.ac.uk/law/research/future-of-legal-gender-abolishing-legal-sex-status-full-report.pdf
_zDownload report, PDF
856 _uhttps://futureoflegalgender.kcl.ac.uk/
_zThe Future of Legal Gender project website
942 _2ddc
_cREPORT
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