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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Dec. 1, 2007

Advances in Employment Nondiscrimination Ignore Transgendered

Forum Column - By Diane J. Klein - New federal anti-discrimination legislation moving through Congress is creating a rift among activists who work for the rights of sexual minorities.

FORUM COLUMN

By Diane J. Klein

      Sometime in the 1920s, President Calvin Coolidge famously remarked that "The business of America is business." In fact, however, a recurring - albeit illegitimate - part of the conduct of American business has long consisted in policing gendered norms of identity and behavior in the workplace. Time and again, civil rights advocates have challenged gender-based ideas about who is entitled to contr...

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