To What Extent Have the Rights of Transgender People Been Underrealized in Comparison to the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer/Questioning People in the United Kingdom?
| Autor: | Thomas Stocks |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Transgenderism. 16:1-35 |
| ISSN: | 1434-4599 1553-2739 |
| Popis: | This article aims to consider how LGBT+ people have been excluded from human rights practice in the United Kingdom using data from a survey based on the Yogyakarta Principles (YPs). This article proceeds according to the following hypotheses: that LGBT+ rights in the UK have been underrealised, that transgender people have been particularly at risk of human rights abuses in the UK in comparison to other people included under the LGBT+ banner, and that transgender people will therefore have experienced a wider array of rights abuses more consistently. This article also hypothesizes that transgender people that inhabit multiple spaces of citizenship outside of heteronormativity will be at a further increased risk of human rights abuses. These hypotheses are based on a literature review that demonstrates the imbalanced and slow progression of LGBT+ rights that has, particularly in the UK, favored the progression of sexual rights over transgender rights and the maintenance of heteronormativity which a... |
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