Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender Peoples' Engagement with Legal Regulation

by Flora Renz

Overview

Analysing the strategies people use to resist, accept and respond to laws that attempt to shape not just their behaviour, but also their identity, this book pursues a critical engagement with legal gender transition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367566432
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/27/2025
Series:	Social Justice
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Flora Renz is Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Sexuality, Race and Gender Justice at Kent Law School, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Proving “Commitment”: GRC Applications and the Performance of Normative Gender Identities 2. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 – Between Governance and Agency 3. Being “Well Prepared” or “Being Put on a Register”: Diverse Engagements with the Gender Recognition Act 4. From Heroism to Empathy: Emotional Engagements with Gender Regulation 5. Questioning the Legitimacy of Legal Gender Regulation

Editorial Reviews

"Renz’s book is an important contribution in this moment for bringing us back to the legislation and how it practically impacts the people whom it was designed to help. Forme, this is first and foremostwhy this book is important. Nonetheless, it also makes important theoretical contributions, perhaps most persuasively in relation to legal consciousness but also to agency and emotion. Any scholarship engaging with these ideas will also find in Renz’s book an important and stimulating contribution." Chris Ashford, Northumbria Law School, Northumbria University, UK. 

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