{"id":29363,"date":"2018-06-01T05:50:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=29363"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:38:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:38:36","slug":"trans-law-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/trans-law-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTrans* Law: Opportunities and Futures\u201d Panel Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knight Law Center<br \/>\n<strong>NEW ROOM LOCATION: Room 175<\/strong><br \/>\n1515 Agate St.<\/p>\n<h4>Panel Discussion: \u201c<b>Trans* Law: Opportunities and Futures<\/b>\u201d<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Paisley Currah, Professor, Brooklyn College &amp; CUNY<\/li>\n<li>Asaf Orr, Attorney, National Center for Lesbian Rights<\/li>\n<li>Moderator: <a href=\"https:\/\/law.uoregon.edu\/people\/faculty\/mweiner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beatrice Dohrn<\/a>, Director, Nonprofit Clinic, UO School of Law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sponsors: Center for the Study of Women in Society, The Tom and Carol Williams Fund for Undergraduate Education, School of Law, Oregon Child Advocacy Project, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Education and Support Services (LGBTESS), Office of the Dean of Students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklyn.cuny.edu\/web\/academics\/faculty\/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=223 https:\/\/paisleycurrah.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Paisley Currah<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29365\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29365\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29365\" src=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Paisley-Currah-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Paisley-Currah-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Paisley-Currah-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Paisley-Currah-260x390.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Paisley-Currah-160x240.jpg 160w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Paisley-Currah.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paisley Currah<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Paisley Currah is a professor of political science and women\u2019s &amp; gender studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written widely on the topics related to transgender rights, sex reclassification policies, and feminism. In his current research, Currah looks at how states classify sex, focusing on the contradictions in definitions of sex (as in M and F) from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and agency to agency. He has also written widely on the transgender rights movement in the United States. His teaching interests include sexuality and gender studies, LGBT studies, feminist theory, queer legal theory, public policy, and political theory, including contemporary political thought, and biopolitics.<\/p>\n<p>With Susan Stryker, he was the founding editor of&nbsp;<em>TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly<\/em>, the flagship journal of transgender studies. Currah co-edited, with Shannon Minter and Richard Juang,&nbsp;<em>Transgender Rights<\/em>, which won the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. As a founding board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute Currah has advocated for transgender rights at all levels of government. He also serves on the board of directors Global Action for Trans Equality (GATE). His book,&nbsp;<em>Sex is as Sex Does: Transgender Identity and the Politics of Classification<\/em>, is forthcoming from New York University Press.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29416\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29416\" class=\" wp-image-29416\" src=\"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Asaf-Orr-220x300-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Asaf-Orr-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Asaf-Orr-220x300-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Asaf-Orr-220x300-160x218.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asaf Orr<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nclrights.org\/about-us\/staff\/asaf-orr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asaf Orr, Esq.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"staffName\">Asaf Orr is the Transgender Youth Project Staff Attorney of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), one of the nation\u2019s leading advocacy organizations for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.<\/p>\n<p>Asaf joined NCLR in 2012 after years of representing students with disabilities and people living with HIV\/AIDS. As NCLR\u2019s Transgender Youth Project Staff Attorney, Asaf works to safeguard the rights of transgender and gender-expansive youth to be affirmed and supported for who they are. By changing the life trajectories of transgender and gender-expansive youth through litigation, public policy, and advocacy, Asaf hopes to create a future where all children can thrive.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly a decade, Asaf worked to advance the rights of the little \u201ct\u201d in LGBT. During that time, he represented transgender youth and their families in a wide range of legal matters including discrimination in schools, child custody disputes, child abuse and neglect, and access to affirming medical and mental health care. He was the lead attorney in <em>Student v. Arcadia Unified School District<\/em>, which resulted in a historic resolution acknowledging that Title IX protects transgender kids from discrimination in schools and led to transgender student guidance released by the Obama Administration in May 2016. He also worked behind the scenes to increase inclusion of transgender athletes in all levels and types of sport; expanded access to transition-related care for Medicaid recipients, including puberty-delaying medications and facial feminization surgery; and supported attorneys representing affirming parents in custody disputes around the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knight Law Center NEW ROOM LOCATION: Room 175 1515 Agate St. Panel Discussion: \u201cTrans* Law: Opportunities and Futures\u201d Paisley Currah, Professor, Brooklyn College &amp; CUNY Asaf Orr, Attorney, National Center for Lesbian Rights Moderator: Beatrice Dohrn, Director, Nonprofit Clinic, UO&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/trans-law-panel\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,697,51],"tags":[56,816,817,818,158],"class_list":["post-29363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-human-rights","category-transgender","tag-csws","tag-paisley-currah","tag-shannon-minter","tag-transgender-and-law","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29363"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32780,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29363\/revisions\/32780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}