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10 Law & Sexuality: Rev. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Legal Issues 123 (2001)
The Gender Caste System: Identity, Privacy, and Heteronormativity

handle is hein.journals/lsex10 and id is 129 raw text is: The Gender Caste System: Identity, Privacy, and Heteronormativity Jillian Todd Weiss* I defend my right to be complex. -Leslie Feinbergt I. TRANSSEXUALITY AND THE CASTE SYSTEM .................................... 123 A. The Existence of the Caste System .......................................... 123 B. Caste Prejudice ........................................................................ 132 II. TRANSSEXUALITY AND CRITICAL LEGAL THEORY: UNVEILING THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CASTE SYSTEM ................ 134 A. Deconstructing Caste .............................................................. 134 B. The Transsexual Caste and Their Reality ............................... 138 C. The Oppression of Caste ......................................................... 146 D. Unveiling a Non-Caste, Non-Heteronormative Gender Theory: Physical Sex and Psychological Gender Are Divisible and Separable .......................................................... 155 IMl. CoNSTITUTIoNAL DIMENSIONS OF =H CASTE SYSTEM .................. 167 A. The Right to Privacy Is the Right to a Private Life: Self-D etermination ................................................................... 167 B. The Right to Privacy Is a Right to Keep Sensitive Private Information Private: Self-Identification ................... 171 C. The Differences Between the Sexes Do Not Require Governmental Interference with Self-Determination and Self-Identification ............................................................. 174 IV. CONCLUSION: SCRAPPING THE CASTE SYSTEM-A NEW LEGAL THEORY OF GENDER ............................................................. 182 L TRANSSEXUALITY AND THE CASTE SYSTEM A. The Existence of the Caste System The heterosexual norm is the idea that people are, by virtue of heredity and biology, exclusively and aggressively heterosexual: males * B.A. Yeshiva University, J.D. Seton Hall University School of Law. Comments and questions may be directed to jtweissny@aol.com. S LSLIE FEINBERG, TRANSLIBEATION: BEYoND PINK OR BLUE 70 (1998). 123

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