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11 Mich. J. Gender & L. 253 (2004-2005)
Expanding Gender and Expanding the Law: Toward a Social and Legal Conceptualization of Gender That Is More Inclusive of Transgender People

handle is hein.journals/mjgl11 and id is 259 raw text is: EXPANDING GENDER AND EXPANDING THE LAW: TOWARD A SOCIAL AND LEGAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF GENDER THAT IS MORE INCLUSIVE OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE '2Dylan Vade* INTRODUCTION . 255 I. A CONCEPTUALIZATION OF GENDER THAT Is INCLUSIVE AND RESPECTFUL OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE - 264 A. A Description of Transgender Communities • 264 1. Gender Diversity • 265 2. Change and Fluidity • 267 3. Body Diversity • 268 4. Sexual Orientations • 270 5. Diversity of Experiences and Narratives • 271 B. A Non-Linear View of Gender-The Gender Galaxy 273 1. Each Person Has a Gender, a Place in the Gender Galaxy • 275 2. The Multiplicity in the Gender Galaxy Is Not a Void • 277 II. AGAINST THE USE OF THE SEx-GENDER DISTINCTION: IT Is NOT LOGICAL AND IT Is HARMFUL TO TRANSGENDER PEOPLE • 278 A. De-Naturalizing Sex: Sex Is Not to Nature as Gender Is to Culture- Both Sex and Gender Are Social Constructs and Socially Real • 278 Dylan Vade is a transgender attorney and activist who co-founded and co-directed the Transgender Law Center (TLC) in San Francisco. His work at TLC was possible because of fellowships from the Initiative for Public Interest Law at Yale and the Echoing Green Foundation. He has a J.D. from Stanford University, a Ph.D. in Phi- losophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He gives thanks to C.B. Dawson, Abe Doherty, Sheryl Harris, Jaron Kanegson, Danny Kirchoff, Jody Marksamer, Ellise Nicholson, Anna Mills, Johnnie Pratt, Lydia Sausa, Professor Lisa Schwartzman, Shawna Virago, Eli Wadley and many more queer people for shaping his view on gender-and his gender. Thanks to Professor Rita Alfonso, Professor Eduardo Capulong, Shannon Minter, Sondra Solovay, and Dean Spade for their support in writing this piece. Much thanks to Laura Yockey and Tarifa Laddon and all the editors at the Michigan Journal ofGender and Law. And special thanks to Pro- fessor Stuart Biegel for his invaluable insights and support of this article-and of an expanded view of gender.

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