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Sunday Schedule
Program
Annual
Meeting
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Sunday, January 5, 2003
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8:30-10:15 a.m.
Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues
Peter Kar Yu Kwan, Golden Gate University, Chair |
Harding
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Mezzanine Level |
Transgender Legal Issues and Their Relevance to Bar-Required Courses
Moderator:
Peter Kar Yu Kwan, Golden Gate University
Speakers: - Kylar Broadus, State Legislative Manager and Staff Counsel, Human Rights Campaign, Washington, D.C.
- Phyllis Randolph Frye, Esquire, Houston, Texas
- Alyson D. Meiselman, Esquire, North Potomac, Maryland
- Shannon Minter, Legal Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, California
This is the first program of the Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues under its new name. Partly to reflect the policy reasons for the name change in a continual process to center the marginalized (that included recent past programs on issues of racial minorities within the LGBT community), this year's program focuses on the transgendered community. Despite recent landmark judicial decisions, important law review publications and even mainstream press coverage, discussions on transgender legal issues at law schools remain few, and largely confined to one or two classes within elective seminars on feminism or sexual orientation. This program intends to remedy this by gathering together some of the nation's leading transgendered public interest attorneys and legal writers to show how legal issues relating to the transgendered community, far from being of marginal interest and concern, are in fact integral and part of the fabric of all legal and social investigations, even so-called traditional, bar-required courses.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion
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