Organizing for Transgender Rights: Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement

by Anthony J Nownes and Anthony J. Nownes

Book Overview

In recent years, gender-variant people--including those we now call transgender people--have won public policy victories that had previously seemed unwinnable: the American Psychiatric Association replaced the term "gender identity disorder" with "gender dysphoria" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the Department of Justice announced that discrimination on the basis of gender identity constituted sex discrimination,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438473001
• ISBN13: 9781438473000
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"