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Sexual Intimacy and Gender Identity 'Fraud'

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This book is a legal and political intervention into a contemporary debate concerning the appropriateness of sexual offence prosecutions brought against young gender non-conforming people for so-called ‘gender identity fraud'. It comes down squarely against prosecution. To that end, it offers a series of principled objections based both on liberal principles, and arguments derived from queer and feminist theories. Thus prosecution will be challenged as criminal law overreach and as a spectacular example of legal inconsistency, but also as indicative of a failure to grasp the complexity of sexual desire and its disavowal. In particular, the book will think through the concepts of consent, harm and deception and their legal application to these speci?c forms of intimacy. In doing so, it will reveal how cisnormativity frames the legal interpretation of each and how this serves to preclude more marginal perspectives. Beyond law, the book takes up the ethical challenge of the non-disclosure of gender history. Rather than dwelling on this omission, it argues that we ought to focus on a cisgender demand to know as the proper object of ethical inquiry. Finally, and as an act of legal and ethical re-imagination, the book offers a queer counter-judgment to R v McNally, the only case involving a gender non-conforming defendant, so far, to have come before the Court of Appeal.

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ISBN: 9781138502550
Publication date: 20th February 2018
Author: Alex Sharpe
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 224 pages
Genres: Criminal law: procedure and offences
Legal aspects of criminology
Crime and criminology
Social law and Medical law
Sociology
Gender studies, gender groups
Law and society, gender issues