There are many under-represented, targeted, or marginalized groups in our communities that face challenges of discrimination and inequity in various areas of public life, among them the transgender community. Although an increasing number of U.S. law schools offer courses on LGBTQ issues or on the intersection of law, sexuality, and identity more generally, very few schools offer courses that focus specifically on the rights and challenges to transgender people. In 1975, Minneapolis became the first city in the United States to pass trans-inclusive civil rights protection legislation. In the nearly half-century since that landmark legislation, transgender rights have moved forward but have also faced a significant backlash both locally and globally. This course examines these two competing trajectories. We will examine global, national, state, and municipal legislation and policies that affect all areas of a transgender person’s life: education, health care, housing, criminal justice, employment, sport, arts, marriage and family, the legal system, and personal safety. Course meets remotely and synchronously. Remote synchronous courses are considered a distance education course and credits earned will count toward distance education courses. Students may take up to 41 credits under the 83-credit requirement (43 under the 86-credit requirement) toward their J.D. degree through courses that are designated "distance education courses."A distance education course is one in which students are separated from all faculty members for more than one-third of the instruction and the instruction involves the use of technology to support regular and substantive interaction between the students and all faculty members, either synchronously or asynchronously. Source: ABA Standards Definition (7) and 306. Pre/CoReq: LAW- 2005
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