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Sex, Gender & Identity
Trans Rights in Australia
Series: In the National Interest
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These days, barely a week goes by without pointed media stories about the trans community, usually targeting trans women. They are likely to have a sensationalist headline and a salacious tone, and the writing is often ill-informed and vilifying. Favoured topics include women in sports, bathrooms,...
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These days, barely a week goes by without pointed media stories about the trans community, usually targeting trans women. They are likely to have a sensationalist headline and a salacious tone, and the writing is often ill-informed and vilifying. Favoured topics include women in sports, bathrooms, where prisoners are housed, and health care for tra
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These days, barely a week goes by without pointed media stories about the trans community, usually targeting trans women. They are likely to have a sensationalist headline and a salacious tone, and the writing is often ill-informed and vilifying. Favoured topics include women in sports, bathrooms, where prisoners are housed, and health care for trans and gender-diverse children and young people.
What tends not to be reported is the abuse, assaults, and online hate that have become a daily experience for trans women, and the bullying that trans kids experience at school. Some of this is due to the ripple effects of the animosity spewed out by the so-called ‘leader of the free world’. From the early days of his campaign for a second term as US president, Donald Trump has had the trans community in his sights, and he now appears intent on denying their very existence. But a broader dynamic seems to be a deep-seated intolerance, if not loathing, of trans people in our society.
Why are trans people so hated? Why have they become contemporary 'villains' and the target of so much prejudice and bigotry? And most importantly, how do we change this? Is it possible to move from blaming, shaming and excluding trans people to respecting, protecting and including them? These questions are at the heart of Sex, Gender & Identity, alongside the goal of increasing community-wide understanding of this much-maligned minority.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781923192690
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 September 2025
Country: Australia
Imprint: Monash University Publishing
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 111.0mm
Height: 175.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 96
About the Author
Paula Gerber combines a sharp legal intellect with passionate advocacy to fight for the dismantling of discriminatory systems around the globe. She is a law professor at Monash University, and an internationally renowned expert on human rights law and LGBTQIA+ people. Paula has written and edited numerous books and articles on human rights issues, and she is regularly featured in the Australian media, including on ABC television and radio, and on The Conversation. She has also developed the website https://antigaylaws.org, basically the Google Maps of global LGBTQIA+ legal landscapes. Paula is the Chair of Kaleidoscope Human Rights Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that advocates for better protection of the rights of LGBTQIA+ people in the Asia-Pacific region, where many countries continue to persecute trans and gender-diverse people and criminalise same-sex sexual conduct.
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