Depathologisation of Transgenderism and International Human Rights Law

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6068581
AutoresJens T Theilen (0000-0001-5759-5242, Bucerius Law School, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume14
Fascículo2
Páginas327-342
Data de publicação2014-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHuman Rights Law Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-7781 • E-ISSN: 1744-1021
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/hrlr/ngu010
OpenAlexW2007743562
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

This article approaches the depathologisation of transsexuality and transgenderism from the perspective of international human rights law. Building on the jurisprudence of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, it develops a right to trans depathologisation based in the right to health and the right to non-discrimination and engages with potential objections to such a right – in particular, the argument that depathologisation will adversely affect health-care access of trans persons. Having argued for the existence of a right to depathologisation, the contents of that right are then delineated and its relationship to the World Health Organisation is considered.

Affect (linguistics) · Argument (complex analysis) · Cultural rights · Human rights · International human rights law · Jurisprudence · Law and economics · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Right to health · Sociology · Human Rights and Development · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Medicine