""Beyond Recognition: Transgender Antidiscrimination Law, Rhetoric, and Ethical Responsibility" by Laura Jane Collins challenges the notion that transgender antidiscrimination law is a simple question of inclusion versus exclusion. Collins uses the tools of rhetorical analysis to understand what the law is called to do, what it actually does, and what its limitations are. In doing so, this manuscript demonstrates how law is relied upon to offer definitive sex categorizations that we seem to lack and want so very much to depend on. While the categorization of sex may seem like a modern issue, the law has long been troubled by the complexity of sex as an identity marker, and the laws own limited capacity to resolve the problem of sex allows for a festering of deep seeded anxiety among legislators, litigants, citizens, and critics alike. By relying too heavily on the law to provide certainty in defining sex, Collins argues that we insulate ourselves from individual responsibility. That is, if law is always the focus-either the problem or the solution-this shifts attention away from our own power and responsibility to make "sex" more livable for everyone. Collins analyzes various "manifestations" of contemporary transgender antidiscrimination law to consider the extent to which law does little more than recognize individual perpetrators of discrimination and the victims of that discrimination. These manifestations include the decades-long history of transgender plaintiffs attempts to bring employment discrimination suits under federal Title VII sex discrimination law, the state of Californias attempts to amend its Fair Housing and Employment Act to better protect transgender people, and the North Carolina legislatures debate over the so-called "bathroom bill.

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