Unprincipled Exclusions: The Struggle to Achieve Judicial and Legislative Equality for Transgender People

This Article examines recent efforts to enact civil rights statutes for transgender people in the United States. Part I provides an overview of the largely negative case law on the issue of whether transgender people are protected under existing sex, sexual orientation or disability discrimination laws. This context is provided, in part, to explain why transgender rights advocates have turned to the legislative branches of government to secure basic civil rights protections. Part II describes the initial successes that have been achieved as a result of this new focus on political activism and legislation. Part III examines the actual statutory language that has been used to protect transgender people, as well as some of the key strategic questions that have arisen in the course of drafting such legislation

Oidiodendron: A survey of the named species and related anamorphs of Myxotrichum

AbstractSynoptic and dichotomous keys to 23 species of Oidiodendron and similar arthroconidial anamorphs of Myxotrichum were developed using morphological and physiological characters. Illustrations and brief descriptions based on living isolates and published descriptions are provided for all species treated. Included are the unnamed Oidiodendron states of Myxotrichum arcticum, M. cancellatum, M. emodense, M. setosum, and M. striatosporum, as well as the anamorphic species O. ambiguum, O. cerealis, O. chlamydosporicum (inclusive of O. scytaloides as a synonym), O. echinulatum, O. fimicola, O. flavum, O. fuscum, O. griseum, O. hughesii (inclusive of O. reticulatum as a synonym), O. maius (inclusive of O. maius var. citrinum and O. maius var. maius), O. muniellense, O. myxotrichoides, O. periconioides, O. pilicola, O. rhodogenum, O. setiferum (inclusive of O. ramosum as a synonym), O. tenuissimum, and O. truncatum. Oidiodendron fuscum, the original type species, is recognized as distinct. Oidiodendron robustum is excluded because of its large conidia and conidiophores and because the original drawings do not convincingly portray arthroconidia. Oidiodendron terrestre is excluded because its large, two-celled conidia, rapid growth, and hyaline conidiophores are inconsistent with the generic diagnosis and because the mode of its conidiogenesis is unclear from the original descriptions and illustrations.Taxonomic novelties: Oidiodendron maius var. citrinum (Barron) Rice & Currah stat. nov

From the Executive Director

CLAGS joins other LBGT groups in condemning the sexual humiliation and other forms of torture inflicted on Iraqi detainees by US military forces. As the AI-Fatiha Foundation for LGBTIQ Muslims noted in a press release last month, forcing men to masturbate in front of each other and to mock same-sex acts or homosexual sex is perverse and sadistic, in the eyes of many Muslims

Letter from Paisley Currah, Outgoing Executive Director

Unzipping the Monster Dick. I thought nothing of this title when planning the fall 2003 CLAGS and a speaker, Santiago Solis, suggested it. It seemed to me, a denizen of the world of queer studies, unremarkable, even normal as I jotted it down. Solis, who was finishing his PhD in Learning Dis/abilities at Teachers College, Columbia University at the time, had the requisite explanatory subtitle: Deconstructing Ableist Penile Representations in two Ethnic Homoerotic Magazines

Seminars in the City Update

Each semester, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies hosts a Seminar in the City, a series of monthly discussion meetings where nonacademic readers read major works in lesbian/gay/ bisexual/transgender and queer studies. This fall, Seminars in the City focused on the theme of transgender politics, reading texts by Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg, and Riki Anne Wilchins

Letter from the Executive Director: Queer Studies Goes Digital

Google books, journals available only online, Wikipedia. With so much knowledge going digital, is print culture on its way our? While print probably won\u27t disappear as a scholarly medium in the foreseeable future, it is important that CLAGS remain at the cutting edge not just in terms of the kinds of research we support, but in terms of how we disseminate that research. We are currently involved in several long-term projects to share digital resources with our membership and the community at large, expanding on our longstanding commitment to making print and analog materials available that are often not accessible anywhere else

Capital Campaign to Mark CLAGS\u27s 15th Anniversary

It may seem hard to believe, but when the new year rolled in, CLAGS turned 15. In 1991, CLAGS opened as the first university-based research center for what was then called lesbian and gay studies in the US. It\u27s been a heady, infectiously exciting, and sometimes contentious 15 years

From the Executive Director

We find ourselves in difficult times: last November, referenda against same-sex marriage passed in 11 states; the war in Iraq continues, unabated; oxymoronic legislators in DC are strategizing to privatize social security; the Democratic Party is reevaluating its support of reproductive rights; the national security state is making it possible for states to verify their inhabitants\u27 records against those of the feds, resulting in many undocumented workers and some trans people losing their drivers licenses; PBS has decided not to distribute a children\u27s show in which a cartoon rabbit talks to the real children of lesbian moms, and even SpongeBob SquarePants finds himself under attack by the religious right