Non-binary Gender Concepts and the Evolving Legal Treatment of UK Transsexed Individuals: A Practical Consideration of the Possibilities of Butler

This essay seeks to bridge the gap between the UK legal system’s treatment of transsexuals and post-structuralist gender theory. It argues that whilst the greater representation of transsexuals in UK legal discourse embodied in the Gender Recognition Act is a positive move forward in terms of classic liberal notions of human rights and in its acceptance of transsexuals as proper subjects before the law, it nonetheless represents an essentialist conception of transsexuals; requiring them to ‘fit’ within binary categories of male and female. It is argued that post-structuralist thought regarding gender can illuminate some of the problems inherent within the UK legal system’s treatment of transsexuals and particularly focuses on the work of Judith Butler. There is further detailed consideration of the UK legal system’s treatment of transsexuals prior to the Gender Recognition Act and a response to some of the criticisms levelled at the applicability of Butlerian thought to real-world scenarios

THE EFFICACY OF VIDEO-BASED MARKER-LESS TRACKING SYSTEM IN GAIT ANALYSIS

An alternative to the 3D motion capture is the marker-less 3D video tracking system. Though not rigorously tested yet, the 3D marker less video tracker would break new grounds if it is possible of extracting similar kinematic parameters as the gold standard 3D marker based motion capturers. The aim of our study is to explore the feasibility of a video based marker-less system which is as accurate and precise as its marker based counterpart. A series of gait analysis tests were carried out on ten subjects with a marker and marker-less system simultaneously. The study suggests potential applications in gait analysis in the academic classrooms and clinical settings where observations of anatomical motions provide meaningful feedback

VIDEO-BASED MARKER-LESS TRACKING SYSTEM IN GAIT ANALYSIS

An alternative to the 30 motion marker-based optical camera capture is the Star Tracker 3D, a marker-less video-based tracking system. The aim of our study is to investigate the efficacy of the Star Tracker 3D. A series of gait analysis tests were carried out on ten subjects with a marker and marker-less tracking system simultaneously. The study suggests potential application in gait analysis in the academic classrooms and clinical settings where observations of anatomical motions can provide meaningful feedback