Entre présent et possible : la difficile recomposition du paysage de la banlieue dans le film de Mathieu Kassovitz, La Haine

Depuis ses débuts, l'oeuvre filmique est saisie par la ville. Que se passe-t-il au cinéma quand, dans le réel, le paysage urbain se désagrège, notamment dans le cas des banlieues? Pour comprendre cette nouvelle « manière d'être à l'espace », nous examinerons d'abord quelques aspects des cheminements des corps dans le film La Haine, de Mathieu Kassovitz. Il faut commencer à réenvisager les nouveaux paysages urbains au plus près de leurs fréquentations ordinaires, quotidiennes, là où sautent les maillons. Ces déambulations sont aussi à la recherche de nouvelles connexions avec le paysage. En insérant la rupture dans la manière d'occuper l'espace, le film, implicitement, suggère d'autres liaisons imaginaires. Ainsi, porté par le paysage sonore, le film engendre parfois de brefs échanges entre le geste et la cité.Film, from its very beginnings, has been drawn to the city. What happens to the cinema when real urban landscapes disintegrate into suburbs? As a way of understanding this new way of "being in space," the author first discusses different aspects of the body's trajectories in Mathieu Kassovitz's film La Haine. We must find a new way of looking at new urban landscapes, in keeping with their habitual and day-to-day use, in the space where the links of the chain are broken. These suburban trajectories are also searching for new connections with the landscape. The film implicitly suggests new, imaginary liaisons in the way it introduces rupture into the manner of occupying space. In this way, carried along by the aural landscape, the film at times gives rise to brief exchanges between the gesture and the city

Modernizing State Vital Statistics Statutes and Policies to Ensure Accurate Gender Markers on Birth Certificates: A Good Government Approach to Recognizing the Lives of Transgender People

Across the country, laws governing corrections to gender markers on birth certificates are relatively uniform, in large part because many states adopted the relevant provisions of the 1977 revision of the Model State Vital Statistics Act (MSVSA). The MSVSA, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, guides states on the most efficient laws and procedures related to maintaining accurate birth, death, and other vital records at the state, local, and territorial level. At the time when the government promulgated the MSVSA provision related to gender corrections, it served as a forward-thinking model because it acknowledged that vital records should be corrected in the case of individuals who change their gender. Specifically, the 1977 MSVSA recommended that corrections to gender markers on birth certificates be granted after applicants change their sex by surgical procedure and provide a court order to that effect. Additionally, the MSVSA recommended that the correction be kept private. Over the past three decades, transgender legal rights have advanced and understanding of transgender medicine has evolved. Experts in transgender law and medicine entirely reject the idea that recognition of a person\u27s gender should come only after surgery. This notion has also been significantly eroded in law and policy. Yet, with the exception of new laws and/or policies in three states, birth certificate statutes and policies have yet to be modernized in this respect. This Article explains why and how state, local, and territorial birth certificate laws and regulations ought to be revised based on changes in law and medicine. In addition, the Article discusses public policy factors that governments should consider when modernizing their policies, including the cost of various policies and the policies\u27 legal and practical effects on the lives of transgender people

Modernizing State Vital Statistics Statutes and Policies to Ensure Accurate Gender Markers on Birth Certificates: A Good Government Approach to Recognizing the Lives of Transgender People

Across the country, laws governing corrections to gender markers on birth certificates are relatively uniform, in large part because many states adopted the relevant provisions of the 1977 revision of the Model State Vital Statistics Act (MSVSA). The MSVSA, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, guides states on the most efficient laws and procedures related to maintaining accurate birth, death, and other vital records at the state, local, and territorial level. At the time when the government promulgated the MSVSA provision related to gender corrections, it served as a forward-thinking model because it acknowledged that vital records should be corrected in the case of individuals who change their gender. Specifically, the 1977 MSVSA recommended that corrections to gender markers on birth certificates be granted after applicants change their sex by surgical procedure and provide a court order to that effect. Additionally, the MSVSA recommended that the correction be kept private. Over the past three decades, transgender legal rights have advanced and understanding of transgender medicine has evolved. Experts in transgender law and medicine entirely reject the idea that recognition of a person\u27s gender should come only after surgery. This notion has also been significantly eroded in law and policy. Yet, with the exception of new laws and/or policies in three states, birth certificate statutes and policies have yet to be modernized in this respect. This Article explains why and how state, local, and territorial birth certificate laws and regulations ought to be revised based on changes in law and medicine. In addition, the Article discusses public policy factors that governments should consider when modernizing their policies, including the cost of various policies and the policies\u27 legal and practical effects on the lives of transgender people