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Re Kevin : gender dysphoria and the right to marry

journal contribution
posted on 2002-01-01, 00:00 authored by J McConvill, Eithne Mary Mills
What does it comfort any of us to insist that an individual shall be a man, when for the purposes of ordinary life that individual can only be, and be recognised, as a woman? What pride can there be for a law which vetoes the attitudes dictated by ordinary humanity?[1]

Those suffering from gender dysphoria have been described in the following simple language:

People with gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder live with a conviction that their physical anatomy is incompatible with their true gender role. They have an overwhelming desire to live and function in the opposite biological sex.

History

Journal

University of Western Sydney Law Review

Volume

6

Pagination

223 - 240

Publisher

University of Western Sydney

Location

Sydney, N.S.W.

ISSN

1446-9294

eISSN

1327-1644

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal article

Copyright notice

2002

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