Re Kevin : gender dysphoria and the right to marry
journal contribution
posted on 2002-01-01, 00:00authored byJ 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