Sexual intimacy and gender identity 'fraud' : reframing the legal and ethical debate / Alex Sharpe.
2018
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Title
Sexual intimacy and gender identity 'fraud' : reframing the legal and ethical debate / Alex Sharpe.
Published
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Call Number
KD7975 .S53 2018
ISBN
9781138502550 hardcover
1138502553 hardcover
9781315144955 (e-book)
1138502553 hardcover
9781315144955 (e-book)
Description
xix, 204 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1000297837
Summary
"This book is a legal and political intervention into a contemporary debate concerning the appropriateness of sexual offence prosecutions brought against young gender non-conforming people for so-called 'gender identity fraud'. It comes down squarely against prosecution. To that end, it offers a series of principled objections based both on liberal principles, and arguments derived from queer and feminist theories. Thus prosecution will be challenged as criminal law overreach and as a spectacular example of legal inconsistency, but also as indicative of a failure to grasp the complexity of sexual desire and its disavowal. In particular, the book will think through the concepts of consent, harm and deception and their legal application to these specific forms of intimacy. In doing so, it will reveal how cisnormativity frames the legal interpretation of each and how this serves to preclude more marginal perspectives. Beyond law, the book takes up the ethical challenge of the non-disclosure of gender history. Rather than dwelling on this omission, it argues that we ought to focus on a cisgender demand to know as the proper object of ethical inquiry. Finally, and as an act of legal and ethical re-imagination, the book offers a queer counter-judgment to R v McNally, the only case involving a gender non-conforming defendant, so far, to have come before the Court of Appeal."-- Back cover.
Note
"A Glasshouse book"--Front cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Table of cases
xv
Table of legislation
xviii
Part I: Preliminaries
1
1.
Introduction
3
1.1.
Queering Law
6
1.2.
Themes
8
i.
Ideology
8
ii.
Agency
10
iii.
Ignorance/Knowledge
11
iv.
Act/Identity
12
v.
Resistance
15
vi.
Law's Bodily Aesthetics
18
vii.
Act/Omission
18
viii.
Consent
20
ix.
Harm
21
x.
Deception
22
1.3.
Chapter Outlines
23
2.
Setting the scene
30
2.1.
Introduction
30
2.2.
brief history of sexual fraud
31
2.3.
modern law of sexual fraud
33
2.4.
general consent provision
35
2.5.
Mens rea and sexual fraud
40
2.6.
Gender identity fraud
41
i.
R v Jennifer Saunders
42
ii.
R v Gemma Barker
44
iii.
R v Justine McNally
45
iv.
R v Chris Wilson
46
v.
R v Gayle Newland
47
vi.
R v Kyran Lee (Mason)
49
vii.
R v Jason Staines
50
2.7.
socio-political context
51
2.8.
Conclusion
54
Part II: Principles
57
3.
Principled objections I
59
3.1.
Introduction
59
3.2.
Criminal law overreach
60
3.3.
limits of sexual autonomy
62
3.4.
Legal inconsistency and discrimination
68
3.5.
Conflicting rights claims
74
i.
right to privacy
75
ii.
Privacy and proportionality
78
iii.
Privacy and legal certainty
80
iv.
Beyond privacy: a right to corporeal integrity
82
3.6.
Conclusion
83
4.
Principled objections II
85
4.1.
Introduction
85
4.2.
Calculating harm
86
4.3.
Deception: epistemology, ontology and power
89
i.
No deception as to gender identity
90
ii.
No deception as to a material fact
93
iii.
No deception at the time of legal liability
94
iv.
No motivation to deceive
96
4.4.
Act-omission: a flawed distinction
94
Hypothetical scenarios (A-D)
99
4.5.
public policy objection
103
4.6.
Conclusion
105
Part III: Practices
107
5.
From principle to practice
109
5.1.
Introduction
109
5.2.
decision to prosecute
110
i.
Interpreting prosecution guidelines
111
ii.
Ignorance and/as knowledge
116
5.3.
Pleading guilty
118
5.4.
Act/Omission revisited: the problem of analytical collapse
121
i.
Determining gender
123
ii.
Finding active deception
125
5.5.
Conclusion
130
6.
From legal to ethical practice
132
6.1.
Introduction
132
6.2.
Gender, truth and power
134
6.3.
Engaging with normative ethics
139
i.
moral obligation to disclose information
141
ii.
Justifications
143
6.4.
To be (come) ethically gendered: beyond cisnormativity
147
6.5.
Conclusion
148
7.
Queering legal practice: re-writing McNally
151
7.1.
Introduction
151
7.2.
value of counter judgment writing
152
7.3.
queer approach
156
7.4.
dissenting judgment: R v McNally
160
Introduction
161
facts of the case
161
Grounds of appeal
164
substantive legal issues
165
Non-consent
166
Active deception
171
Conclusions
174
8.
Conclusions
175
Postscript
182
References
183
Index
199