Sexual Intimacy and Gender Identity 'Fraud': Reframing the Legal and Ethical Debate

Author: Alex Sharpe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138502550
Published In: March 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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 overeach 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 legal interpretation of each and how this serves to preclude more marginal perspectives.

Beyond law, the book takes up the challenge of ethical characterisation of 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.

PART I: PRELIMINARIES

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Setting the Scene

PART II: PRINCIPLES

Chapter 3: Principled Objections I

Chapter 4: Principled Objections II

PART III: PRACTICES

Chapter 5: From Principle to Practice

Chapter 6: From Legal to Ethical Practice

Chapter 7: Queering Legal Practice: Re-Writing McNally

Chapter 8: Conclusions