"'At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State.'” --Carmen Consuelo Cerezo, U.S. District Judge, April 20, 2018, quoting the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling in favor of the right of transgender people to have accurate birth certificates in Puerto Rico. I'm so pleased that my vision of a right of gender autonomy, the right of transgender people to define their gender free from state interference, first set forth in my 2001 law review in Tulane's Journal of Law & Sexuality (and cited in the briefs), has come to fruition in this case through the efforts of Lambda Legal, which has long championed the rights of trans people. https://ift.tt/2K9SRcO
