Core Rights and Duties

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-56
Author(s):  
Anna Beale
Keyword(s):  
Disability Discrimination ◽  
Gender Reassignment

This chapter explains the principal concepts of discrimination defined in Part 2 of the Equality Act 2010. In general, discrimination is defined in the same way for each of the protected characteristics. There are important exceptions to this rule, in recognition of the particular needs of certain groups protected by the Act. For example, the distinctive nature of disability discrimination is recognized through the concepts of discrimination arising from disability and the duty to make reasonable adjustments. These are specific forms of discrimination which apply only to disability. Special provisions deal with absences from work because of gender reassignment and specific measures are set out to deal with pregnancy and maternity discrimination.

Psychological Considerations of Gender Reassignment Surgery

1982 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milton T. Edgerton ◽  
Margaretha Willemina Langman ◽  
Joyce S. Schmidt ◽  
William Sheppe
Keyword(s):  
Gender Reassignment Surgery ◽  
Gender Reassignment

Morphological Freedom and Medicine: Constructing the Posthuman Body

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luna Dolezal
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
The Body ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Gender Reassignment ◽  
Common Parlance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Body Practices ◽  
Health Function ◽  
At Will

The notion that the body can be changed at will in order to meet the desires and designs of its ‘owner’ is one that has captured the popular imagination and underpins contemporary medical practices such as cosmetic surgery and gender reassignment. In fact, describing the body as ‘malleable’ or ‘plastic’ has entered common parlance and dictates common-sense ideas of how we understand the human body in late-capitalist consumer societies in the wake of commercial biotechnologies that work to modify the body aesthetically and otherwise. If we are not satisfied with some aspect of our physicality – in terms of health, function or aesthetics – we can engage with a whole variety of self-care body practices – fashion, diet, exercise, cosmetics, medicine, surgery, laser – in order to ‘correct’, reshape or restyle the body. In addition, as technology has advanced and elective cosmetic surgery has unapologetically entered the mainstream, the notion of the malleable body has become intrinsically linked to the practices and discourses of biomedicine and, furthermore, has become a significant means to assert and affirm identity.

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