[News/People] [USA] Yale University Law Review: An Interview with Jessica Stern

[Stephanie Stevens]

International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), NY, USA


Yale University Law Review: An Interview with Jessica Stern

05/07/2012

Igor Mitschka


Read Igor Mitschka's interview with Jessica Stern
<http://www.iglhrc.org/binary-data/ATTACHMENT/file/000/000/570-1.pdf>
(PDF)

[An excerpt: "3. As part of your work on LGBT rights, you have done
intensive research on countries like Iran, Kyrgyzstan, and the United
Arab Emirates. What were your findings? Hostility, homophobia, and
transphobia manifest themselves differently depending upon where you
are. For instance, the notion that it is safer for LGBT people in the
U.S. is not necessarily true and is a very common misconception. I
think the example of Iran is quite interesting. In Iran, while
homosexual activity is policed in the strictest of ways, there is
official state recognition for transgender people, and Iran allegedly
has one of the highest rates of sex reassignment surgery in the world.
On the other hand, in the U.S., the high costs of sex reassignment
surgery and the lack of available hormones mean that many transgender
Americans struggle. Fulfilling LGBT human rights tends to be complex
anywhere you work."]


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