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The Right to Personal Autonomy Regarding Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation
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Hardcover
August 2022 | ISBN 9789462362970 | 1st edition | 348 pages
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The Right to Personal Autonomy Regarding Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation

The Case of Belgium

Pieter Cannoot | Eleven
The Right to Personal Autonomy Regarding Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation
The Right to Personal Autonomy Regarding Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation
The Right to Personal Autonomy Regarding Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation
The Right to Personal Autonomy Regarding Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation
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August 2022 | ISBN 9789462362970 | 1st edition | 348 pages
€ 100,00
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In recent years, the fundamental rights of LGBTIQ+ persons have received increased legal attention at the international and national level. Considerable legal progress has been made in a short period of time, even though at the same time a divergent trend is occurring in several countries around the world.
The Right to Personal Autonomy Regarding Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation investigates whether a legal framework based on (the recognition of a right to) personal autonomy regarding sex (characteristics), gender (identity/expression) and sexual orientation could still enhance the legal status of LGBTIQ+ persons. To this end, it makes use of the Belgian legal order as an illustration of a Western national legal system that is responsive to human rights claims of sexual minorities, but remains anchored in heteronormative stereotypes.
The author not only addresses the question to what extent the present legal framework recognises, protects and fulfils the rights of sexual minorities, but also how potential gaps in legal protection could be tackled. Specific attention is given to the role and value of the constitutional entrenchment of a right to personal autonomy over one’s sexual identity in advancing the inclusion of LGBTIQ+ persons in law.

‘This book offers a significant contribution to the current debate about LGBTIQ+ rights. It explores the legal status of LGBTIQ+ people, and points out remaining gaps and ambivalences. Perhaps the most valuable argument this book puts forward is its analysis that LGBTIQ+ rights are important not only to a minority but to society as a whole.’
From the foreword by Petra De Sutter, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister

Interview

For the International Day against Homo-, Trans- and Biphobia on 17 May, we interviewed the author, professor Pieter Cannoot (Ghent University, Belgium) about his research.

'Some stereotypes affect some groups more'


The full interview can be read through this link.

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Pieter Cannoot
Dr. Pieter Cannoot is an assistant professor of law and diversity at Ghent University (Belgium). He was previously a law clerk at the Belgian Constitutional Court and a visiting professor at the Un... More

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