Legal and LGBT Crosspost regarding legal rights of transsexuals?
This question is being cross posted for views from both the LGBT community and those that are knowledgeable in Law.
Given a person who has legally changed their identity and gender from female to male but had not yet undergone his breast removal surgery, would he be arrested for walking topless in public?
I as a biological man can do this and we all know that females can't.
Would a Female to Male transsexual be afforded the same right to go around town without a shirt if he still had breasts?
If he were harassed, would he then have a Title VII (civil rights act) suit to pursue?
2008-10-07T19:26:41Z
Alexkms: He may not, but the question supposes on the surface that he would, for whatever reason. It's a question about rights rather than a question about what would actually happen.
2008-10-08T06:57:59Z
Jay: I'm not talking about whether he would do it, i'm merely talking about what would happen if he were to do it.
spidermilk6662008-10-07T19:27:17Z
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I think that the underlying issue is that women aren't allowed to be topless and men are.
I know that they are just making illegal what is not culturally accepted, but it has no logical backing, so they should just give up on it!
I think that the courts would side with the accused man. If he was legally a man, they could not do anything to him for being topless at a beach or something.
Well since no one changes their gender with surgery.... ahh, I'll let it slide this time. You mean sex, not gender. They aren't the same thing.
Where I come from it is not illegal for a woman to be topless in public, nor would it be for a transman I imagine. Unless there's some sort of disgusting clause in there. And I can't imagine any transman who would want to walk around with his chest exposed before surgery... or maybe I'm alone on that one.
Again, I apparently come from a much happier place than you. Those who are trans enjoy each and every right that any other citizen has where I live. Some officers of the law may have prejudices but they aren't policy.
I'm still pre-op, but due to some glitch when I changed my name, social security and the DMV listed "M" on my license and all my other legal documents. So, legally I'm male.
I've been wanting to go topless in the summer anyway...lol.
Nah..I wouldn't really do this, but you DO raise a good point.
Also, yeah..what ABOUT those bio guys with beer bellies, man boobs, and hairy backs and stuff? Who wants to see THAT exposed in public?
Actually it depends on where you live. Here a woman can go topless as the courts ruled that a woman's breast are not a sex organ. This is still not a common occurrence here however.
that's purely yet another argument for why the regulation ought to deal with adult males and females the two. the two make it one hundred% criminal for each physique to stroll around topless, or ban it for adult males besides as women. somewhat frankly, some adult males look terrible with their bushy guts and their guy-boobs mind-blowing out, so present day public "decency" rules at the instant are not something wanting sexist and hypocritical. possibilities are high, you are going to be able to desire to get the ordinances on your city replaced by skill of submitting a lawsuit based on the equivalent protection clause. The undesirable information is that with united statesa.'s puritanical physique of strategies in direction of nudity, it extremely is maximum in all probability that they are going to easily ban all people from going topless. yet once you reside in a liberal adequate section, you are going to be able to desire to get fortunate.