- TransgenderLegal.com (official web site of Phyllis Randolph Frye, a transgender attorney; includes links to legal resources to assist transgenders, crossdressers, transsexuals, and persons who express "any type of actual or perceived gender presentation which is at variance with bipolar, socially assigned, gender presentations or gender identifications")
- Queer Resources Directory - Transgender Issues
- The Transgender Legal Page (Jenny Sand; legal articles and documents for transgendered people)
- Press for Change ("a political lobbying and educational organisation, which campaigns to achieve equal civil rights and liberties for all transgendered people in the United Kingdom, through legislation and social change"; includes links to articles, cases, statutes, regulations, news, treaties, etc., on transsexual rights in the UK and Europe, and includes links to worldwide legal resources; a major site on translegal issues!)
- Transgender Law and Policy Institute (TLPI; "contains an up-to-date listing of all laws in the US that are transgender-inclusive...has quality resources and information on legal issues affecting transgendered and gender variant people in the US; has overview and regular updates on jurisdictions with trans-inclusive non-discrimination laws; intended for activists, policymakers, and academics; was Gender Law and Policy at http://www.genderlaw.org/).
- The New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA is a membership organization that advocates at the state and local level for self-determination in gender expression and identity)
- Dossiers (medical, social, and legal papers for transsexuals provided by the ASB association in France)
- Transsexualism
FAQ: The Transsexual Person in Your Life (responses to some
frequently-asked questions/frequently-held concerns, with links to
resources; written by members of the Mid-Michigan FTM (female-to-male)
Alliance)
- Australia. Parliament. Senate. Legal and Constitutional References Committee, Inquiry into Sexuality Discrimination ([Canberra] : The Committee, 1997). 302p.
- A. Spencer Bergstedt, Transition and Beyond: A Legal Guide for FTM's (Female-to-Male Transsexuals) (Seattle, Wash.: Spencer Bergstedt, Attorney at Law, 1122 E. Pike #1070, Seattle WA 98122, Phone: 206/949-7469, 1997). 103p.
- A. Spencer Bergstedt, Translegalities : A Legal Guide for MTF's (Male-to-Female Transsexuals) ([Seattle, Wash. : Bergstedt], 1997). 98p.
- Paisley Currah & Shannon Minter, Transgender Equality: A Handbook for Activists and Policymakers (New York, NY: National Center for Lesbian Rights and The Policy Institute of the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force, June, 2000)(with an Introduction by Jamison Green). Available in hardcopy and as a PDF file. 104p.
- Paisley Currah & Shannon Minter, "Unprincipled Exclusions: The Struggle to Achieve Judicial and Legislative Equality for Transgender People," William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 7, Issue 1 (2001).
- Sheila Kirk & Martine Rothblatt, Medical, Legal & Workplace Issues for the Transsexual: A Guide for Successful Transformation: Male to Female, Female to Male (Watertown, MA: Together Lifeworks, 1995). 148p.
- A Legal Guide to Child Custody and Selected Family Law Issues for Transsexual and Transgendered Parents (San Francisco : National Center for Lesbian Rights, 1998). 71 leaves.
- Melanie McMullan & Stephen Whittle, Transvestism, Transsexualism and the Law: A Handbook (London: Beaumont Trust; The Gender Trust, 1994). 183p. (2d ed., 1996 has ISBN 0952135744).
- Shannon Minter, Representing Transgendered And Transsexual Clients: An Overview Of Selected Legal Issues (National Center for Lesbian Rights, 1997, 1998).
- Javier Lòpez-Galiacho Perona, La problemática jurídica de la transexualidad (Madrid : McGraw Hill Interamericana de España S.A.U., 1998) (ISBN: 8448111117). 417p.
- Gérard Niveau, Marinette Ummel, & Timothy Harding, "Human Rights Aspects of Transsexualism", 4 Health and Human Rights (no.1, 1999).
- Louis-Edmond Pettiti, Les Transsexuels (Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1992)(Que sais-je? ; 2677) (ISBN: 2130446779). 127p.
- Martine Rothblatt, The Apartheid of Sex - A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender (New York: Crown Publishers, 1995). 178p.
- Denis Salas, Sujet de chair et sujet de droit : la justice face au transsexualisme (Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1994)(Les voies du droit. Signes, 1242-8639)(ISBN: 2130464890). 156p.
- Transgender 101: A Primer for Legal Practitioners with a Transgendered Client (American Bar Association, Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities (IRR), 1998 Annual Meeting, Toronto; sponsored with the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association (NLGLA); copies of papers from this CLE (continuing legal education) program are available at $10/set from the Section office, tel.: 202/662-1030; additional information is available from GenderNews)
- Transgender Discrimination ([Rev. ed], Redfern, N.S.W. : The Anti-Discrimination Board, 1997). 11p.
- Transgender Issues and Sexual Orientation (special theme issue of the National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law, v.3.1 (1997).
- Transsexualism in Europe (Strasbourg: Council of
Europe, 2000). ISBN : 92-871-4343-9. 110p.
"This book contains a consolidated report on transsexualism in Europe, national legislation and international legal instruments concerning transsexuals, as well as the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights on the matter." - Stephen Whittle, Transsexuals and the Law (Thesis (Ph.D.), Manchester Metropolitan University, 1995). 557p.
- Simone Witje, Post-Operative Transsexuals and the European Court of Human Rights, in To Baehr in Our Minds. Essays on Human Rights from the Heart of the Netherlands 501 (Utrecht: SIM, 1998)(SIM Specials; 21).
- Transgender Issues and Sexual Orientation (3 National Journal on Sexual Orientation Law, no.1, October 1997)
- Jumping the Hurdles of Gender - Transsexuals Finally Make Legal Headway (Stephen Whittle, focusing on Europe)
- Is He Our Sister? Sex, Gender, and Transsexuals Under European Law (Andrea C. Loux, 3 Web Journal of Current Legal Issues (June 30, 1997))
- The Legal
Situation for Transsexuals in Europe and Human Rights (Jenny Sand,
May 1994)
A.D.T. v. United
Kingdom (App. No. 35765/97, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR),
July 31, 2000; human rights - discrimination on grounds of sexual
orientation - privacy - criminal restrictions on private sexual activity)
- Salgueiro da Silva Mouta v. Portugal (App. No. 33290/96, European Court of Human Rights, December 21, 1999; human rights - discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation - parental custody rights)
- European Court of Human Rights Cases on Gays in the Military (in the September 27, 1999 judgments of Lustig-Prean and Beckett v. the United Kingdom (Applications nos. 31417/96 and 32377/96) and Smith and Grady v. the United Kingdom (Applications nos. 33985/96 and 33986/96), the European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights; "all four applicants, who were at the relevant time members of the United Kingdom armed forces, are homosexual; the Ministry of Defence apply a policy which excludes homosexuals from the armed forces; the applicants, who were each the subject of an investigation by the service police concerning their homosexuality, all admitted their homosexuality and were administratively discharged on the sole ground of their sexual orientation, in accordance with Ministry of Defence policy; the Court considered that the investigations conducted into the applicants' sexual orientation together with their discharge from the armed forces constituted especially grave interferences with their private lives; see Statement on Homosexuality and the Armed Forces (UK Ministry of Defence - UK government changes "gays in the military" policy))
- P. v. S. and Cornwall County Council (Case C-13/94, [1996] ECR I-2143; the Court held that discrimination in the area of employment of a person because of a gender reassignment is discrimination on grounds of sex within the meaning of the European Community directive on equal treatment of men and women in the area of work)
- Case of Sheffield and Horsham v. the United Kingdom (No. 31-32/19097/815- 816/1018-1019, July 30, 1998; The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found that States have no positive obligation under the European Convention on Human Rights to recognize for legal purposes the new sexual identities of post-operative transsexuals; articles 8 and 12 of the Convention)