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Joann PrinzivalliWelcome to the Joann Prinzivalli website's Law Page. This page is intended to provide information and links that deal with CD/TG/TS legal issues.

  • NEW! The original draft of the proposed Westchester County, New York, Human Rights LawThere is a lot of controversy about this proposal because it is GLBT (and yes, I mean T!) inclusive. The fact is, the bigoted people who trashed the proposal in the public hearings actually bear witness to the absolute necessity for the legal protection!

  • The leading case on transgender employment rights in New York State, is Maffei v. Kolaeton Industry, Inc.

  • Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle LLP, August-September 1998: EEO - Gender Mistakes Still Lead To Unlawful Harassment

  • Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle LLP, MAY 1997: EEO - Transsexuals In New York State

  • Transgender Employment Rights is a page of links that contain information about transitioning on the job and other issues transsexual and transgendered workers and their employers may face. Some present the transsexual worker's point of view, others offer advice from professionals.

  • Kristine W. Holt, Reevaluating Holloway: Title VII, Equal Protection, and the Evolution of a Transgender Jurisprudence, 70 Temp. L.Rev. 283 (June 1997). An analysis of Title VII and it applications for transgendered people. Drawing from Price Waterhouse, the theory is put forth that transgender discrimination is a form of "sex-stereotyping," and is forbidden by Title VII; courts that refuse to grant Title VII causes of action to transgendered people deny them Equal Protection rights.

  • Kristine W. Holt, The Heart has reasons that Reason does not know: The Conundrum of Same-Sex Transgender Marriage, (May 1998) Winner of the 1998 Smith and Leibel Family Law Award. Explores the use of transgender marriages as a means of legalizing same-sex marriages, and analyzes the devastating effect such a legal tactic could have on the transgender community as a whole. Revised by the author; link updated July 1999

    Kristine Holt, Esq. is an attorney admitted in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Her website contains more information particularly of interest to persons who live in those states.

  • Transsexuals Test Limits of N.J. Law Against Discrimination, by Ronald J. Fleury , New Jersey Law Journal, March 18, 1996

    NYAGRA: The New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy

    Gender Advocacy Alliance In New Jersey

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