Katherine Franke's blog
Running Like A Girl: Sex-Stereotyping in the Olympics
by Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School
February 4, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)
Male athletes--think Armstrong, Phelps, jockeys--have "physical traits" considered responsible for superior performance, while elite female athletes are increasingly being tested and "treated" for "Disorders of Sexual Development."
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The Queering of Health Reform
by Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School
October 21, 2009 - 6:00am (Print)
Just as it is wrong to make better health care available only to those who can afford it, so too, it is wrong to make coverage contingent on a life that looks like the Brady Bunch. Good health care should not depend on wealth or hetero-patriarchy.
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"Gender Verification in Sports:" We All Have a Stake in Caster Semenya's Medal
by Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School
September 14, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)
When South African athlete Caster Semenya won the 800 meter track competition last month in Berlin, some observers questioned Semenya’s “real” sex and she was forced to undergo testing.
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Queer-Baiting: A Homophobic Strategy Whose Day Never Came
by Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School
May 12, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)
In the intervening almost 20 years since David Souter was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Bush the First, much has changed. Let's hope that the issue of the nominee's personal life is one of them.
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Good News On U.S. Anti-Trafficking Policy
by Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School
April 2, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)
The White House's appointment of Luis de Baca to be the head of the Trafficking In Persons office suggests that it appreciates the importance of a harm reduction approach to the problem of trafficking.
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Exemptions from Military Service: Mothers in the Military and Fathers at Home?
by Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School
March 19, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)
Should the Army have exempted a mother from active-duty service because she has two young children, when her husband could have cared for them?
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"Homeland" Security Under Napolitano, Key Player in Fight Against Trafficking
by Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School
February 18, 2009 - 12:40pm (Print)
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and her team are important players in setting a new agenda for fighting human trafficking. But we have reason to be concerned about how they'll do it.
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