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The Queering of Health Reform

By Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School

October 21, 2009 - 6:00am

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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