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Author Q&A for : 'Sexual Intimacy and Gender Identity 'Fraud' : Reframing the Legal and Ethical Debate'
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Sharpe, A. (2018) Author Q&A for : 'Sexual Intimacy and Gender Identity 'Fraud' : Reframing the Legal and Ethical Debate'. [Online]. (https://www.routledge.com/posts/13130). London: Routledge.
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Abstract
In 2012, 17 year old Gemma Barker was convicted of sexual offences on the basis that she failed to disclose her gender identity to female complainants prior to sexual intimacies. She was sentenced to two and a half years in prison and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life. This was the second case of its kind in the UK. The first was prosecuted over 20 years earlier (R v Jennifer Saunders [1991] unrep). However, unlike the Saunders case, Barker proved to be the beginning of a disturbing pattern of successful prosecutions. In 2013, convictions were sustained against Chris Wilson in Edinburgh and Justine McNally in London. In 2015, Gayle Newland and Kyran Lee were convicted in Chester and Lincoln respectively, and in 2016, Jason Staines was convicted in Bristol. Most recently, in 2017, Gayle Newland was reconvicted in Manchester after the Court of Appeal found her original conviction unsafe and ordered a retrial.
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
Place of Publication: | London | ||||
Official Date: | 2018 | ||||
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Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Media of Output (format): | Blog | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Description: | Coinciding with the publication of her latest book, Sexual Intimacy and Gender Identity 'Fraud': Reframing the Legal and Ethical Debate, our Q&A; with Routledge author Alex Sharpe explores sexual offence prosecutions brought against young, gender non-conforming people for so-called 'gender identity fraud' |
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