Sex-Discrimination Law and Equivalent Rights

I want to suggest that we should understand the wrong in sex discrimination as the imposing of a law of gender identity on lived possibilities—whether those oppressed are women who seek to be truck drivers or prison guards or homosexual men who want to be fathers or to have access to desperately needed medical treatment such as AZT. Under current sex-discrimination law, as conventionally interpreted,’ the wrong of discrimination is that a universal standard is imposed on an individual...