This panel will focus on the unique issues faced in the practice of LGBT immigration law. Issues will include “green card marriages;” an attorney’s duties to disclose negative information in an immigration application such as a client’s HIV status or transgender identity when it’s relevant to the applicant’s eligibility for a benefit; unique ethics issue which arise in asylum cases; and possible responses if the individual has nothing to lose with a particular argument but the argument might hurt the larger LGBT rights cause. The panel will include a private practitioner, a clinical professor, and a public interest attorney.
Speakers: Victoria Neilson, William Schiller
Ethics
Intersex Infants and Elective Genitoplasty: Issues of Consent
This panel discussion will explore legal and ethical issues of consent surrounding genital-normalizing surgeries on children born with intersex conditions. Panelists will give an update on current medical practices and examine how these practices fit within existing legal frameworks for parental decision-making, informed consent, sexual autonomy, genital cutting and sterilization. We will touch on international legal responses and recent cases in which doctors have been sanctioned for failing to adequately protect the rights of intersex patients.
Speakers: Anne Tamar-Mattis, Julie Greenberg, Hazel Glenn Beh, Nancy Ehrenreich, Suegee Tamar-Mattis