Flora Renz is Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Sexuality, Race and Gender Justice at Kent Law School, UK.

"Renz’s book is an important contribution in this moment for bringing us back to the legislation and how it practically impacts the people whom it was designed to help. Forme, this is first and foremostwhy this book is important. Nonetheless, it also makes important theoretical contributions, perhaps most persuasively in relation to legal consciousness but also to agency and emotion. Any scholarship engaging with these ideas will also find in Renz’s book an important and stimulating contribution." Chris Ashford, Northumbria Law School, Northumbria University, UK.

• 1. Proving “Commitment”: GRC Applications and the Performance of Normative Gender Identities 2. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 – Between Governance and Agency 3. Being “Well Prepared” or “Being Put on a Register”: Diverse Engagements with the Gender Recognition Act 4. From Heroism to Empathy: Emotional Engagements with Gender Regulation 5. Questioning the Legitimacy of Legal Gender Regulation

Flora Renz is Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Sexuality, Race and Gender Justice at Kent Law School, UK.

"Renz’s book is an important contribution in this moment for bringing us back to the legislation and how it practically impacts the people whom it was designed to help. Forme, this is first and foremostwhy this book is important. Nonetheless, it also makes important theoretical contributions, perhaps most persuasively in relation to legal consciousness but also to agency and emotion. Any scholarship engaging with these ideas will also find in Renz’s book an important and stimulating contribution." Chris Ashford, Northumbria Law School, Northumbria University, UK.

• 1. Proving “Commitment”: GRC Applications and the Performance of Normative Gender Identities 2. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 – Between Governance and Agency 3. Being “Well Prepared” or “Being Put on a Register”: Diverse Engagements with the Gender Recognition Act 4. From Heroism to Empathy: Emotional Engagements with Gender Regulation 5. Questioning the Legitimacy of Legal Gender Regulation

Flora Renz is Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Sexuality, Race and Gender Justice at Kent Law School, UK.

"Renz’s book is an important contribution in this moment for bringing us back to the legislation and how it practically impacts the people whom it was designed to help. Forme, this is first and foremostwhy this book is important. Nonetheless, it also makes important theoretical contributions, perhaps most persuasively in relation to legal consciousness but also to agency and emotion. Any scholarship engaging with these ideas will also find in Renz’s book an important and stimulating contribution." Chris Ashford, Northumbria Law School, Northumbria University, UK.

• 1. Proving “Commitment”: GRC Applications and the Performance of Normative Gender Identities 2. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 – Between Governance and Agency 3. Being “Well Prepared” or “Being Put on a Register”: Diverse Engagements with the Gender Recognition Act 4. From Heroism to Empathy: Emotional Engagements with Gender Regulation 5. Questioning the Legitimacy of Legal Gender Regulation