Scott Skinner-Thompson
Professor - Dean's Scholar - Affiliate Faculty, LGBTQ Studies Program
Full Faculty Bio: https://www.colorado.edu/law/scott-skinner-thompson-0
Published Books
| Privacy at the Margins, (Cambridge University Press, 2021). |
| AIDS and the Law, (editor, 5th ed. 2016; 6th ed. 2020) (Wolters Kluwer). |
Articles
| Gender Therapy False Equivalency, Denver Law Review (forthcoming). |
| Law's Gender Ideology, 86 Maryland Law Review (forthcoming). |
| Transgender Disenfranchisement, 102 Washington University Law Review 1997 (2025). |
| Trans Animus, 65 Boston College Law Review 965 (2024). |
| Solidifying Students' Right to Gender Expression, 104 Boston University Law Review 503 (2024). |
| Privacy Without the State?, 104 Boston University Law Review 1043 (2024). |
| Identity by Committee, 57 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 657 (2022). |
| Anti-Subordination Torts, 83 Ohio State Law Journal 427 (2022). |
| Agonistic Privacy & Equitable Democracy, 131 Yale Law Journal Forum 454 (2021). |
| Recording as Heckling, 108 The Georgetown Law Journal 125 (2019). |
| Privacy's Double Standards, 93 Washington Law Review 2051 (2018). |
| The First Queer Right, 116 Michigan Law Review 881 (2018) (review essay). |
| Performative Privacy, 50 U.C. Davis Law Review 1673 (2017). |
| Marriage, Abortion, and Coming Out, 116 Columbia Law Review Online 126 (2016) (with Sylvia Law & Hugh Baran). |
| Outing Privacy, 110 Northwestern University Law Review 159 (2015). |
| Title IX's Protections for Transgender Student Athletes, 28 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society (2013) (with Ilona Turner). |
Online Essays
| Observing ICE is Legal. Killing Observers is Not, ACS Expert Forum Blog, Feb. 11, 2026. |
| Correcting the Common Sense of "Biological Sex", THE REGULATORY REVIEW, March 29, 2025. |
| Courts are Pumping the Brakes on Trump's Anti-Trans Crusade, ACS EXPERT FORUM BLOG, March 20, 2025. |
| Donald Trump's Executive Orders Aim to Create Jim Crow for Trans People, SLATE, Feb. 3, 2025. |
| The Faulty Logic behind the Supreme Court's Failure to Protect Trans Minors, New England Journal of Medicine, July 9, 2025. |
| Centering the Vulnerable Through Data Protection, JOTWELL, May 22, 2025 (reviewing Gianclaudio Malgieri, Vulnerability and Data Protection Law (2023). |
| Learning About LGBTQ Topics in School, NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY CENTER (NEPC) NEWSLETTER, Sept. 9, 2025. |
| Book Review: The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life (By Lowry Pressly), PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS (Aug 16, 2025). |
| Learning About LGBTQ Topics in School, Learning About LGBTQ Topics in School, National Education Policy Center (NEPC) Newsletter, Sept. 9, 2025 (with Bethy Leonardi & Sara Staley). |
| Getting Real About Protecting Privacy, JOTWELL, June 5, 2024 (reviewing IGNACIO COFONE, THE PRIVACY FALLACY: HARM AND POWER IN THE INFORMATION ECONOMY (2024). |
| Trans Emancipation Through Challenging the State, LAW & POLITICAL ECONOMY, Oct. 27, 2022 (reviewing ERIC A. STANLEY, ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE: STRUCTURING ANTAGONISM AND THE TRANS/QUEER UNGOVERNABLE (2021) & PAISLEY CURRAH, SEX IS AS SEX DOES: GOVERNING TRANSGENDER IDENTITY (2022). |
| Sexuality's Promise for Sexual Privacy, JOTWELL (Aug. 30, 2023) (reviewing Brenda Dvoskin, Speaking Back to Sexual Privacy Invasions, 99 WASH. L. REV. (forthcoming 2023). |
| Privacy isn't in the Constitution - but it's everywhere in constitutional law, THE CONVERSATION, June 15, 2022. |
| Debunking the Myth that Policy Body Cams are Civil Rights Tool, JOTWELL, Jan. 28, 2022, (reviewing BRYCE CLAYTON NEWELL: POLICE VISIBILITY: PRIVACY, SURVEILLANCE, AND THE FALSE PROMISE OF BODY-WORN CAMERAS (2021)). |
| Resisting the Regulatory Oppression of Transgender Children, THE REGULATORY REVIEW, July 1, 2021. |
| Pinkwashing the Supreme Court, TAKE CARE, July 2, 2020. |
| Trump Administration Tells Schools: Discriminate Against Trans Athletes or We'll Defund You, SLATE, June 04, 2020. |
| Don't Criminalize COVID-19, SLATE, March 27, 2020. |
| Free Speech Isn't a Free Pass for Privacy Violations, SLATE, March 9, 2020 (with Margot Kaminski). |
| Reclaiming the Right to the Future Tense, LAW & POLITICAL ECONOMY, September 4, 2019. |
| Queering the Gay Agenda, SLATE, June 18, 2019. |
| Arguing Queer Rights, TAKE CARE, Nov. 18, 2019. |
| The Person Is Political, SLATE, Oct. 23, 2018. |
| Federal Courts are Standing Up for the Sanctity of Transgender Lives, SLATE, June 21, 2018. |
| Masterpiece Cakeshop is Not a License to Discriminate, SLATE, June 4, 2018. |
| How Trump May Inadvertently Advance Transgender Rights, SLATE, Nov. 30, 2017. |
| Rules for Digital Radicals, JOTWELL, Nov. 14, 2017, (reviewing ZEYNEP TUFEKCI, TWITTER AND TEAR GAS: THE POWER AND FRAGILITY OF NETWORKED PROTEST (2017). |
| Trump's Anti-Trans Animus, Unmasked, TAKE CARE, Nov. 6, 2017. |
| Animus, Not Readiness: Trump & Mattis Move Full Speed Ahead on Unconstitutional Trans Military Ban, JUST SECURITY, Sept. 1, 2017. |
| Appeals Court: Discrimination Against Trans Students is Likely Illegal, SLATE, May 30, 2017. |
| Why Trans People Have a Constitutional Right to Change their Birth Certificates, SLATE, April 27, 2017. |
| The Right to the Public Square: Hoodies, Head Veils, & Bathrooms, MUFTAH, March 23, 2017. |
| The Supreme Court Should Decide the Gavin Grimm Case Now, SLATE, Feb. 27, 2017. |
| Trump Isn't the Sole Decider of Trans Students' Rights, SLATE, Feb. 17, 2017. |
| North Carolina's Catch-22, SLATE, May 16, 2016. |
| Bathroom Bills and the Battle Over Privacy, SLATE, May 10, 2016. |
| How Nixon and Rehnquist Paved the Way for Transgender Rights, SLATE, April 1, 2016. |
| North Carolina Just Lost Some of Its Charm, SALON, March 25, 2016 (critiquing North Carolina's anti-LGBT legislation as violating constitutional privacy protections). |
| Clinton's Mistake on Reagan Is an Opportunity for Action on HIV/AIDS, SLATE, March 18, 2016 (with Carolyn McAllaster). |
| Anti-Transgender Bathroom Bills are Unconstitutional, SLATE, Feb. 11, 2016. |
| The Department of Education's Common-Sense Approach to Transgender Inclusion, SLATE, Nov. 4, 2015. |
| How Obergefell Could Help Transgender Rights, SLATE, June 26, 2015. |
| Bad Blood: The FDA's Donation Rule Change for Gay and Bisexual Men is Sending the Wrong Message on HIV, THE NEW REPUBLIC, May 19, 2015. |
| The FDA Should Follow Europe's Lead and Create Blood Donor Policies Based on Evidence, SLATE, April 30, 2015. |
| The "Straight" Faces of Same-Sex Marriage, SLATE, April 24, 2015. |
| For LGBT Rights, the To-Do List is Still Long, SEATTLE TIMES, June 26, 2013. |
Selected Press, Media & Publicity
Courses:
| Fall 2026 | Disability Rights | LAWS 6555-801 |
| Fall 2026 | Civil Rights | LAWS 7025-801 |
| Spring 2026 | Constitutional Law | LAWS 6005-804 |
| Fall 2025 | Civil Rights | LAWS 7025-801 |
| Fall 2025 | Seminar: Sexuality, Gender Identity, and Law Seminar | LAWS 8665-801 |
| Fall 2024 | Disability Rights | LAWS 6555-801 |
| Fall 2024 | Civil Rights | LAWS 7025-801 |
| Spring 2024 | Constitutional Law | LAWS 6005-801 |
| Fall 2023 | Civil Rights | LAWS 7025-801 |
| Spring 2023 | Constitutional Law | LAWS 6005-801 |
| Fall 2022 | Seminar: Sexuality, Gender Identity, and Law Seminar | LAWS 8665-801 |
| Spring 2022 | Constitutional Law | LAWS 6005-801 |
| Spring 2022 | Civil Rights | LAWS 7025-801 |
| Fall 2021 | Disability Rights | LAWS 6555-801 |
| Spring 2021 | Constitutional Law | LAWS 6005-801 |
| Spring 2021 | Civil Rights | LAWS 7025-801 |
| Spring 2020 | Constitutional Law | LAWS 6005-802 |
| Spring 2020 | Civil Rights | LAWS 7025-801 |
| Spring 2019 | Constitutional Law | LAWS 6005-803 |
| Spring 2019 | Constitutional Law | LAWS 6005-904 |
| Fall 2018 | Disability Rights | LAWS 6555-801 |
| Fall 2018 | Civil Rights | LAWS 7025-801 |
| Spring 2018 | Constitutional Law | LAWS 6005-803 |
| Fall 2017 | Civil Rights | LAWS 7025-801 |
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a supportive and diverse educational and scholarly community in a place that inspires vigorous pursuit of ideas, critical analysis, contemplation, and civic engagement to advance knowledge about the law in an open, just society.
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