ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book seeks to interrogate the regulation of intimacy and desire by the liberal state in one specific context, that of sexual relations between cisgender and gender non-conforming people in circumstances where the former claim to lack knowledge of the latter's gender history. In addition to being against prosecution, and seeking to foster a reimagined ethical relation between cisgender and transgender people, the book has been animated by a series of themes, which not only elucidate the predicament of gender non-conforming people within our criminal justice system and society more generally, but also offer important insights in relation to broader questions and debates within criminal justice and sexual politics. Another important theme that emerges from considering gender identity fraud cases, and their legal resolution, is the theme of harm and, more particularly, how we understand the harm concept.
