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And I'm really excited to have our guest join us today.

Duran Dorfman is joining me to talk about disability as metaphor in the law.

Now, Duran is an associate professor of law at Seton Hall Law School,

and I asked him to come on to talk about a paper that he wrote that

we referenced in the episode that we did in September called In Taxonomy We Trust, which was about

a case where gender dysphoria was used as a qualifying impairment under the ADA.

Duran, welcome to the death panel. Thank you so much for coming on to talk about your work.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm thrilled to be here.

Just for people who are not familiar with your work, do you mind walking through a little bit

what your background is? I've read a lot of your work in the past on the kind of idea of

disability fakers and this idea of fraud, right? Which, for readers of health communism, this is a kind of idea

that Artie and I are very interested in researching the kind of idea of like how the role of the

malingerer works in terms of the way that we conceptualize our political economy. But sort of beyond that,

do you mind just sort of foregrounding what your general research is like and sort of what your work and background is?

Sure. And I wrote my dissertation about what I call fear of the disability con, which are perceptions of fraud and fakery kind of like what you alluded to with regard to the use of disability rights more generally.

So anything from social security benefits,

where I think people usually think about fraud and disability

to using disabled parking permits.

So I wrote a whole thing about that,

about service dogs and using emotional support animals

versus service dogs, think about perceptions of fraud

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