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'''Shain A. Mahaffey Neumeier'''<ref>POWELL, R. M. Disability Reproductive Justice. [[University of Pennsylvania Law Review]], ''[s. l.]'', v. 170, n. 7, p. 1851–1903, 2022. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=163323797&site=eds-live&scope=site. Acesso em: 7 jun. 2023.</ref> (born 1987) is an American [[Societal and cultural aspects of autism|autistic]] and [[nonbinary]] [[transgender]] attorney
== Personal life ==
Neumeier has multiple disabilities including [[Posttraumatic stress disorder|post-traumatic stress disorder]], [[Cleft lip and cleft palate|cleft lip and palate]] and [[ectodermal dysplasia]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Neumeier |first=Shain M. |author-link=Shain Neumeier |date=2015-05-21 |title=About |url=https://silencebreakingsound.wordpress.com/about/ |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=Silence Breaking Sound |language=en |archive-date=2023-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411190231/https://silencebreakingsound.wordpress.com/about/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>''Working with Autistic Transgender and Non-Binary People: Research, Practice and Experience''. (2021). United Kingdom: [[Jessica Kingsley Publishers]]. p188 (contributor profile)</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wang |first=Alexandra |title= ''Shain Neumeier: Advice on Autism, Non-Binaries, and Transgenderism: Treatment, Laws, and Ethics'' |url=https://madameactivist.wordpress.com/2018/10/09/interview-with-shain-neumeier-advice-on-autism-gender-non-binaries-and-transgenderism-treatment-laws-and-ethics/ |access-date=2024-10-14 |date=2018-09-23}}</ref>
== Education and career ==
Neumeier studied at [[Smith College]] and [[Suffolk University Law School]] and later worked on [[youth rights]] policy issues for [[Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth|CAFETY]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autismnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Autistic-View-Of-Employment-Edited.pdf|title=An Autistic View of Employment: Advice, Essays, Stories, and More from Autistic Self Advocates|last=Autism NOW Center|date=June 2013|access-date=2018-05-14|archive-date=2017-11-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111164947/http://autismnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Autistic-View-Of-Employment-Edited.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> As an attorney, they are in solo practice in [[Massachusetts]]. Their law practice represents people facing petitions for [[involuntary commitment]].<ref name=":10">{{Cite web|title=For lawyers with autism, the work often pairs up with things they do well|url=https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/for-lawyers-with-autism-the-work-often-pairs-up-with-things-they-do-well|access-date=2020-05-17|website=ABA Journal|language=en|archive-date=2020-06-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612111658/https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/for-lawyers-with-autism-the-work-often-pairs-up-with-things-they-do-well|url-status=live}}</ref>▼
==Activism and writing==▼
Neumeier advocates against coercive and [[Involuntary commitment|forced treatment]], and has called for the closure of the [[Judge Rotenberg Educational Center|Judge Rotenberg Center]] (JRC), an institution which uses [[Graduated electronic decelerator|electric skin shock]] [[aversion therapy]] on people with [[Developmental disability|developmental disabilities]].<ref name=":02"/><ref name=":82"/> Neumeier also testified before the [[United Nations special rapporteur on torture]] about the JRC.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|title=Stop the shocks: New toolkit builds on autistic community's anti-JRC work - Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN)|url=https://awnnetwork.org/stop-the-shocks-new-toolkit-builds-on-autistic-communitys-anti-jrc-work/|last=daVanport|first=Sharon|website=www.awnnetwork.org|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17|archive-date=2020-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519023939/https://awnnetwork.org/stop-the-shocks-new-toolkit-builds-on-autistic-communitys-anti-jrc-work/|url-status=live}}</ref>▼
In ''[[Marquis Who's Who]]'' featured Neumeier in their 2021 ''October Maker's List.''<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=5 Oct 2021 |title=In Honor of National Arts and Humanities Month, Marquis Who's Who Presents the Arts, Culture, Sports and Entertainment Moguls Maker's List |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/in-honor-of-national-arts-and-humanities-month-marquis-whos-who-presents-the-arts-culture-sports-and-entertainment-moguls-makers-list-301392606.html |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=Cision PR Newswire |publisher=[[Marquis Who's Who]] |language=en |archive-date=2022-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129173431/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/in-honor-of-national-arts-and-humanities-month-marquis-whos-who-presents-the-arts-culture-sports-and-entertainment-moguls-makers-list-301392606.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
Neumeier's essay ''Back into the Fires that Forged Us'' appeared in the 2018 book ''Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People'' (ISBN 9780463255704). Their essay addressed how disability activism has been criminalized in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cipriani |first=Belo |date=20 Feb 2019 |title=Seeing in the Dark: New book raises profile of disability community |url=https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=news&id=272555 |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=[[Bay Area Reporter]] |language=en-us}}</ref>
▲'''Shain Mahaffey Neumeier''' (born 1987) is an American [[Societal and cultural aspects of autism|autistic]] and [[nonbinary]] [[transgender]] attorney from [[Los Angeles, California]].<ref name=":02">{{Cite news|title=Activists Tell FDA Head: Ban Electric Shocks on People With Autism - Rewire.News|language=en-US|work=Rewire.News|url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/03/16/activists-tell-fda-head-ban-electric-shocks-people-autism/|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> Neumeier advocates against coercive and [[Involuntary commitment|forced treatment]], including advocacy to close the [[Judge Rotenberg Educational Center|Judge Rotenberg Center]], an institution for people with [[Developmental disability|developmental disabilities]].<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":82">{{Cite journal|last1=Adams|first1=DL|last2=Erevelles|first2=Nirmala|date=2017-04-21|title=Unexpected spaces of confinement: Aversive technologies, intellectual disability, and "bare life"|journal=Punishment & Society|volume=19|issue=3|pages=348–365|doi=10.1177/1462474517705147|s2cid=152056345|issn=1462-4745}}</ref> They are also an activist for [[Autism rights movement|autism rights]], [[Disability rights movement|disability rights]], and other associated causes. Neumeier has multiple disabilities including [[Posttraumatic stress disorder|post-traumatic stress disorder]] and [[Cleft lip and cleft palate|cleft lip and palate]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}
=== Selected publications ===
▲Neumeier studied at [[Smith College]] and [[Suffolk University Law School]] and later worked on [[youth rights]] policy issues for [[Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth|CAFETY]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autismnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Autistic-View-Of-Employment-Edited.pdf|title=An Autistic View of Employment: Advice, Essays, Stories, and More from Autistic Self Advocates|last=Autism NOW Center|date=June 2013}}</ref> As an attorney, they are in solo practice in [[Massachusetts]]. Their law practice represents people facing petitions for [[involuntary commitment]].<ref name=":10">{{Cite web|title=For lawyers with autism, the work often pairs up with things they do well|url=https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/for-lawyers-with-autism-the-work-often-pairs-up-with-things-they-do-well|access-date=2020-05-17|website=ABA Journal|language=en}}</ref>
* Shain A M Neumeier & Lydia X Z Brown, ''[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34247676/ Beyond Diversity and Inclusion: Understanding and Addressing Ableism, Heterosexism, and Transmisia in the Legal Profession: Comment on Blanck, Hyseni, and Altunkol Wise's National Study of the Legal Profession],'' {{doi|10.1017/amj.2021.3}}<ref>Editor's Notes. '''LGBT Law Notes''', ''[s. l.]'', p. 55, 2021. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=qth&AN=151925849&site=eds-live&scope=site. Acesso em: 7 jun. 2023.</ref><ref>Blanck, P., Hyseni, F., & Wise, F. A. (2021). ''Diversity and inclusion in the american legal profession: Discrimination and bias reported by lawyers with disabilities and lawyers who identify as LGBTQ+''. ''[[American Journal of Law & Medicine|American Journal of Law and Medicine]], 47''(1), 9-61. {{doi|10.1017/amj.2021.1}}</ref>
▲==Activism==
▲Neumeier advocates against coercive and [[Involuntary commitment|forced treatment]], and has called for the closure of the [[Judge Rotenberg Educational Center|Judge Rotenberg Center]] (JRC), an institution which uses [[Graduated electronic decelerator|electric skin shock]] [[aversion therapy]] on people with [[Developmental disability|developmental disabilities]].<ref name=":02"/><ref name=":82"/> Neumeier also testified before the [[United Nations special rapporteur on torture]] about the JRC.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|title=Stop the shocks: New toolkit builds on autistic community's anti-JRC work - Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN)|url=https://awnnetwork.org/stop-the-shocks-new-toolkit-builds-on-autistic-communitys-anti-jrc-work/|last=daVanport|first=Sharon|website=www.awnnetwork.org|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>
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==External links==
*[https://silencebreakingsound.wordpress.com Neumeier's personal blog]
*[https://www.disabilityjusticelaw.com Neumeier's law firm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180522112242/https://www.disabilityjusticelaw.com/ |date=2018-05-22 }}
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