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This reflection explores how emotion shapes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights and law reforms. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the author maps how disgust regulates sexuality, hate manifests in hate crime penalties, anger arises in anti-discrimination measures, fear polices refugee law, anxiety shapes trans children's access to medical transition, pity and compassion inhibit intersex autonomy, and love enables marriage equality. Legal scholars, activists, lawyers, and judges need to take emotion seriously to better address the pressing challenges facing LGBTI people.

In this chapter, we draw from Davina Cooper (2019) to consider how we—as legal advocates and scholars—might "play" with(in) the state to pursue LGBTIQ rights. We do this by exploring four case studies of reform in the United Kingdom: self-determination as a means of obtaining legal gender recognition (currently proposed reform); intersex experiences with medicine and rights (subject of a recent Government Equalities Office Call for Information); the adjudication of LGBT asylum claims (under Home Office review); and LGBT Relationships and Sex Education in schools (policy to be implemented in England no later than the start of the summer term 2021). In discussing these case studies and bringing the core themes of this collection together, we address our concluding remarks to the following three questions: (I) why do LGBTIQ people seek to come inside law? (II) what has happened to LGBTIQ people who have come inside the law? and (III) what can be gained from staying or playing outside?