But for " recognized religious groups, the law did introduce some positive changes, such as granting registered religious organizations legal personhood, " the USCIRF report noted.
But these issues, these personhood initiative amendments, and the transvaginal discussion that happened in Virginia, how does that fit into your strategy?
If animals are self-aware, aware of others and have some measure of self-control, then they share some of the attributes used to define personhood in law.
Most cats who make the change don't want to be completely human, and most humans who do it want to keep some of their personhood, mainly for practical reasons.
And this wave of activism is growing alongside the movement to grant legal personhood to nature, from the Whanganui River in Aotearoa, New Zealand to the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in India.
So, as an Indigenous legal scholar and scientist, I believe that many of these water injustices are the result of the Western legal system's failure to recognize the legal personhood of water.