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{{Infobox person
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|name=Shain Mahaffey Neumeier
| name = Shain Mahaffey Neumeier
|post-nominals=Esq.
| post-nominals = Esq.
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1987}}
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1987}}
|birth_place =
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|death_date =
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|residence=Springfield, Massachusetts
| residence = Springfield, Massachusetts
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| nationality = American
|education=Bachelor of arts, [[Smith College]], 2009
| education = Bachelor of arts, [[Smith College]], 2009
Juris doctor, [[Suffolk University Law School]], 2012
Juris doctor, [[Suffolk University Law School]], 2012
|occupation=Attorney, activist
| occupation = Attorney, activist
|known_for=Disability, youth, and transgender rights activism
| known_for = Disability, youth, and transgender rights activism
|home_town=Pasadena, California
| home_town = Pasadena, California
|movement=
| movement =
|partner=[[Lydia Brown]]
| partner = [[Lydia Brown]]
|father=[[Ed Neumeier]]
| father = [[Ed Neumeier]]
|awards=Leadership in Advocacy Award, [[Association of University Centers on Disabilities]]
| awards = Leadership in Advocacy Award, [[Association of University Centers on Disabilities]]; Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award, [[Massachusetts Bar Association]]
|honours=[[Phi Delta Phi]]
| honours = [[Phi Delta Phi]]
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{{Autism rights movement|expanded=people}}
{{Autism rights movement|expanded=people}}


'''Shain Mahaffey Neumeier''' (born 1987) is an American [[Societal and cultural aspects of autism|autistic]] and [[nonbinary]] [[transgender]] activist and attorney from Los Angeles, California.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jan/15/opinion/le-neumeier15|title=Distinguishing Between Media and Reality|date=2003-01-15|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/03/16/activists-tell-fda-head-ban-electric-shocks-people-autism/|title=Activists Tell FDA Head: Ban Electric Shocks on People With Autism - Rewire.News|work=Rewire.News|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rootedinrights.org/15-autistic-activists-you-should-follow-this-autism-acceptance-month/|title=15 Autistic Activists You Should Follow This Autism Acceptance Month - Rooted in Rights|website=www.rootedinrights.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-14|date=2018-04-26}}</ref><ref name=":22"/><ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.autostraddle.com/im-not-done-living-my-damn-life-yet-disabled-queer-people-speak-out-on-the-american-health-care-act-379413/?all=1|title="I'm Not Done Living My Damn Life Yet": Disabled Queer People Speak Out on the American Health Care Act|date=2017-06-12|work=Autostraddle|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US}}</ref> An activist for [[Disability rights movement|disability rights]], [[youth liberation]], [[asexuality]], and [[transgender rights]], Neumeier was diagnosed as [[Autism spectrum|autistic]] in 2010 while a law student.<ref name=":22">{{Cite news|url=http://www.columbiachronicle.com/arts_and_culture/article_d5253a32-9515-11e7-84a2-4305676a5c8c.html|title=Clashing Communities: Autistic and LGBTQ individuals fight for their right to be both|last=Editor|first=Brooke Pawling Stennett, Digital Managing|work=Columbia Chronicle|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en}}</ref> They also have other disabilities including [[Depression (mood)|depression]], [[Posttraumatic stress disorder|post-traumatic stress disorder]], [[Cleft lip and cleft palate|cleft lip and palate]], and [[ectodermal dysplasia]].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/republicans-are-using-fear-of-eugenics-to-attack-reproductive-rights/|title=Republicans Are Using Fear of Eugenics to Attack Reproductive Rights|last=Perry|first=David M.|date=2018-01-04|work=The Nation|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US|issn=0027-8378}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=http://www.autcom.org/conf2015/AutCom%202015%20Conference%20Program.pdf|title=AutCom 2015 Conference Program|last=Autism National Committee|date=2015}}</ref> Neumeier endorses [[Abortion-rights movement|abortion rights]] activism while also strongly opposing contemporary [[eugenics]], such as the idea that people should necessarily avoid bringing pregnancies to term where the fetus might have a disability once born.<ref name=":4" />
'''Shain Mahaffey Neumeier''' (born 1987) is an American [[Societal and cultural aspects of autism|autistic]] and [[nonbinary]] [[transgender]] activist and attorney from Los Angeles, California.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jan/15/opinion/le-neumeier15|title=Distinguishing Between Media and Reality|date=2003-01-15|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/03/16/activists-tell-fda-head-ban-electric-shocks-people-autism/|title=Activists Tell FDA Head: Ban Electric Shocks on People With Autism - Rewire.News|work=Rewire.News|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rootedinrights.org/15-autistic-activists-you-should-follow-this-autism-acceptance-month/|title=15 Autistic Activists You Should Follow This Autism Acceptance Month - Rooted in Rights|website=www.rootedinrights.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-14|date=2018-04-26}}</ref><ref name=":22"/><ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.autostraddle.com/im-not-done-living-my-damn-life-yet-disabled-queer-people-speak-out-on-the-american-health-care-act-379413/?all=1|title="I'm Not Done Living My Damn Life Yet": Disabled Queer People Speak Out on the American Health Care Act|date=2017-06-12|work=Autostraddle|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US}}</ref> An activist for [[Disability rights movement|disability rights]], [[youth liberation]], [[asexuality]], and [[transgender rights]], Neumeier was diagnosed as [[Autism spectrum|autistic]] in 2010 while a law student.<ref name=":22">{{Cite news|url=http://www.columbiachronicle.com/arts_and_culture/article_d5253a32-9515-11e7-84a2-4305676a5c8c.html|title=Clashing Communities: Autistic and LGBTQ individuals fight for their right to be both|last=Editor|first=Brooke Pawling Stennett, Digital Managing|work=Columbia Chronicle|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en}}</ref><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|last=Journal|first=A. B. A.|website=ABA Journal|language=en|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> They also have other disabilities including [[Depression (mood)|depression]], [[Posttraumatic stress disorder|post-traumatic stress disorder]], [[Cleft lip and cleft palate|cleft lip and palate]], and [[ectodermal dysplasia]].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/republicans-are-using-fear-of-eugenics-to-attack-reproductive-rights/|title=Republicans Are Using Fear of Eugenics to Attack Reproductive Rights|last=Perry|first=David M.|date=2018-01-04|work=The Nation|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US|issn=0027-8378}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=http://www.autcom.org/conf2015/AutCom%202015%20Conference%20Program.pdf|title=AutCom 2015 Conference Program|last=Autism National Committee|date=2015}}</ref>


Neumeier endorses [[Abortion-rights movement|abortion rights]] activism while also strongly opposing contemporary [[eugenics]], such as the idea that people should necessarily avoid bringing pregnancies to term where the fetus might have a disability once born.<ref name=":4" />
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Neumeier is best known for advocacy 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]] known for use of electric skin shock [[Aversion therapy|aversive treatment]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" />


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Neumeier is best known for advocacy against coercive and [[Involuntary commitment|forced treatment]], especially advocating to close the [[Judge Rotenberg Educational Center|Judge Rotenberg Center]], an institution for people with [[Developmental disability|developmental disabilities]] known for use of electric skin shock [[Aversion therapy|aversive treatment]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Rotenberg: 'Culture of abuse' or miracle worker?|url=https://canton.wickedlocal.com/news/20181126/rotenberg-culture-of-abuse-or-miracle-worker|last=Reporting|first=Jenifer B. McKimNew England Center for Investigative|website=Canton Journal|language=en|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>
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Neumeier supported the FDA's ban of electric shock devices in 2020 at the Judge Rotenberg Center, but said that the government must find other options for those affected.<ref name="JRCBan">{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Heather |title=After FDA bans Massachusetts school from using electric shock devices, advocates seek public apology, reparations |url=https://www.masslive.com/news/2020/03/after-fda-bans-judge-rotenberg-center-from-using-electric-shock-devices-advocates-seek-public-apology-reparations.html |accessdate=13 March 2020 |work=masslive |date=9 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

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Neumeier supported the [[Food and Drug Administration|FDA]]'s ban of electric shock devices in 2020 at the Judge Rotenberg Center, but said that the government must find other options for those affected.<ref name="JRCBan">{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Heather |title=After FDA bans Massachusetts school from using electric shock devices, advocates seek public apology, reparations |url=https://www.masslive.com/news/2020/03/after-fda-bans-judge-rotenberg-center-from-using-electric-shock-devices-advocates-seek-public-apology-reparations.html |accessdate=13 March 2020 |work=masslive |date=9 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==
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Neumeier is best known for advocacy 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]] known for use of electric skin shock [[Aversion therapy|aversive treatment]].<ref name="Perry">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/my-body-my-choice-why-the-principle-of-bodily-autonomy-can-unite-the-left/|title=My Body, My Choice: Why the Principle of Bodily Autonomy Can Unite the Left|last=Perry|first=David M.|date=2017-09-13|work=The Nation|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US|issn=0027-8378}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":8">{{Cite journal|last=Adams|first=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|issn=1462-4745}}</ref>
Neumeier is best known for advocacy 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]] known for use of electric skin shock [[Aversion therapy|aversive treatment]].<ref name="Perry">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/my-body-my-choice-why-the-principle-of-bodily-autonomy-can-unite-the-left/|title=My Body, My Choice: Why the Principle of Bodily Autonomy Can Unite the Left|last=Perry|first=David M.|date=2017-09-13|work=The Nation|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US|issn=0027-8378}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":8">{{Cite journal|last=Adams|first=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|issn=1462-4745}}</ref>


The Judge Rotenberg Center has been a major issue of contention in the [[autism rights movement]], with many neurodiversity and disability rights organizations condemning the electric skin shock aversive treatment as inhumane, while its supporters, who may be parents, former residents, or clinicians, believe that the treatments are beneficial and life-saving.<ref name=":9">{{Cite news|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/08/school-shock/|title=The School of Shock|work=Mother Jones|access-date=2018-05-20|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2008/06/17/the-shocking-truth/|title=The Shocking Truth – Boston Magazine|date=2008-06-17|work=Boston Magazine|access-date=2018-05-20|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite journal|last=Kirkham|first=Patrick|date=2017|title='The line between intervention and abuse' – autism and applied behaviour analysis|journal=History of the Human Sciences|volume=30|issue=2|pages=107–126|doi=10.1177/0952695117702571}}</ref> In 2012, Neumeier attended a [[medical malpractice]] trial against the Judge Rotenberg Center brought by former resident Andre McCollins, who received 31 shocks over a period of six hours.<ref name=":7" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/andre-mccollins-rotenberg-center-2012-9/|title=31 Shocks Later|website=NYMag.com|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref>
The Judge Rotenberg Center has been a major issue of contention in the [[autism rights movement]], with many neurodiversity and disability rights organizations condemning the electric skin shock aversive treatment as inhumane, while its supporters, who may be parents, former residents, or clinicians, believe that the treatments are beneficial and life-saving.<ref name=":9">{{Cite news|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/08/school-shock/|title=The School of Shock|work=Mother Jones|access-date=2018-05-20|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2008/06/17/the-shocking-truth/|title=The Shocking Truth – Boston Magazine|date=2008-06-17|work=Boston Magazine|access-date=2018-05-20|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite journal|last=Kirkham|first=Patrick|date=2017|title='The line between intervention and abuse' – autism and applied behaviour analysis|journal=History of the Human Sciences|volume=30|issue=2|pages=107–126|doi=10.1177/0952695117702571}}</ref>

In 2012, Neumeier attended and reported extensively on a [[medical malpractice]] trial against the Judge Rotenberg Center brought by former resident Andre McCollins, who received 31 shocks over a period of six hours.<ref name=":7" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/andre-mccollins-rotenberg-center-2012-9/|title=31 Shocks Later|website=NYMag.com|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref> Neumeier also testified before the [[United Nations special rapporteur on torture|United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture]] about the Judge Rotenberg Center.<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=https://awnnetwork.org/|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref><ref name=":12" />

As an attorney in solo practice, Neumeier represented Sarah Villa, a 17 year old former student at the Judge Rotenberg Center, whose parents said had been punched in the face by staff while being restrained on a bus.<ref name=":13">{{Cite web|title=Abuse Claims Persist For Canton-Based Special Needs School|url=http://features.wgbhnews.org/abuse-claims-persist-for-canton-based-special-needs-school-|date=2018-10-28|website=WGBH News|language=en|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> Neumeier describes the Judge Rotenberg Center's approach as harmful both for the shocks and for other abusive practices, using the term "culture of institutional abuse."<ref name=":13" />

The [[Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network]] stated that "without [Neumeier's] groundbreaking work, JRC might not have the same level of visibility it does now in the autistic community worldwide."<ref name=":11" />

In 2019, [[University of Portsmouth]] [[psychology]] professor Dr. Steven K. Kapp wrote, "Shain Neumeier and [[Lydia Brown]] [...] have taken leading roles in activism to stop the electric use of shocks as 'treatment', raising the profile of the issue and providing strong legal and ethical arguments that have assisted progress toward banning the tortuous practice."<ref>{{Citation|last=Kapp|first=Steven K.|title=Introduction|date=2020|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_1|work=Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline|pages=1–19|editor-last=Kapp|editor-first=Steven K.|publisher=Springer|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_1|isbn=978-981-13-8437-0|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>


===Published articles===
===Published articles===
Neumeier published a series of seven articles for the [[Autistic Self Advocacy Network]] about the trial testimony, including an account of the first instance that video of the electric skin shocks was made available for public viewing.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-judge-rotenberg-center-on-trial-part-one/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part One {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-judge-rotenberg-center-on-trial-part-two/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part Two {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-judge-rotenberg-center-on-trial-part-3/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part 3 {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-judge-rotenberg-center-on-trial-part-4/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part 4 {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-judge-rotenberg-center-on-trial-part-5/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part 5 {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-judge-rotenberg-center-on-trial-part-6/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part 6 {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-jrc-on-trial-part-7/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part 7 {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref>{{overcite|date=January 2019}} Neumeier also testified at the [[Food and Drug Administration|U.S. Food and Drug Administration]]'s 2014 public hearing on a proposal to ban electric shock treatments for [[Behavior modification|behavioral modification]] of people with [[Developmental disability|developmental disabilities]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FDA-2014-N-0238-0055|title=Regulations.gov|website=www.regulations.gov|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/00_2014/08-2014/24-Hour-Meeting-Summary-Aversive-Conditioning-final4-28.pdf|title=Summary of the Neurological Devices Panel Meeting April 24, 2014|last=Food and Drug Administration|first=|date=24 April 2014|work=|access-date=}}</ref> In 2016, Neumeier published an op-ed in [[USA Today]] calling for a final ban on the electric shock aversives.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/05/16/skin-shock-ban-feda-disabled-autism-column/84438230/ | title=Past time to ban skin shocks to disabled: Column}}</ref> Neumeier opposes use of electric skin shock aversive treatment as a form of torture, and believes its use is connected to the [[Behavior modification|behavioral modification]] goals of [[applied behavior analysis]], a widely used form of [[Early childhood intervention|early intervention]] treatment for [[autism]].<ref name=":6" />
Neumeier published a series of seven articles for the [[Autistic Self Advocacy Network]] about the trial testimony, including an account of the first instance that video of the electric skin shocks was made available for public viewing.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-judge-rotenberg-center-on-trial-part-one/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part One {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-judge-rotenberg-center-on-trial-part-two/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part Two {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-judge-rotenberg-center-on-trial-part-3/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part 3 {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-judge-rotenberg-center-on-trial-part-4/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part 4 {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-judge-rotenberg-center-on-trial-part-5/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part 5 {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-judge-rotenberg-center-on-trial-part-6/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part 6 {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/the-jrc-on-trial-part-7/|title=The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part 7 {{!}} Autistic Self Advocacy Network|last=Network|first=Autistic Self Advocacy|website=autisticadvocacy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref>{{overcite|date=January 2019}} Neumeier also testified at the [[Food and Drug Administration|U.S. Food and Drug Administration]]'s 2014 public hearing on a proposal to ban electric shock treatments for [[Behavior modification|behavioral modification]] of people with [[Developmental disability|developmental disabilities]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FDA-2014-N-0238-0055|title=Regulations.gov|website=www.regulations.gov|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/00_2014/08-2014/24-Hour-Meeting-Summary-Aversive-Conditioning-final4-28.pdf|title=Summary of the Neurological Devices Panel Meeting April 24, 2014|last=Food and Drug Administration|first=|date=24 April 2014|work=|access-date=}}</ref> In 2016, Neumeier published an op-ed in [[USA Today]] calling for a final ban on the electric shock aversives.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/05/16/skin-shock-ban-feda-disabled-autism-column/84438230/ | title=Past time to ban skin shocks to disabled: Column}}</ref> Neumeier opposes use of electric skin shock aversive treatment as a form of torture, and believes its use is connected to the [[Behavior modification|behavioral modification]] goals of [[applied behavior analysis]], a widely used form of [[Early childhood intervention|early intervention]] treatment for [[autism]].<ref name=":6" />

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Neumeier has also written and commented on [[reproductive justice]], [[Abortion-rights movements|abortion rights]], and [[Bodily integrity|bodily autonomy]] for ''[[The Nation]],''<ref name=":4" /><ref name="Perry" /> [[Rewire.News|Rewire]],<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|title='To Siri With Love' and the Problem With Neurodiversity Lite - Rewire.News|language=en-US|work=Rewire.News|url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/02/09/siri-love-problem-neurodiversity-lite/|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> and ''[[NOS Magazine]].''<ref>{{Cite news|date=2017-04-11|title=The Disability Rights Movement Must Be Pro-Choice|language=en-US|work=NOS Magazine|url=http://nosmag.org/disability-rights-must-be-pro-choice/|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2017-12-19|title=New Compliance Tracking Drugs Violate Human Rights|language=en-US|work=NOS Magazine|url=http://nosmag.org/compliance-tracking-drugs-violate-human-rights-abilify-mycite/|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> One of Neumeier's articles about abuse and discrimination against children with disabilities in the educational context was published in translation by Icelandic disability rights organization [[Tabú (organization)|Tabú]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Neumeier|first=Shain|others=Freyja Haraldsdóttir (translator)|date=May 10, 2017|title=Afstofnannavæðið skólakerfið!|language=Icelandic|work=Tabú|url=http://tabu.is/afstofnannavaedid-skolakerfid/|access-date=2018-05-22}}</ref>

In Neumeier's essay for disability rights activist [[Alice Wong (activist)|Alice Wong]]'s 2018 collection ''Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People'', they describe life in the U.S. under the [[Presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] as creating a "culture of abuse" and relying on a form of [[social Darwinism]] that praises strength and vilifies perceived weakness, such as desire for safe spaces.<ref name=":14">{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1089194812|title=Resistance and hope : essays by disabled people|others=Wong, Alice,|isbn=978-0-463-25570-4|location=[Los Gatos]|oclc=1089194812}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Quirici|first=Marion|date=2019-11-01|title=15Disability Studies|url=https://academic.oup.com/ywcct/article/27/1/282/5541044|journal=The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory|language=en|volume=27|issue=1|pages=282–302|doi=10.1093/ywcct/mbz015|issn=1077-4254}}</ref> Neumeier argues that many disabled activists take up advocacy because they have experienced trauma and lack of safety, and so choose "to go back into the fires that forged us again and again to pull the rest of us out, and to eventually put the fires out altogether."<ref name=":14" />

In 2019, Neumeier co-authored an article describe their and [[Lydia Brown]]'s advocacy work against the [[Judge Rotenberg Center]] for a collection of essays titled ''Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline''.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2020|editor-last=Kapp|editor-first=Steven K.|title=Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement|url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0|language=en-gb|doi=10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0}}</ref><ref name=":15">{{Citation|last=Neumeier|first=Shain M.|title=Torture in the Name of Treatment: The Mission to Stop the Shocks in the Age of Deinstitutionalization|date=2020|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_14|work=Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline|pages=195–210|editor-last=Kapp|editor-first=Steven K.|publisher=Springer|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_14|isbn=978-981-13-8437-0|access-date=2020-05-17|last2=Brown|first2=Lydia X. Z.}}</ref>


===Law student===
===Law student===
While a law student, Neumeier authored a pamphlet on the use of [[Physical restraint|restraint and seclusion]] on [[Special education in the United States|special education]] students in Massachusetts public schools, as an intern for the [[Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs037/1102157695491/archive/1103545827214.html|title=Rappaport Center Spring/Summer Newsletter|website=archive.constantcontact.com|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref> After graduating from [[Smith College]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smith.edu/news/2008-09/seniorstoryshain-135.php|title=Smith College: News|website=www.smith.edu|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> and [[Suffolk University Law School]], Neumeier worked on [[youth rights]] policy issues for the [[Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth]].<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>
While a law student, Neumeier authored a pamphlet on the use of [[Physical restraint|restraint and seclusion]] on [[Special education in the United States|special education]] students in Massachusetts public schools, as an intern for the [[Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs037/1102157695491/archive/1103545827214.html|title=Rappaport Center Spring/Summer Newsletter|website=archive.constantcontact.com|access-date=2018-05-20}}</ref> After graduating from [[Smith College]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smith.edu/news/2008-09/seniorstoryshain-135.php|title=Smith College: News|website=www.smith.edu|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> and [[Suffolk University Law School]], Neumeier worked on [[youth rights]] policy issues for the [[Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth]].<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>


===Conference===
===Conferences===
Neumeier represented CAFETY at an industry conference of children's and youth behavioral modification residential treatment programs hosted by the American Association of Children's Residential Centers, at which Neumeier advocated against the use of what they described as "fear-based marketing techniques" advertising quick fixes for challenging behavior and for more stringent regulations on treatment programs for youth.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cafety.org/legislation/state-legislation/853-cafetys-qnational-gatheringq-report-sponsored-by-natsap-a-aacrc|title=CAFETY's Report on the NATSAP & AACRC sponsored "National Gathering"|date=2013-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120055821/http://www.cafety.org/legislation/state-legislation/853-cafetys-qnational-gatheringq-report-sponsored-by-natsap-a-aacrc|access-date=2018-05-17|archive-date=2013-01-20}}</ref> In December 2013, upon invitation by the [[United Nations special rapporteur on torture|United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture]], Neumeier joined CAFETY's Executive Director Kathryn Whitehead for an expert consultation meeting hosted at the [[Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law|Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law]] on [[United Nations Convention against Torture|torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment]] in health-care settings with [[International human rights law|international human rights]] organizations, and delivered a presentation on systemic patterns of abuses in youth residential treatment programs, which CAFETY refers to as the [[Behavior modification facility|troubled teen industry]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cafety.org/press/110-press-release/915-cafety-un-meeting-troubled-teen|title=UN Meeting: With Your Support, International Recognition|date=2013-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120055650/http://www.cafety.org/press/110-press-release/915-cafety-un-meeting-troubled-teen|access-date=2018-05-17|archive-date=2013-01-20}}</ref>
Neumeier represented CAFETY at an industry conference of children's and youth behavioral modification residential treatment programs hosted by the American Association of Children's Residential Centers, at which Neumeier advocated against the use of what they described as "fear-based marketing techniques" advertising quick fixes for challenging behavior and for more stringent regulations on treatment programs for youth.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cafety.org/legislation/state-legislation/853-cafetys-qnational-gatheringq-report-sponsored-by-natsap-a-aacrc|title=CAFETY's Report on the NATSAP & AACRC sponsored "National Gathering"|date=2013-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120055821/http://www.cafety.org/legislation/state-legislation/853-cafetys-qnational-gatheringq-report-sponsored-by-natsap-a-aacrc|access-date=2018-05-17|archive-date=2013-01-20}}</ref>
In December 2013, upon invitation by the [[United Nations special rapporteur on torture|United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture]], Neumeier joined CAFETY's Executive Director Kathryn Whitehead for an expert consultation meeting hosted at the [[Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law|Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law]] on [[United Nations Convention against Torture|torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment]] in health-care settings with [[International human rights law|international human rights]] organizations, and delivered a presentation on systemic patterns of abuses in youth residential treatment programs, which CAFETY refers to as the [[Behavior modification facility|troubled teen industry]].<ref name=":12">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cafety.org/press/110-press-release/915-cafety-un-meeting-troubled-teen|title=UN Meeting: With Your Support, International Recognition|date=2013-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120055650/http://www.cafety.org/press/110-press-release/915-cafety-un-meeting-troubled-teen|access-date=2018-05-17|archive-date=2013-01-20}}</ref>

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As an advocate in the [[neurodiversity]] and [[transgender rights]] movements, Neumeier has spoken at conferences including the annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference at [[Yale Law School]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rebellious Lawyering Program|url=https://reblaw.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2018_final_reblaw_program_0.pdf|last=Yale Law School|date=2018}}</ref> [[Creating Change Conference|Creating Change]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Creating Change 2018 Program|url=https://www.creatingchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/CC18-Program-C.pdf|last=National LGBTQ Task Force|date=January 2018}}</ref> the [[Autism National Committee]],<ref name=":5" /> [[Brandeis University]]'s DEIS Impact Roundtable for Social Justice,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Summary of Events {{!}} 'DEIS Impact {{!}} Brandeis University|url=https://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/deisimpact/past/2016pages/2016Summaries.html|website=www.brandeis.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> the inaugural Disability Intersectionality Summit in [[Boston]],<ref>{{Citation|last=Disability Intersectionality Summit|title=Shain Neumeier - For Your Own Good: Coercive Care in the Lives of Marginalized People|date=2017-03-10|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2FO1qJkCAU|accessdate=2018-05-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Weekly Update from Disability Policy Consortium|url=http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Weekly-Update-from-Disability-Policy-Consortium.html?soid=1102752268502&aid=dDlr5gCsj9k|website=myemail.constantcontact.com|access-date=2018-05-17}}</ref> and the [[Georgetown University]] Lecture and Performance Series on Disability Justice.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Lecture & Performance Series on Disability Justice – Disability Justice for Georgetown|url=http://www.disabilityjusticegu.com/events/disability-justice-series/|website=www.disabilityjusticegu.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> In August 2017, Neumeier delivered the keynote address at the [[National Empowerment Center]]'s Alternatives Conference for [[Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement|consumers and peers with mental health disabilities]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Alternatives 2017 Program|url=http://transformation-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/8.3.17.ToPrinter.Alternatives-program.pdf|last=National Empowerment Center|date=3 August 2017}}</ref> Neumeier also gave the keynote for the 2019 [[Mad Pride]] celebration organized by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors, and for the 2019 [[Autism National Committee]] conference.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Brattleboro gathering on mental health a blend of protest and pride|url=https://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/brattleboro-gathering-on-mental-health-a-blend-of-protest-and-pride/article_763ecb55-5888-56e2-9a21-af7b00951fc6.html|last=Staff|first=Meg McIntyre Sentinel|website=SentinelSource.com|language=en|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=More Power to Us: Civil Rights for Autistics|url=https://autcom.org/conf2019/2019%20program.pdf|last=[[Autism National Committee]]|first=|date=November 1, 2019|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Communicator|url=http://autcom.org/conf2019/2019%20Conference%20Newsletter.pdf|last=[[Autism National Committee]]|first=|date=October 2019|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>


===Attorney===
===Attorney===
Later as an attorney, Neumeier worked for Disability Rights New York, a statewide [[The Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000|protection and advocacy]] agency for people with disabilities, before going into solo practice in [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehoya.com/panel-talks-disability-rights/|title=Panel Talks Disability Rights|date=2014-10-31|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://rewire.news/author/shain-m-neumeier/|title=Shain M. Neumeier - Rewire.News|work=Rewire.News|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US}}</ref> Neumeier is also an adviser for [[Supported Decision-Making New York]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://sdmny.org/about-sdmny/advisors/|title=Supported Decision-Making New York {{!}} Advisors|work=Supported Decision-Making New York|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US}}</ref> a statewide coalition focused on development of best practices and policies to enable people with [[Intellectual disability|intellectual disabilities]] and [[cognitive impairments]] to increase individual autonomy while receiving support for complex decision-making processes, such as financial, medical, or services eligibility issues.
Later as an attorney, Neumeier worked for Disability Rights New York, a statewide [[The Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000|protection and advocacy]] agency for people with disabilities, before going into solo practice in [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehoya.com/panel-talks-disability-rights/|title=Panel Talks Disability Rights|date=2014-10-31|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://rewire.news/author/shain-m-neumeier/|title=Shain M. Neumeier - Rewire.News|work=Rewire.News|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US}}</ref> Neumeier is also an adviser for [[Supported Decision-Making New York]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://sdmny.org/about-sdmny/advisors/|title=Supported Decision-Making New York {{!}} Advisors|work=Supported Decision-Making New York|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US}}</ref> a statewide coalition focused on development of best practices and policies to enable people with [[Intellectual disability|intellectual disabilities]] and [[cognitive impairments]] to increase individual autonomy while receiving support for complex decision-making processes, such as financial, medical, or services eligibility issues.


In Neumeier's law practice, they represent people facing petitions for [[involuntary commitment]] as part of the attorney panel for the Massachusetts [[Committee for Public Counsel Services]], primarily at bench trials.<ref name=":10" />
===Adviser===
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Neumeier is also an adviser and New England Region Leader for the [[Intersex and Genderqueer Recognition Project]], a [[transgender rights]] legal and advocacy organization that works to secure legal recognition of [[Discrimination against non-binary gender persons|nonbinary gender identities]], such as through [[Gender neutrality|gender-neutral]] [[Sex assignment|sex]] or [[Gender marking in job titles|gender markers]] on government-issued identification.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.intersexrecognition.org/about|title=About|last=Intersex and Genderqueer Recognition Project|language=en|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref>

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As an advocate in the [[neurodiversity]] and [[transgender rights]] movements, Neumeier has spoken at conferences including the annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference at [[Yale Law School]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://reblaw.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2018_final_reblaw_program_0.pdf|title=Rebellious Lawyering Program|last=Yale Law School|date=2018}}</ref> [[Creating Change Conference|Creating Change]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.creatingchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/CC18-Program-C.pdf|title=Creating Change 2018 Program|last=National LGBTQ Task Force|date=January 2018}}</ref> the [[Autism National Committee]],<ref name=":5" /> [[Brandeis University]]'s DEIS Impact Roundtable for Social Justice,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/deisimpact/past/2016pages/2016Summaries.html|title=Summary of Events {{!}} 'DEIS Impact {{!}} Brandeis University|website=www.brandeis.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> the inaugural Disability Intersectionality Summit in [[Boston]],<ref>{{Citation|last=Disability Intersectionality Summit|title=Shain Neumeier - For Your Own Good: Coercive Care in the Lives of Marginalized People|date=2017-03-10|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2FO1qJkCAU|accessdate=2018-05-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Weekly-Update-from-Disability-Policy-Consortium.html?soid=1102752268502&aid=dDlr5gCsj9k|title=Weekly Update from Disability Policy Consortium|website=myemail.constantcontact.com|access-date=2018-05-17}}</ref> and the [[Georgetown University]] Lecture and Performance Series on Disability Justice.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.disabilityjusticegu.com/events/disability-justice-series/|title=Lecture & Performance Series on Disability Justice – Disability Justice for Georgetown|website=www.disabilityjusticegu.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> In August 2017, Neumeier delivered the keynote address at the [[National Empowerment Center]]'s Alternatives Conference for [[Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement|consumers and peers with mental health disabilities]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://transformation-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/8.3.17.ToPrinter.Alternatives-program.pdf|title=Alternatives 2017 Program|last=National Empowerment Center|date=3 August 2017}}</ref>


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Neumeier is also an adviser and New England/New York Region Leader for the [[Intersex and Genderqueer Recognition Project]], a [[transgender rights]] legal and advocacy organization that works to secure legal recognition of [[Discrimination against non-binary gender persons|nonbinary gender identities]], such as through [[Gender neutrality|gender-neutral]] [[Sex assignment|sex]] or [[Gender marking in job titles|gender markers]] on government-issued identification.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.intersexrecognition.org/about|title=About|last=Intersex and Genderqueer Recognition Project|language=en|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref>
===Author===
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Neumeier has also written and commented on [[reproductive justice]], [[Abortion-rights movements|abortion rights]], and [[Bodily integrity|bodily autonomy]] for ''[[The Nation]],''<ref name=":4" /><ref name="Perry"/> [[Rewire.News|Rewire]],<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/02/09/siri-love-problem-neurodiversity-lite/|title='To Siri With Love' and the Problem With Neurodiversity Lite - Rewire.News|work=Rewire.News|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US}}</ref> and ''[[NOS Magazine]].''<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nosmag.org/disability-rights-must-be-pro-choice/|title=The Disability Rights Movement Must Be Pro-Choice|date=2017-04-11|work=NOS Magazine|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nosmag.org/compliance-tracking-drugs-violate-human-rights-abilify-mycite/|title=New Compliance Tracking Drugs Violate Human Rights|date=2017-12-19|work=NOS Magazine|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en-US}}</ref> One of Neumeier's articles about abuse and discrimination against children with disabilities in the educational context was published in translation by Icelandic disability rights organization [[Tabú (organization)|Tabú]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://tabu.is/afstofnannavaedid-skolakerfid/|title=Afstofnannavæðið skólakerfið!|last=Neumeier|first=Shain|date=May 10, 2017|work=Tabú|access-date=2018-05-22|others=Freyja Haraldsdóttir (translator)|language=Icelandic}}</ref>


===Award===
===Awards===
Neumeier received the Leadership in Advocacy Award from the [[Association of University Centers on Disabilities]] in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aucd.org/template/news.cfm?news_id=11581&id=17|title=AUCD - 2015 AUCD Leadership in Advocacy Award|website=www.aucd.org|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref>
Neumeier received the Leadership in Advocacy Award from the [[Association of University Centers on Disabilities]] in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aucd.org/template/news.cfm?news_id=11581&id=17|title=AUCD - 2015 AUCD Leadership in Advocacy Award|website=www.aucd.org|access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> Later, in 2018, Neumeier received the Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award from the [[Massachusetts Bar Association]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=eJournal-2018-August-08-02|url=https://www.massbar.org/publications/ejournal/ejournal-article/ejournal-2018-august-08-02|website=www.massbar.org|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=eJournal-2018-August-08-16|url=https://www.massbar.org/publications/ejournal/ejournal-article/ejournal-2018-august-08-16/dinner|website=www.massbar.org|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Neumeier's father is screenwriter [[Edward Neumeier]], known in part for co-writing the 1987 film ''[[RoboCop]]''.<ref name=":2" />
Neumeier's father is screenwriter [[Edward Neumeier]], known for co-writing the 1987 film ''[[RoboCop]]''.<ref name=":2" />


==Selected works==
==Selected works==
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*Neumeier, Shain, "Inhumane Beyond All Reason: The Torture of Autistics and Other People with Disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center," in ''Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking'' edited by Julia Bascom (The Autistic Press, 2012)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking|last=Bascom|first=Julia|publisher=The Autistic Press|year=2012|isbn=978-1938800023|location=Washington, DC|pages=204–220}}</ref>
*Neumeier, Shain, "Inhumane Beyond All Reason: The Torture of Autistics and Other People with Disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center," in ''Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking'' edited by Julia Bascom (The Autistic Press, 2012)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking|last=Bascom|first=Julia|publisher=The Autistic Press|year=2012|isbn=978-1938800023|location=Washington, DC|pages=204–220}}</ref>
*Neumeier, Shain. "MTV's portrayal of teen treatment centers is misleading," in ''Teen Residential Treatment Programs (At Issue)'' edited by Judeen Bartos (Greenhaven Press, 2013)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Teen residential treatment programs|publisher=Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning|others=Bartos, Judeen., Thomson Gale (Firm)|year=2013|isbn=9780737761498|location=Detroit|pages=|oclc=930684586|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/teenresidentialt0000unse}}</ref>
*Neumeier, Shain. "MTV's portrayal of teen treatment centers is misleading," in ''Teen Residential Treatment Programs (At Issue)'' edited by Judeen Bartos (Greenhaven Press, 2013)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Teen residential treatment programs|publisher=Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning|others=Bartos, Judeen., Thomson Gale (Firm)|year=2013|isbn=9780737761498|location=Detroit|pages=|oclc=930684586|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/teenresidentialt0000unse}}</ref>
*Neumeier, Shain, "Back into the Fires that Forged Us," in ''Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People'' edited by [[Alice Wong (activist)|Alice Wong]] (Disability Visibility Project, 2018)<ref name=":14" />
*Neumeier, Shain and Brown, Lydia, "Torture in the Name of Treatment: The Mission to Stop the Shocks in the Age of Deinstitutionalization," in ''Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline'' edited by Steven K. Kapp (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)<ref name=":15" />


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Shain Mahaffey Neumeier
Esq.
Born1987 (age 36–37)
NationalityAmerican
EducationBachelor of arts, Smith College, 2009 Juris doctor, Suffolk University Law School, 2012
Occupation(s)Attorney, activist
Known forDisability, youth, and transgender rights activism
PartnerLydia Brown
FatherEd Neumeier
AwardsLeadership in Advocacy Award, Association of University Centers on Disabilities; Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award, Massachusetts Bar Association
HonoursPhi Delta Phi
Neurodiversity paradigm
Philosophy
Organizations
Events
Issues
People
Films
Criticism

Shain Mahaffey Neumeier (born 1987) is an American autistic and nonbinary transgender activist and attorney from Los Angeles, California.[1][2][3][4][5] An activist for disability rights, youth liberation, asexuality, and transgender rights, Neumeier was diagnosed as autistic in 2010 while a law student.[4][6] They also have other disabilities including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, cleft lip and palate, and ectodermal dysplasia.[5][7][8]

Neumeier endorses abortion rights activism while also strongly opposing contemporary eugenics, such as the idea that people should necessarily avoid bringing pregnancies to term where the fetus might have a disability once born.[7]

Neumeier is best known for advocacy against coercive and forced treatment, especially advocating to close the Judge Rotenberg Center, an institution for people with developmental disabilities known for use of electric skin shock aversive treatment.[2][9][10][11]

Neumeier supported the FDA's ban of electric shock devices in 2020 at the Judge Rotenberg Center, but said that the government must find other options for those affected.[12]

Biography

Advocacy

Neumeier is best known for advocacy against coercive and forced treatment, including advocacy to close the Judge Rotenberg Center, an institution for people with developmental disabilities known for use of electric skin shock aversive treatment.[13][2][9]

The Judge Rotenberg Center has been a major issue of contention in the autism rights movement, with many neurodiversity and disability rights organizations condemning the electric skin shock aversive treatment as inhumane, while its supporters, who may be parents, former residents, or clinicians, believe that the treatments are beneficial and life-saving.[10][14][15]

In 2012, Neumeier attended and reported extensively on a medical malpractice trial against the Judge Rotenberg Center brought by former resident Andre McCollins, who received 31 shocks over a period of six hours.[16][17] Neumeier also testified before the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture about the Judge Rotenberg Center.[18][19]

As an attorney in solo practice, Neumeier represented Sarah Villa, a 17 year old former student at the Judge Rotenberg Center, whose parents said had been punched in the face by staff while being restrained on a bus.[20] Neumeier describes the Judge Rotenberg Center's approach as harmful both for the shocks and for other abusive practices, using the term "culture of institutional abuse."[20]

The Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network stated that "without [Neumeier's] groundbreaking work, JRC might not have the same level of visibility it does now in the autistic community worldwide."[18]

In 2019, University of Portsmouth psychology professor Dr. Steven K. Kapp wrote, "Shain Neumeier and Lydia Brown [...] have taken leading roles in activism to stop the electric use of shocks as 'treatment', raising the profile of the issue and providing strong legal and ethical arguments that have assisted progress toward banning the tortuous practice."[21]

Published articles

Neumeier published a series of seven articles for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network about the trial testimony, including an account of the first instance that video of the electric skin shocks was made available for public viewing.[16][22][23][24][25][26][27][excessive citations] Neumeier also testified at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's 2014 public hearing on a proposal to ban electric shock treatments for behavioral modification of people with developmental disabilities.[28][29] In 2016, Neumeier published an op-ed in USA Today calling for a final ban on the electric shock aversives.[30] Neumeier opposes use of electric skin shock aversive treatment as a form of torture, and believes its use is connected to the behavioral modification goals of applied behavior analysis, a widely used form of early intervention treatment for autism.[15]

Neumeier has also written and commented on reproductive justice, abortion rights, and bodily autonomy for The Nation,[7][13] Rewire,[2][31] and NOS Magazine.[32][33] One of Neumeier's articles about abuse and discrimination against children with disabilities in the educational context was published in translation by Icelandic disability rights organization Tabú.[34]

In Neumeier's essay for disability rights activist Alice Wong's 2018 collection Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People, they describe life in the U.S. under the Trump administration as creating a "culture of abuse" and relying on a form of social Darwinism that praises strength and vilifies perceived weakness, such as desire for safe spaces.[35][36] Neumeier argues that many disabled activists take up advocacy because they have experienced trauma and lack of safety, and so choose "to go back into the fires that forged us again and again to pull the rest of us out, and to eventually put the fires out altogether."[35]

In 2019, Neumeier co-authored an article describe their and Lydia Brown's advocacy work against the Judge Rotenberg Center for a collection of essays titled Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline.[37][38]

Law student

While a law student, Neumeier authored a pamphlet on the use of restraint and seclusion on special education students in Massachusetts public schools, as an intern for the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee.[39] After graduating from Smith College[40] and Suffolk University Law School, Neumeier worked on youth rights policy issues for the Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth.[41]

Conferences

Neumeier represented CAFETY at an industry conference of children's and youth behavioral modification residential treatment programs hosted by the American Association of Children's Residential Centers, at which Neumeier advocated against the use of what they described as "fear-based marketing techniques" advertising quick fixes for challenging behavior and for more stringent regulations on treatment programs for youth.[42]

In December 2013, upon invitation by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Neumeier joined CAFETY's Executive Director Kathryn Whitehead for an expert consultation meeting hosted at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law on torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment in health-care settings with international human rights organizations, and delivered a presentation on systemic patterns of abuses in youth residential treatment programs, which CAFETY refers to as the troubled teen industry.[19]

As an advocate in the neurodiversity and transgender rights movements, Neumeier has spoken at conferences including the annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference at Yale Law School,[43] Creating Change,[44] the Autism National Committee,[8] Brandeis University's DEIS Impact Roundtable for Social Justice,[45] the inaugural Disability Intersectionality Summit in Boston,[46][47] and the Georgetown University Lecture and Performance Series on Disability Justice.[48][49] In August 2017, Neumeier delivered the keynote address at the National Empowerment Center's Alternatives Conference for consumers and peers with mental health disabilities.[50] Neumeier also gave the keynote for the 2019 Mad Pride celebration organized by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors, and for the 2019 Autism National Committee conference.[51][52][53]

Attorney

Later as an attorney, Neumeier worked for Disability Rights New York, a statewide protection and advocacy agency for people with disabilities, before going into solo practice in Massachusetts.[48][54] Neumeier is also an adviser for Supported Decision-Making New York,[55] a statewide coalition focused on development of best practices and policies to enable people with intellectual disabilities and cognitive impairments to increase individual autonomy while receiving support for complex decision-making processes, such as financial, medical, or services eligibility issues.

In Neumeier's law practice, they represent people facing petitions for involuntary commitment as part of the attorney panel for the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, primarily at bench trials.[6]

Neumeier is also an adviser and New England/New York Region Leader for the Intersex and Genderqueer Recognition Project, a transgender rights legal and advocacy organization that works to secure legal recognition of nonbinary gender identities, such as through gender-neutral sex or gender markers on government-issued identification.[56]

Awards

Neumeier received the Leadership in Advocacy Award from the Association of University Centers on Disabilities in 2015.[57] Later, in 2018, Neumeier received the Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award from the Massachusetts Bar Association.[58][59]

Personal life

Neumeier's father is screenwriter Edward Neumeier, known for co-writing the 1987 film RoboCop.[1]

Selected works

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  • Neumeier, Shain, "Inhumane Beyond All Reason: The Torture of Autistics and Other People with Disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center," in Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking edited by Julia Bascom (The Autistic Press, 2012)[60]
  • Neumeier, Shain. "MTV's portrayal of teen treatment centers is misleading," in Teen Residential Treatment Programs (At Issue) edited by Judeen Bartos (Greenhaven Press, 2013)[61]
  • Neumeier, Shain, "Back into the Fires that Forged Us," in Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People edited by Alice Wong (Disability Visibility Project, 2018)[35]
  • Neumeier, Shain and Brown, Lydia, "Torture in the Name of Treatment: The Mission to Stop the Shocks in the Age of Deinstitutionalization," in Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline edited by Steven K. Kapp (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)[38]

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