Shain Neumeier

Shain A. Mahaffey Neumeier (born 1987) is an American autistic and nonbinary transgender attorney. Neumeier advocates against coercive and forced treatment, including advocacy to close the Judge Rotenberg Center, an institution for people with developmental disabilities. They are also an activist for autism rights, disability rights, and other associated causes.

Personal life
Neumeier has multiple disabilities including post-traumatic stress disorder and cleft lip and palate.

Education and career
Neumeier studied at Smith College and Suffolk University Law School and later worked on youth rights policy issues for CAFETY. As an attorney, they are in solo practice in Massachusetts. Their law practice represents people facing petitions for involuntary commitment.

Activism and writing
Neumeier advocates against coercive and forced treatment, and has called for the closure of the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), an institution which uses electric skin shock aversion therapy on people with developmental disabilities. Neumeier also testified before the United Nations special rapporteur on torture about the JRC.

In Marquis Who's Who featured Neumeier in their 2021 October Maker's List.

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.

Selected publications

 * Shain A M Neumeier & Lydia X Z Brown, 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,