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Trans Rights and Gender Authoritarianism (w/ Gillian Branstetter)

ReImagining Liberty

CHAPTER

The Politics of Gender

Gender can function as a tool for this kind of social and or political control is that it's it gives us this set of rules. The justification of the murder of Jordan Nealey is a panic about transgression of a class and racial order right? There are all these different structures that would seem to be analogous to gender so why does gender specifically have so much purchase now but not other kinds of trans border transgressions well I think I the gender panic is threaded alongside and within, you know watch any prime time hour on Fox News and you're likely to see those right next to panic about migrants at the border," she said.

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