Episode 105: Chase Strangio
Gender Reveal
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Is There a Point in State Violence Against Trans People?
I think that if you look back on sort of the history of various state building projects, that there is a strong impulse in all of them to control bodies. And so part of it is just this impulse to maintain power and control through this really theological vision of the Christian white nuclear heterosexual family. This is a part of that, that the trans person, the trans body represents a deviance from that. If those who have this particular theological orientation combined with this state power impulse, what that does is it empowers the state to further control people's bodies.
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