Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State Fischer Mia
Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State Fischer Mia The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media, exemplified by…
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Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State Fischer Mia
The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media, exemplified by Time magazine's declaration that 2014 marked a "transgender tipping point," was widely believed to signal a civil rights breakthrough for trans communities in the United States. Tracing how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of these trans women, Fischer exposes the traps of visibility by illustrating that dominant representations of trans people as deceptive, deviant, and threatening are integral to justifying, normalizing, and reinforcing the state-sanctioned violence enacted against them.The heightened In Terrorizing Gender Mia Fischer challenges this narrative of progress, bringing together transgender, queer, critical race, legal, surveillance, and media studies to analyze the cases of Chelsea Manning, CeCe McDonald, and Monica Jones.