30407 - Trans Life Chances under Institutionalized Violence and Discrimination

Description

Within the last decade, the maturation of trans social movements has provoked a global backlash against “gender ideology.” This spectacular combustion has illuminated two urgent areas of inquiry into which sociological research can offer crucial data and analysis. The first is the study of institutions that unevenly distribute life chances and disciplinary measures among the population. How has the codification of anti-trans measures through state law and federal executive orders transformed the practices and discourses of institutions such as state legislatures, medical clinics, and police departments? How have such institutions unevenly distributed access and punishment across trans and nonbinary populations even in the absence of explicit anti-trans measures?
Secondly, sociologists can contribute urgently needed data and analyses on the intersectional study of trans life chances. Available data on the alarming rates of murder and arrest among Black trans women have made it clear that trans people cannot be studied as an undifferentiated group. How do the intersectional vectors of gender, sexuality, race, and class unequally distribute life chances across trans and nonbinary populations? When trans individuals experience negative outcomes, when is it because they are trans, when is it because they belong to another marginalized social group, and when is it due to the unique intersection of more than one form of marginalization? What existing theories and analytics developed for the study of non-trans people might sociologists draw from to illuminate the differential life chances of trans populations and when do trans populations require revised or novel theories and analytics?
This regular session in Trans Studies showcases cutting-edge research on the intersectional distribution of trans individuals’ life chances in relation to institutionalized violence and discrimination.

Sub Unit

• Transgender Studies

Presider

• Christoph Hanssmann, University of California-Davis

Individual Presentations

• On “Evil,” “Mutilation,” and “Castration:” Rhetoric and the Politics of Trans Disposability in Florida - Emily Via, University of Illinois-Chicago

• Politicized Healthcare: Transgender and Nonbinary Emerging Adults’ Experiences Navigating Restrictive Healthcare Legislation in Florida - Shannon K. Carter, University of Central Florida; Sylvia Stewart, University of Central Florida; Dahlia Wrubluski; Elena Cyrus; Eric Schrimshaw; J. Scott Carter, University of Central Florida; Taliaferro A. Lindsay

• Strategizing Gender: Navigating Criminalized (Trans)Masculinity in the Greater Area of Buenos Aires - Francis J Fabre, University of Chicago

• The Matrix of Violence: The Role of Sexuality in Violence against Transgender People - Laurel Westbrook, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Trans Women Who Care: Reproductive Labor Outside the Charmed Circle - Joss Taylor Greene, University of California-Davis; Woods Ervin, Critical Resistance

Session Organizer

• Kadji Amin, Emory University