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Part II. Cissexual Necropolitics: The Political Project to Unmake Trans Life
II. The Transgender Adolescent and Cissexual Necropower While specific diagnostic terminology have shifted across history, it has long been the case that to access transition-related healthcare, a person (regardless of age) generally requires a diagnostic grounding for their needs(Gill-Peterson, 2018). This is borne out of both the needs associated with securing insurance coverage to mitigate the costs of these medications for patients, as well as the reality that gender affi
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Part I. Cissexual Necropolitics: The Political Project to Unmake Trans Life
“Neoliberal capitalism has left in its wake a multitude of destroyed subjects, many of whom are deeply convinced that their immediate future will be one of continuous exposure to violence and existential threat. “In the streetfight that politics will become, reason will not matter. Nor will facts.” (Mbembe, 2019) I. Necropower and Cissexual Statecraft The United States (U.S.) maintains an established gender paradigm that regards cisgender and sex-determinist (hereafter refe
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