PHIL-020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Gay Panic Defense, Root Mean Square, Gaslighting
3 Nov 2016
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Evil deceivers and make-believers: on transphobic violence and the politics of illusion. Briefing: this examines the stereotype that transgender people are deceivers and the stereotype"s role in promoting and excusing transphobic violence; contrast between gender presentation and sexed body; Bettcher argues that people who misalign gender presentation and genital status are deceivers (2) Gwen araujo case beaten and killed after being revealed as transgender (2) Even though he believes that genital anatomy should be gender, he still refers to gwen as a her. Accusations that gwen araujo had herself engaged in wrongdoing (sexual deception) (3) Someone justified the killing of gwen bc they said that she violated and raped the men that killed her (3) Bettcher is a white, anglo, transsexual woman (4) Transgender = people who do not appear to conform to traditional gender norms by presenting and living genders that were not assigned to them at birth (5)
