Boukli, Avi and Renz, Flora (2018) Gender murder: anti-trans rhetoric, zemia and telemorphosis. In, Kotzé, Justin and Boukli, Avi (eds.) Zemiology: reconnecting crime and social harm. (Critical Criminological Perspectives) Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 145-164. (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-76312-5_8).
Abstract
Is a genderless future going to be less harmful? Anne Fausto-Sterling, in the 2012 follow-up to ‘Sexing the Body’, exposes common myths surrounding contemporary understandings of sex and gender. For Fausto-Sterling contemporary socio-cultural and environmental factors incrementally change gender roles and even the biology of sex. Seeing bodies and the biological basis of gender as unbounded challenges how gender, crime, and harm can be perceived. With these social forces gradually transforming contemporary debates and wider gender norms, it is puzzling how interpersonal violence and structural harms still disproportionally target trans communities. This chapter draws on audio-visual examples of transphobia from North America, the UK and Greece, and utilises the concept of zemia to establish the zemiogenic conditions within which harmful acts take place when sex-gender is at stake
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