Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices

Toby Beauchamp, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies

Going Stealth demonstrates how the enforcement of gender conformity is linked to state surveillance practices that identify threats based on racial, gender, national, and ableist categories of difference. Beauchamp brings the fields of disability, science and technology, and surveillance studies into conversation with transgender studies to show how the scrutinizing of gender nonconformity is motivated less by explicit transgender identities than by the perceived threat that gender nonconformity poses to the U.S. racial and security state.