We conclude the book with an epilogue that will act as a call to action. In this section we will propose an alternative approach to legal embodimentlegal embodiment and the law. It is in this section that we will propose a care-based and intersectional model of approaching the law. We will address the need to develop a legal framework that foregrounds vulnerability theory and deprioritizes the liberal legal approach. The most recent anti-trans policies from the TrumpTrump administration have followed in the footsteps of the 1950s’ Lavender ScareLavender Scare, when queer individuals had been demonized as threats to the social order and purged from the public sphere. As in the Lavender Scare, the contemporary attacks institutionalize cultural and legal anxieties to govern bodies and silence lives, constructing transgendertransgender people as threats to morality and public order. These policies are shocking revivals of State-sponsored discipline: they recall McCarthyism and its practices of surveillance and control targeted toward anyone perceived as deviantdeviant. By arguing for a rejection of these cycles of punishment through the anchoring of legal approaches in vulnerability theory, this epilogue envisions a legal system centered on care and protection that dismantles recurring scapegoating of marginalized groups and builds a more just and inclusive society.

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Epilogue: The Body and the Sacred

  • Riley Clare Valentine,
  • Zane McNeill

摘要

We conclude the book with an epilogue that will act as a call to action. In this section we will propose an alternative approach to legal embodimentlegal embodiment and the law. It is in this section that we will propose a care-based and intersectional model of approaching the law. We will address the need to develop a legal framework that foregrounds vulnerability theory and deprioritizes the liberal legal approach. The most recent anti-trans policies from the TrumpTrump administration have followed in the footsteps of the 1950s’ Lavender ScareLavender Scare, when queer individuals had been demonized as threats to the social order and purged from the public sphere. As in the Lavender Scare, the contemporary attacks institutionalize cultural and legal anxieties to govern bodies and silence lives, constructing transgendertransgender people as threats to morality and public order. These policies are shocking revivals of State-sponsored discipline: they recall McCarthyism and its practices of surveillance and control targeted toward anyone perceived as deviantdeviant. By arguing for a rejection of these cycles of punishment through the anchoring of legal approaches in vulnerability theory, this epilogue envisions a legal system centered on care and protection that dismantles recurring scapegoating of marginalized groups and builds a more just and inclusive society.