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This chapter draws out the impacts of neo-liberal capitalist consumerism on trans peoples’ experiences of harm at the hands of the state. The experiences discussed reveal the limitations of the existent legal framework to support and protect. In addition, they illuminate how neo-liberal capitalist consumerism forces us into competition with one another and trans people specifically to comply with transformative ideals in order to access limited public resources. The chapter evidences the requirement on trans people to demonstrate compliance with a politically negotiated acceptable identity in order to achieve recognition and explains how these conditions are generative of subject identities. The discussion contributes a critical perspective on trans activism, commonly proposed as evidence of resilience, as a symbolic harm, involving unpaid emotional labour, that result from the failures of the state to adequately acknowledge trans lived experiences or provide for trans people as respected equal citizens.
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Article 8 The right to respect for private and family life, his home and his correspondence; Article 12: Men and women of marriageable age have the right to marry and to found a family, according to the national laws governing the exercise of this right.
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McBride, K. (2023). Respect. In: Trans Individuals Lived Experiences of Harm. Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24715-6_6
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