Compulsory Legibility: How Purity Logic Governs Transitioned Women
This essay develops a framework for understanding how contemporary institutional responses to transitioned women operate through hidden origin markers, compelled disclosure, and bureaucratic reclassification. It argues that what is being governed is not visible trans difference, but imperceptible difference — the socially unmarked transitioned woman whose ordinary legibility as a woman defeats the classificatory system’s preferred cues.
