Producing Trans Economicus: Deploying Market Logic in the Fight for Trans Rights
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article analyzes how market logic is deployed to secure trans rights under neoliberalism in Canada and the U.S. I argue that by embodying the ‘ideal’ neoliberal subject, productive trans persons are granted access to state institutions and social services, including transition-related medical care. This is achieved through the accumulation of what Foucault (2008) calls “human capital” and appealing to market logic (cost-benefit analysis). While doing so may afford certain trans people – namely white, affluent, and able-bodied – increased access to services and material success, it ultimately reinforces neoliberal logic, further obscuring and exacerbating social and economic inequalities. I argue that trans persons who achieve material success are upheld as ‘proof’ that neoliberalism functions as a meritocracy, shifting the burden of social and economic responsibility away from the state and onto the individual.RésuméCet article fait l’analyse critique de la défense des droits des personnes transgenre au Canada et aux États-Unis sous des politiques néolibérales. Mon argument est que les personnes transgenres performantes ont accès aux institutions et aux services publics, y compris les soins médicaux liés à la transition, si elles incarnent « l’idéal » néolibéral. Cet idéal est atteint à travers l’accumulation de « capital humain » comme le définit Foucault (2008) et de l’intérêt selon la logique du marché (analyses coûts-avantages). Bien que cette politique offre l’accès aux services et le succès matériel à certains transgenres — pour la plupart des blancs, riches et sans handicap — en fin de compte, la logique néolibérale est confortée, et les inégalités sociales et économiques obscurcies et exacerbées. Les personnes transgenres ayant réussi matériellement sont présentées comme étant la « preuve » que le néolibéralisme est un système qui offre l’égalité des chances. Le poids des responsabilités sociales et économiques est transféré à l’individu, privant de leurs droits les membres les plus marginalisés de la communauté transgenre.Mots clés: Droits des transgenres ; politique sociale néolibérale ; logique du marché ; capital humain
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.076 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".