Gender Policing

Abstract

The issue of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) violence has been co-opted by a bullying industry that defines the problem in terms of antisocial individuals, discriminatory attitudes, and aggressive behaviors. The concept of gender policing advances the conversation about LGBTQ violence by drawing attention to the heteronormative social norms that are used to reproduce the lines between normal, different, and unacceptable. These (hetero) normative boundaries are used by youth (and adults) to regulate the identities and expressions of queer students in K-12 schools. This chapter argues that the conceptual shift from bullying to gender policing creates possibilities for transformative educational practice because the cultural norms underlying the violence become the objects of inquiry and targets of reform, rather than the violent behaviors themselves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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