Michael R. Ulrich, Policing Gender: The Interest Convergence of Women's and Transgender Rights, Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, Vol. 28 (forthcoming).
This Essay first observes in Part I how the increasing rhetoric around gender roles and the gender binary dovetail to surreptitiously ensconce the gender hierarchy. Part II examines how the need to enforce anti-trans laws paves the way for heightened surveillance of women. This leads to a discussion in Part III of how women who support and defend anti-trans laws are likely advocating against their own interests and could be helping to justify expanding transgender surveillance to include reproductive data as a means to avoid more intimate inspections.