Disgust as a weapon in the colonial war against trans existences

Abstract

The war against trans bodies is based on the imposition of cisnormativity as a regulatory principle of what different bodies can or cannot be. This text critically and reflectively questions this assumption and its deadly effects against the trans population, understanding cis-heteronormativity as a weapon of war. This weapon finds a key ammunition: disgust, an emotion that becomes central in the politics of rejection against trans people. The analysis is based not only on well-known statistics on trans deaths but seeks to illustrate the centrality of disgust in the consolidation of this anti-trans war.