Published in Australian Feminist Studies.
"I argue that the assignment of sex circulates as an undead letter across the landscape of administrative law, repeatedly tethering trans and queer lives to an unchosen and ostensibly immutable past. Attending to the conceptual framework of necropolitics, this essay argues that anti-trans legislation enacts a phenomenon that I describe, in the end, as administrative maiming, a concept which specifies how anti-trans laws leave trans and queer lives purposefully inhibited – indeed wounded – in their efforts to rewrite their relation to the signifiers inscribed at birth."