ABSTRACT
Policy changes affirming transgender identities in some women’s colleges and the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of America point to increasing institutional integration of trans people in the United States, a weakening of hegemonic gender ideology, and the emergence and affirmation of an alternative gender paradigm. However, anti-transgender “bathroom bills” have passed in several states, reflecting an increase in what Viviane Namaste called “institutional erasure” (2000). It is, then, an ideal time to examine the conditions under which gender minorities continue to experience misrecognition in social interactions.
