What can the killing of a transgender teen can teach us about the
violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity? The Life
and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting
of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brian McInerney in their
junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The
press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that
followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry.
Unpacking the consequences of representing the victim as Larry, a
gay boy, instead of Latisha, a trans girl, Gayle Salamon draws on
the resources of feminist phenomenology to analyze what happened in
the school and at the trial that followed. In building on the
phenomenological concepts of anonymity and comportment, Salamon
considers how gender functions in the social world and the dangers
of being denied anonymity as both a particularizing and
dehumanizing act. Salamon offers close readings of the court
transcript and the bodily gestures of the participants in the
courtroom to illuminate the ways gender and race were both evoked
in and expunged from the narrative of the killing. Across court
documents and media coverage, Salamon sheds light on the relation
between the speakable and unspeakable in the workings of the
transphobic imaginary. Interdisciplinary in both scope and method,
the book considers the violences visited upon gender-nonconforming
bodies that are surveilled and othered, and the contemporary
resonances of the Latisha King killing.
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