After reviewing the use of isolation in US prisons and public restrooms to confine transgender people in solitary cells and single‐occupancy bathrooms, I propose an explanatory theory of eliminative space. I argue that prisons and toilets are eliminative spaces: that is, spaces of waste management that use layers of isolation to sanctify social or individual waste, at the outer and inner limits of society. As such, they function according to an eliminative logic. Eliminative logic, as I develop it, involves three distinct but interrelated mechanisms: 1) purification of the social center, through 2) iterative segregation, presuming and enforcing 3) the reduced relationality of marginal persons. By evaluating the historical development and contemporary function of prisons and restrooms, I demonstrate that both seek to protect the gender binary through waves of segregation by sex, race, disability, and gender identity. I further argue that both assume the thin relationality of, in this case, transgender people, who are conceived of as impervious to the effects of isolation and thus always already isolable. I conclude that, if we are to counter the violence of these isolation practices, we not only need to think holistically about eliminative spaces and logic, but also to richly reconceptualize relationality.

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废物文化与隔离：监狱，厕所和性别隔离

在回顾了美国监狱和公共厕所中隔离的使用，以将变性人限制在单独的牢房和单人浴室中之后，我提出了一种解释性的解释性理论。我认为监狱和洗手间是消除性的空间：即废物管理空间，在社会的外部和内部界限，它们使用隔离层将社会或个人废物成圣。这样，它们根据消除逻辑起作用。在我发展的过程中，消除逻辑涉及三个不同但相互关联的机制：1）通过2）迭代隔离，推定和执行3）边缘人的减少的关系来净化社会中心。通过评估监狱和洗手间的历史发展和当代功能，我证明，两者都试图通过性别，种族，残疾和性别认同的隔离浪潮来保护性别二元。我进一步指出，在这种情况下，两者都假设跨性别者之间的关系薄弱，他们被认为不受隔离影响的影响，因此总是可以隔离的。我得出的结论是，如果我们要对抗这些孤立做法的暴力行为，我们不仅需要对消除空间和逻辑进行整体思考，而且还需要丰富地重新构想关系。