Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Texas DS | Judge:
1AC

Contention 1: Cisprivilege and The Terrorist-Monster

We must begin any discussion of the resolution by understanding the history of the Terrorist. This terrorist is but the newest incarnation of modernity’s monster, based in its core on those bodies who defy normative interpretation. The terrorist-monster becomes a sexual object that society must discipline
Puar and Rai 02
Jasbir K. Puar, Associate Professor oF WGSS at Rutgers, Amit Rai¶ Associate Professor oF WGSS at Rutgers, Amit Rai Senior Lecturer in New Media and Communication. Queen Mary University of London, “Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots”¶ Social Text, 72 (Volume 20, Number 3), Fall 2002, pp. 117-148 (Article)¶ Published by Duke University Press
To begin, let us consider the monster. …it seems a certain grid of civilizational progress organized by such keywords as “democracy,” “freedom,” and “humanity” have come to superintend the figure of the monster.
Specifically, the terrorist-monster and our current national security lens emerge from a cis-privileged perspective that transmutes flawed, binary notions of gender into friend/enemy dichotomies
Beauchamp 09
Toby, Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies¶ PhD, Cultural Studies, UC Davis¶ Areas of Interest and Expertise:¶ Feminist and Queer Theory¶ Transgender Studies¶ Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies¶ University of California, Davis, USA Artful Concealment and Strategic Visibility: Article Transgender Bodies and U.S. State¶ Surveillance After 9/11 Surveillance and Society 6(4): 356-366.¶                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ¶ ¶ On September 4, 2003, shortly before ….support the increased policing of deviant bodies.
The impact is expansion of sovereignty and global annihilation - drone warfare and targeted killings are the military extension of the social project to fit the world into binary terms commensurate with cis-privileged experience of gender
Wilcox 09
Lauren B. Wilcox University Lecturer in Gender Studies, Deputy Director of the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge, UK Dec. 09 “Body Counts: The Politics of Embodiment in Precision Warfare” International Studies Association Annual Conference "Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition” http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p501128_index.html

Bodies of terrorists.¶ In Discipline and Punish, … ‘accidental’ deaths of civilians who are killed as a result of the high-tech targeting of terrorists. 

Cis-privilege makes defeating terrorism impossible and ensures error replication - terrorism is an ineradicable excess PRODUCED by cis-privileged attempts to fit the world into Western sexual binaries
Puar and Rai 02
Jasbir K. Puar, Associate Professor oF WGSS at Rutgers, Amit Rai¶ Associate Professor oF WGSS at Rutgers, Amit Rai Senior Lecturer in New Media and Communication. Queen Mary University of London, “Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots”¶ Social Text, 72 (Volume 20, Number 3), Fall 2002, pp. 117-148 (Article)¶ Published by Duke University Press
Our contention is that today the knowledge and form of power ….Terrorism studies emerged as a subcategory within the social sciences in the early 1970s seeking to explain the resurgence of the seemingly inex- plicable.”20
Only foregrounding transgendered experience can produce valuable IR scholarship - transgendered bodies confound even the most determined attempts at disciplinary stability, and create a counter-weight to extension of presidential sovereignty
Shepherd and Sjoberg 12
 Laura J. Shepherd Laura J. Shepherd is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Social Sciences and International Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at the University of New South Wales,..and Laura Sjoberg University of Florida Department of Political Science JD Boston College, PhD in IR USC “trans- bodies in/of war(s): cisprivilege and contemporary security strategy” Feminist Review June 2012 google scholar                                                                                                                 We suggest that the invisibility of genderqueer bodies in security studies is a function of cisprivilege, but queer and feminist accounts of (how) gender matters in and to security studies enable us to begin thinking about how we might move towards … we think, a degree of cisprivilege inherent in the notion that the categories of ‘M’ and ‘F’ can be assumed stable. 

Contention 2: Normative Violence

Use of drones in targeting killings EXPECTS AND PRODUCES a world of dehumanized violence - static expectations about gender allow management and destruction of non-conforming bodies to produce social order
Wall and Monahan 11
Tyler Wall is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Eastern Kentucky University. ¶ Torin Monahan is Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Development and Associate Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University¶ Surveillance and violence from afar: The politics of drones and liminal security-scapes¶ August 2011¶ Theoretical Criminology 2011 15: 239 

Drone systems necessarily objectify, and most likely dehumanize, people targeted by ¶ them. …¶ which are encoded in both the institutional practices and technological systems of drone ¶ warfare.

The logic of targeted killing is an expression of violent bio-political control of the body. This orientation to the world is the root of nuclear war, violence, and genocide
Rabinow 84  Professor of Anthropology 84 (Paul, , Berkeley, THE FOUCAULT READER, , p. 260 KNP)
It is as managers of life and survival, of bodies …. exercised at the level of life, the species, the race, and the large-scale phenomena of population
How we see and relate to society in our everyday lives is a prior question to their impacts - pacification to a cis-privileged perspective primes the population for large-scale violence against non-conforming bodies - means we control the proximate cause of their impacts
Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois 4 (Prof of Anthropology @ Cal-Berkely; Prof of Anthropology @ UPenn)
(Nancy and Philippe, Introduction: Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22) 

This large and at first sight “messy” Part VII is central to this anthology’s thesis.… a reasonable response to Benjamin’s view of late modern history as a chronic “state of emergency” (Taussig, Chapter 31).
They can't win offense - cis-privileged IR makes targeting ONLY terrorists impossible because it relies on a gendered and violent concept of the civilian - only the aff re-conceptualization of IR attacks the root cause of violence
Wilcox 09
Lauren B. Wilcox University Lecturer in Gender Studies, Deputy Director of the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge, UK Dec. 09 “Body Counts: The Politics of Embodiment in Precision Warfare” Google scholar
In the discourse of precision warfare, the difficulty of distinguishing between civilians and combatants is presented as an epistemological problem … but rather the minimization of threat, rather than a serious effort at its elimination.
You should refuse state-based conceptions of IR - just as cis-privilege does unending violence to transgender bodies, realism robs agency from transnational entities, reproducing violent state power
Shepherd and Sjoberg 12                                                                                                                                                 Laura J. Shepherd Laura J. Shepherd is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Social Sciences and International Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at the University of New South Wales,..and Laura Sjoberg University of Florida Department of Political Science JD Boston College, PhD in IR USC “trans- bodies in/of war(s): cisprivilege and contemporary security strategy” Feminist Review June 2012                                                                                                                                    Second, and related to the above, we suggest that trans-/queer bodies are also rendered invisible, and cisprivilege reproduced, through the implicit or explicit historical treatment of those bodies as incidental, or, in the alternative, as trickery… as we do below, explores the ways in which security practices attempt to arrest gender ambiguity and delimit the intelligibility of gendered subjects in a similarly violent way.
Allowing us to continue perpetuating these sorts of Invisible normative violence are what enables us to cross the threshold into physical violence
Boestein 10
Jelke Professor King's College London, International Development Instituteonal, focus on sexual violence
‘Inequality, normative violence and livable life: Judith Butler and Peruvian Reality” 1st Quarter 2010 http://www.academia.edu/347285/Inequality_normative_violence_and_livable_life_Judith_Butler_and_Peruvian_Reality
¶ Normative violence and the ‘grievability’ of life¶ The concept ‘normative violence’ follows from Butler’s analysis of the power of norms to enable and¶ restrict life… Invisible violence is violence that is socially not understood as violence because of its normalization; it is tolerated and normalized because it is perpetrated in response to social transgressions.
Having investigated the ontological and genealogical underpinnings of targeted killings trough a lens of trans-theorizing, Joe and I Advocate that:
The United States Federal Government should statutorily and/or judicially restrict the war powers authority of the President of the United States to engage in targeted killings.

Contention 3: The Onto-political
Ontology comes first - adopting a cis-privileged lens for IR makes global justice impossible - vote aff to take a leap of faith and endorse transgender identity as a starting point for an alternative metric for reading global politics
Shepherd and Sjoberg 12
 Laura J. Shepherd Laura J. Shepherd is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Social Sciences and International Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at the University of New South Wales,..and Laura Sjoberg University of Florida Department of Political Science JD Boston College, PhD in IR USC “trans- bodies in/of war(s): cisprivilege and contemporary security strategy” Feminist Review June 2012 google scholar                                                                                                               We suggest that these are ontopolitical practices; …In tentative conclusion, we suggest that this might be a creative and constructive way forward that resists the dominant ontopolitical practices of security-as-matter and gender-as-binary, both of which bring into being a disguised and disfigured (corpo)reality of genderqueer and trans- bodies in/of war.
The impact is massive social violence - ontologizing cis-gendered bodies as a social norm enframes the world, eliminating all that is different - prior acceptance of ontology as a relevant question is the only possibility for opening space for ethical encounter with the Other
Burke, 7
(Anthony, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Sydney,  “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason”, Theory and Event, 10.2, Muse)

What I am trying to describe in this essay is a complex …in our dominant understandings of politics and war -- tragically violent 'choices' will continue to be made.

Specifically, you should prioritize material, embodied ontology - dominant IR departs from an  abstract, metaphysical perspective that ignores the difference produced by bodily performances - that's a pre-condition for solving WMD use and military escalation
Wilcox 09
Lauren B. Wilcox University Lecturer in Gender Studies, Deputy Director of the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge, UK “Body Counts: The Politics of Embodiment in Precision Warfare” Google scholar
Like the mainstream literature, much of the …killed either directly from the bombs or indirectly from the infrastructural damage that is a major purpose of military campaigns. These bodies are produced in mutual entanglement with the bodies of the precision bomber—these bodies do not exist on their own, but rather in inter-relation to each other. ¶