I mean , broadly speaking , the state itself is entrenched in cisheterosupremacy through its historical reliance on its population ' s reproductive capacity as a mechanism of selfsustenance . For example , the first laws used to prohibit trans folks ' access to reconstructive genital surgery or even just to orchiectomies ! were mayhem laws that were intended to prohibit intentionally harming someone in order to prevent them from being conscripted into the militarydrafted . Whatever you feel about postmodernism , Foucault has some insightful thoughts on biopolitics that discuss how bodies more generally are regulated in the interest of the stateI ' d recommend looking into that if you ' re interested . And free markets have always been tools of structural violence . The limits of human rationality in economics and policymaking are fairly wellunderstood even if they haven ' t been mapped precisely . And anyway , an economic system that makes it POSSIBLE for those systemic biases to play out must itself be implicated in the process of fighting back against bigotry and socially acceptable violence .