Mackenzie, Lars2019-05-132019-05-132019-03https://hdl.handle.net/11299/202920University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. March 2019. Major: American Studies. Advisors: Jigna Desai, Aren Aizura. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 324 pages.This dissertation explores how fraudulence shapes contemporary trans life. It examines the impacts of software design, law, and policy on trans and gender non-conforming people, arguing that social expectations about the stability of sex, gender, and identity systematically devalue the lives of trans and gender non-conforming people with particularly harmful impacts in the financial and healthcare sectors. Further, it demonstrates that incongruent or gender non-conforming data wields significant and dangerous power in an era of data-driven decision-making and present alternative approaches towards challenging these paradigms.encreditdatahealthcareidentitylawtransThesis or Dissertation