Decoding Digital Denmark: Assessing the State of Algorithmic Violence and Trans (Un)Liveability in Denmark

What does it imply to digitalise a state, who stands to benefit and at the expense of whom? Zooming in on the digital Danish state, what if digitalisation made life easier and effortless for cisgender people while making life more difficult and hostile for trans people by hindering their liveability and citizenship through deleting their medical journals, inviting them for the wrong medical tests, blocking them from their bank accounts, denying them access to digital state welfare services and digitally excluding their identities? Despite these ramifications for trans people, existing scholarship only meagerly analyses the complex entangled relationship between transness, colonial and cisnormative legacies, algorithmic systems and nation states with none of them investigating and mapping the digital case of Denmark. In this paper, I assess the state of algorithmic violence and trans (un)liveability underlying and produced by the digitalisation of Denmark, where I argue that Denmark acts as a state extension of algorithmic violence that forces trans people to exist in a precarious state of digital and material unliveability. Based on this, I present three aspects of my preliminary findings which include (1) Healthcare: Digital medical erasure, (2) Bank & Payments: Digital blocking, and (3) MitID & Data: Digital exclusion and glitches, that uncover the concerningly violent, oppressive and ominous conditions of living for trans people in digital Denmark.