ion. Rawlsimagines a private realm in which different forms of life co-exist as lifestyles,there is no contest among them. None feels threatened by the existence of theother. None maintains itself at the cost of the other's existence.6 But in polit-ical life spaces of plurality and difference are often closed by the sedimenta-tion or naturalization of a dominant culture's form of life: Its own particularvision of gender identities becomes a standard by which all men and womenare measured. Its family structures become a norm of health and safety. Itsattitudes toward work and leisure become moralized. Its approved directionsof sexuality are touted as natural, not contingent, and deviations from themare treated accordingly, as curiosities, evils, or illnesses. Without the resourcesof politicization, those who deviate from these norms find that their rights areprotected in Rawls' regime but that they themselves are (at best) disrespected.Rawls does not address this ineq