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What does it mean for someone to be 'trans'? What are the implications of this for healthcare provision? Drawing on the findings of an extensive research project, this book addresses urgent challenges and debates in trans health. It interweaves patient voices with social theory and autobiography, offering an innovative look at how shifting language, patient mistrust, waiting lists and professional power shape clinical encounters, and exploring what a better future might look like for trans patients

This book provides tools and frameworks for building a culture of appreciation, understanding character strengths, mapping leadership qualities, understanding learning styles, identifying team roles, and executing plans.

This article proposes that survival may be considered a research method for social researchers, especially if they are undertaking fieldwork within marginalised communities of which they are a part. Drawing on an autoethnographic account of conducting research while trans, it shows how marginalised researchers may encounter both challenges common within the neoliberal university, and troubles specific to the researcher's social identity, touching on experiences of casualisation, distressing fieldwork, trauma, and suicide. The article concludes that marginalised researchers should not be held individually responsible for their own survival; rather, they require the active support of research communities and institutional frameworks.

Introduction: the many-voiced monster : collective determination and the emergence of trans / Ruth Pearce, Kat Gupta and Igi Moon -- Trans genealogies -- In the shadow of eugenics : transgender sterilization legislation and the struggle for self-determination / Julian Honkasalo -- Reconceiving the body : a surgical genealogy of trans-therapeutics / Eric Plemons -- Becoming: discourses of trans emergence, epiphanies and oppositions / Natacha Kennedy -- The seam of skin and scales / Elena Rose -- Trans as everyday culture -- Creating a trans space / Kat Gupta -- Diy identities in a diy scene : trans music events in the UK / Kirsty Lohman and Ruth Pearce -- On being a "wife" : CIS women negotiating relationships with a trans partner / Clare Beckett-Wrighton -- Sticks and stones break our bones, and words are damaging : how language erases non-binary people / Stef M. Shuster and Ellen Lamont -- Trans in popular representation -- Response and responsibility : mainstream media and Lucy Meadows in a post-Leveson context / Kat Gupta -- "Girl brain-boy body" : representations of trans characters in children's picture books / Clare Bartholomaeus and Damien W. Riggs -- Trans epistemologies -- Make yourself / Rami Yasir -- Co-producing trans ethical research / Rhi Humphrey, Bròna Nic Giolla Easpaid and Rachael Fox -- Nonnormative ethics : the ensouled formation of trans / Mijke van der Drift -- A genealogy of genealogies : retheorising gender and sexuality : the emergence of "trans" (ESRC seminar series 2012-2014) / Igi Moon -- Index.