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"Each title in the Unlocking Current Issues series presents the evolution of a salient current issue, with a focus on providing historical evidence of key moments in the development of the issue through excerpts of primary documents and contextual information, and a clear summary of positions. This volume focuses on transgender life"--

Religious beliefs and transgender support can go hand-in-hand / William Galo and Tina Trinh -- Transgender people in chosen restrooms : there's nothing to fear but fear itself / Dara Hoffman-Fox -- Obama rebuke of bathroom bill did not go far enough / Tom Carter -- Obamacare a gift for those planning gender reassignment surgery / Anna Gorman -- Will fairness be impacted by transgender people in sports competition? / Katharina Lindner -- Hate crime laws must go farther to protect transgender individuals / Victoria Law -- Transgender rights are human rights / Human Rights Campaign -- How about educating everyone in school about transgender rights? / Brenda Alvarez -- Transgender employees must be treated with dignity and respect / United States Office of Personnel Management -- Equal opportunity in the military must include transgender servicepeople / Ash Carter -- Allowing trans people to serve openly in military opens bad can of worms / Elaine Donnelly -- Gender identity limiting transgender vote ? but not due to discrimination / German Lopez -- Must it take death of transgender prisoner to wake up system? / Samantha Pegg

"Transgenderism in the twenty-first century is patriarchy emblazoned in imperial form. At a time when supposedly enlightened attitudes are championed by the mainstream, philosopher and activist Heather Brunskell-Evans shows how, in plain view under the guise of liberalism, a regressive men's rights movement is posing a massive threat to the human rights of women and children everywhere. This movement is transgender politics which, while spouting platitudes about equality, is in reality colonising and erasing the bodies, agency and autonomy of women and children, while asserting men's rights to bodily intrusion into every social and personal space. The transgender agenda redefines diversity and inclusion utilising the language of victimhood. In a complete reversal of feminist gender critical analyses, sex and gender are redefined: identity is now called 'innate' (a 'feeling' located somewhere in the body) and biological sex is said to be socially constructed (and hence changeable). This ensures a lifetime of drug dependency for transitioners, thereby delivering vast profits for Big Pharma in a capitalist dream. Everyone, including every trans person, has the right to live freely without discrimination. But the transgender movement has been hijacked by misogynists who are appropriating and inverting the struggles of feminism to deliver an agenda devoid of feminist principles. In a chilling twist, when feminists critique the patriarchal status quo it is now they who are alleged to be extremists for not allowing men's interests to control the political narrative. Institutions whose purpose is to defend human rights now interpret truth speech as hate speech, and endorse the no-platforming of women as ethical." --

part 1. Overview -- What does it mean to be transgender? -- A brief history of transgender people -- Transitioning -- Physical health -- Mental health -- part 2. Controversies and issues -- Discrimination against transgender people -- Access to health and social services and public facilities -- Transgender athletes: who competes against whom? -- Normative gender dichotomies and alternatives -- Parenting and family issues -- Research issues -- part 3. Scenarios

"While efforts to include gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport have received significant attention, it is only recently that we have begun examining the experiences of transgender athletes in competitive sport. This book represents the first comprehensive study of the challenges that transgender athletes face in competitive sport; and the challenges they pose for this sex-segregated institution. Beginning with a discussion of the historical role that sport has played in preserving sex as a binary, the book examines how gender has been policed by policymakers within competitive athletics. It also considers how transgender athletes are treated by a system predicated on separating males from females, consequently forcing transgender athletes to negotiate the system in coercive ways. The book not only exposes our culture's binary thinking in terms of both sex and gender, but also offers a series of thought-provoking and sometimes contradictory recommendations for how to make sport more hospitable, inclusive and equitable. Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport is important reading for all students and scholars of the sociology of sport with an interest in the relationship between sport and gender, politics, identity and ethics" --