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Drawing upon Jean Laplanche's thinking around afterwardness as translation, this article is an attempt to consider some temporal rhetorics conditioning contemporary possibilities for transgender, genderqueer and transsexual self-representation. It will look particularly to aesthetic problems of inscription, for instance texts figuring a wish for antecedents/ancestors (such as the Greek seer, Tiresias), as well as at the deferred action of fantasies underpinning early psychoanalytic interpretation of cross sex identification ('the Schreber case') and consider how such readings or fantasies might affect, even organize, contemporary sexual minority identities and relations. Further it will bring these questions into relation with the effacement of recent transsexual cultural production and activism at the transgender 'tipping point' while attempting to disinter and make available for re-translation subalterned histories and possibilities occluded by, if haunting, a century of psychoanalytic, feminist and queer progress.

Abstract
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.

This narrative essay reflects upon experiences at the Toronto Women's Bathhouse to think about asymmetrical conditions of trans inclusion in lesbian erotic and cultural spaces. It queries the affective disjunctures between formal policies of trans-inclusion in women's spaces and "on the ground" interpersonal recognition of trans women as women and of trans men as men. Résumé Cet étude narrative se penche sur les expériences à la Women's Bathhouse de Toronto, pour penser aux conditions asymétriques de l'inclusion trans dans les sites culturels lesbiens érotiques. Elle questionne les disjonctions affectives entre les politiques formelles de l'inclusion trans dans les sites de femmes à raison de la reconnaissance inter personnelle de femmes trans en tant que femmes et d'hommes trans en tant qu'hommes.