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"This manuscript productively joins affect theory and trans studies to examine how narratives around gender transition actually reinforce racial and gender hegemonies. Malatino notes that trans structures of feeling are ofted coded as negative, on both sides of the transition... When a trans person wants to transition, discourses around negativity, such as childhood trauma and the 'wrong body'. Post-transition, the lives of trans people, especially trans people of color, are seen as victims of a violent society. Malatino's manuscript works slowly through the negative affect that so often shapes trans lives to consider its productive dimensions, where negativity is key to enabling trans survival and flourishing."--

Introduction: to the reader -- Before identity: the ancient world through the 19th century -- Sexology -- Toward liberation -- Queer normalization and beyond -- Nature, nurture, and identity -- Queer diversities -- Intersectionalities -- Queer literatures -- Visual and performing arts -- Film and television -- Queers and the Internet -- Queer cultures

This book argues that mainstream popular culture has failed to provide multi-dimensional representations of transgender people. To contrast, it illustrates how the work of trans masculine YouTube vloggers helps audiences unlearn such binary narratives of sexual identity through fostering awareness, empathy, and compassion.

"Letters for my sisters is an anthology of collected wisdom by and for transgender women. This groundbreaking collection of letters tells raw, heartfelt stories of childhood, transitioning, and becoming women in a world where acceptance is sometimes elusive and costly. Brave, boldly vulnerable and revealing, this collection adds to a growing body of literature where trans people tell their own stories as they lived them. Each writer addresses one simple question: If you could write just one letter to someone beginning transition, or to your younger pre-transition self, what would you say? Would you reassure or warn them, or lay your life out in vivid detail for them to draw their own conclusions? Would you have a secret to tell, a hard-won truth or an unexpected triumph to share?"--Page 4 of cover

Introduction -- The stakes in sex: obstacles and opportunities in legal reform for trans persons -- X' Why? Gender Markers and Non-Binary Transgender People. PART I: The strong medicalization model -- Gender Identity and the LGBT Movement in Brazil -- The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons in the Republic of Croatia -- The Civil Status of Trans Persons in the Czech Republic -- Reassignment (change) of sex in Poland – the case law phenomenon in a civil law country -- Conditions for the Recognition of the Civil Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons under the Romanian Legal System -- Gender Identity, National Identity and the Right of Self- Determination ~A Peculiar Case of Taiwan -- Conditions Of The Recognition Of The Civil Status Of Transsexual And Transgender Persons In Turkey -- PART II: The soft medicalization model -- Conditions of the recognition of the civil status of transsexual and transgender persons in Austria -- Trans persons in Belgium -- The Civil Status of Transgender and Transsexual Persons in England -- Trans rights in Germany -- The protection of trans rights in Israel -- PART III: Self- determination in the registration of sex -- Argentina, transgender and the development of a human rights discourse -- La Reconnaissance Des Droits Des Personnes Trans Au Canada -- Gender Identity, Human Dignity and Self-Determination in Chile -- The recognition of sexual identity as a source of harm in Colombian Constitutional Law -- Conditions of the recognition of the civil status of transsexual and transgender people Denmark -- The Recognition of the Civil Status of Transgender People in Greece -- The Law Concerning Transgender and Transsexual Persons in Ireland -- Recognition of the civil status of transgender people in Norwegian law -- The Paradox of Transgender Law in Sweden -- Perspectives on History, Medicine, Law, and Regulations for Transgender Persons in the United States.

"'What did you have? A boy or a girl?' Kyl and Brent imagined it would be years before their child would identify with a gender. Until then... As a first-time parent, Kyl Myers had one aspect dialed in from the start: not being beholden to the boy-girl binary, disparities, or stereotypes from the day a child is born. With no wish to eliminate gender but rather gender discrimination, Kyl and her husband, Brent, ventured off on a parenting path less traveled. Raising a confident, compassionate, and self-aware person was all that mattered. In this illuminating memoir, Kyl delivers a liberating portrait of a family's choice to dismantle the long-accepted and often-harmful social construct of what it means to be assigned a gender from birth. As a sociologist, Kyl explores the science of gender and sex and the adulthood gender inequities that start in childhood. As a loving parent, Kyl shares the joy of watching an amazing child named Zoomer develop their own agency to grow happily and healthily toward their own gender identity and expression. Candid and surprising, Raising Them is an inspiration to parents and to anyone open to understanding the limitless possibilities of being yourself." --

'Kiss my genders' celebrates the work of more than 20 international artists whose practices explore and engage with gender fluidity, as well as non-binary, trans and intersex identities. Published alongside an exhibition, the book features works from the late 1960s and early 1970s through to the present, and focuses on artists who draw on their own experiences to create content and forms that challenge accepted or stable definitions of gender. Working across painting, immersive installations, sculpture, text, photography and film, many of these artists treat the body as a sculpture, and in doing so open up new possibilities for gender, beauty, and representations of the human form. The publication includes texts from writers, theorists, curators, poets and artists who have made key contributions to thinking in the field. From pop culture and gender dissidence to the embrace of the 'monstrous' or 'freaky', from the politics of prose to transfeminism and politics on the street, each of these writers throws light on a different way of seeing. Also featured is a round-table discussion between a selection of artists and exhibition curator Vincent Honoré

Mapping the Identity: Historical perspective of Transgender persons -- Understanding Transgender persons -- Establishing Identity-'Coming out ' and 'transitioning' -- Living on the Extreme Margin: Social Exclusion & Discrimination of the Transgender persons -- Clan culture- Religion, Rituals and Emasculation -- Interventions required -- From Visibly invisible to Visibility: Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 and Rules -- Changing scenario-progressive stories.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. "She's Just Who She Is": Identifying the Transgender Child -- 2. "Our World Has Been Rocked": Gender and Sexuality -- 3. "Picking the 'Other Box' ": Troubling the (Non)Binary -- 4. "A Regular, Normal Childhood": Privacy, Protection, and Medical Interventions -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix I. Participant Reference Chart -- Appendix II. Methods, Ethics, Politics -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

What is gender? Is gender changeable? Does gender always match up with one's sexuality or outward appearance? These are questions at the forefront of contemporary debates for increased rights for trans men, trans women, and others who do not conform to our society's gender norms. Students will read the experiences of gender non-conforming individuals-as well as court decisions related to recent legal cases and media coverage-in order to better understand the challenges they face today

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1: What is Gender Identity? -- Chapter 2: Forms of Being Transgender -- Chapter 3: Living as Transgender -- Chapter 4: Finding Support -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover