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In this brilliant introduction to trans politics, journalist Shon Faye gives an incisive overview of systemic transphobia and argues that the struggle for trans rights is necessary to any struggle for social justice.
So often, Faye argues, trans people are understood as a “side issue,” the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized debate which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which trans people themselves are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful voice.
With skill, rigor, and heart, Faye uncovers the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society. In this compellingly readable study, she explores issues of class, family, housing, healthcare, sex work, the prison system, and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities. What she finds, ultimately, is that when we fight for trans liberation, we fight for a better world for us all.
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September 13, 2022 -
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- ISBN: 9781839768385
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- ISBN: 9781839768385
- File size: 334 KB
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- English
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September 1, 2022
There is good news and bad news about Faye's book. The good news first: being a transgender woman, the author brings rare insight, authority, and comprehensive attention to her compelling subject. The bad news is that the book's setting is the UK; hence, not all of its content is directly relevant to the U.S. For example: it focuses on health-care barriers in the UK's National Health Service; also, many of the statistics it cites are obviously not applicable. On the other hand, some of the issues Faye addresses are directly relevant to U.S. readers: for example: "Britain is in the midst of a heated national conversation about the 'issue' of transgender people." Welcome to America! Happily, Faye writes with admirable clarity, and, accordingly, her book is accessible to general readers, her intended audience. It sheds essential light on a subject that is widely misunderstood--driven, unfortunately, by too many people's ignorance, which, one hopes, this volume will help correct. If nothing else, it offers an essential truth: "A trans person is just a person. We are simply trying to live."COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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