The emergence of trans : cultures, politics and everyday lives

This book represents the vanguard of new work in the rapidly growing arena of Trans Studies. Thematically organised, it brings together studies from an international, cross-disciplinary range of contributors to address a range of questions pertinent to the emergence of trans lives and discourses. Examining the ways in which the emergence of trans challenges, develops and extends understandings of gender and reconfigures everyday lives, it asks how trans lives and discourses articulate and contest with issues of rights, education and popular common-sense. With attention to the question of how trans has shaped and been shaped by new modes of social action and networking, __The Emergence of Trans__ also explores what the proliferation of trans representation across multiple media forms and public discourse suggests about the wider cultural moment, and considers the challenges presented for health care, social policy, gender and sexuality theory, and everyday articulations of identity. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of gender and sexuality studies, as well as activists, professionals and individuals interested in trans lives and discourses. This book represents the vanguard of new work in the rapidly growing arena of Trans Studies. Thematically organised, it brings together studies from an international, cross-disciplinary range of contributors to address a range of questions pertinent to the emergence of trans lives and discourses. Examining the ways in which the emergence of trans challenges, develops and extends understandings of gender and reconfigures everyday lives, it asks how trans lives and discourses articulate and contest with issues of rights, education and popular common-sense. With attention to the question of how trans has shaped and been shaped by new modes of social action and networking, The Emergence of Trans also explores what the proliferation of trans representation across multiple media forms and public discourse suggests about the wider cultural moment, and considers the challenges presented for health care, social policy, gender and sexuality theory, and everyday articulations of identity. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of gender and sexuality studies, as well as activists, professionals and individuals interested in trans lives and discourses. Cover 1 Half Title 4 Series 5 Title 6 Copyright 7 Dedication 8 Contents 10 Contributor biographies 12 Acknowledgements 16 Introduction: the many-voiced monster: collective determination and the emergence of trans 18 Part I Trans genealogies 30 1 In the shadow of eugenics: transgender sterilisation legislation and the struggle for self-determination 34 2 Reconceiving the body: a surgical genealogy of trans- therapeutics 51 3 Becoming: discourses of trans emergence, epiphanies and oppositions 63 4 the seam of skin and scales 77 Part II Trans as everyday culture 80 5 Creating a trans space 82 6 DIY identities in a DIY scene: trans music events in the UK 85 7 On being a ‘wife’: cis women negotiating relationships with a trans partner 102 8 Sticks and stones break our bones, and words are damaging: how language erases non-binary people 120 Part III Trans in popular representation 134 9 Response and responsibility: mainstream media and Lucy Meadows in a post-Leveson context 136 10 ‘Girl brain . . . boy body’: representations of trans characters in children’s picture books 152 Part IV Trans epistemologies 168 11 Make yourself 170 12 Co-producing trans ethical research 182 13 Nonnormative ethics: the ensouled formation of trans 196 14 A genealogy of genealogies – retheorising gender and sexuality: the emergence of ‘trans’ (ESRC seminar series 2012–2014) 209 Index 222