Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities

Also seduced me from the new non-fiction section of the library.

I'd been reading some radical feminism critiques of transgender issues online lately that were pissing me off, but also made me realize how little of my gender and orientation reading was about trans-identities, compared to LGB, or especially I. I'd applied a lot of what I'd learned reading about intersex conditions/identities to transgender issues, but how well did that really fit?

Enter Schultz's timely oral history collection. The diversity of voices collected here is really admirable, and was exactly what I was looking for. There are a lot of celebrity transfolk (especially MTW) biographies grabbing press today, but that reality is just such a small fragment of the show more spectrum of experience.

I especially appreciated and got woke by the sections on intersectionality, on how trans-identity is affected by race, gender, disability, medical issues, culture, class, etc.

I wanted to find all of these people and hug them.

A very useful and important book. Very difficult to put down. show less

Very enlightening look at the variety of people that can be found in the transgender community. Can get confusing at times, since there is often not entire agreement on gender terms from region to region or across ethnicities. The strength of this book is that it is based on individual experiences of transgender people.