Shon Faye - The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
Shon Faye - The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
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A landmark book that signals the
beginning of a new, healthier conversation about trans life.
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than one per cent of the country's population, they are 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.
In this powerful new book, The Transgender Issue,
Shon Faye reclaims the idea of the 'transgender issue' to uncover the reality
of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society. In doing so, she
provides a compelling, wide-ranging analysis of trans lives from youth to old
age, exploring work, family, housing, healthcare, the prison system and trans
participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, in contemporary Britain
and beyond. It is a manifesto for change, and a call for justice and solidarity
between all marginalized people and minorities. Trans liberation, as Faye sees
it, goes to the root of what our society is and what it could be; it offers the
possibility of a more just, free and joyful world for all of us.
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