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Societies around the world are struggling to think clearly about trans realities and understand trans identities. Real Gender is the first book to present a cis defence of what it means to be transgender. Moyal-Sharrock and Sandis delve into the various factors which make many trans people’s experience of their gender (or lack thereof) as natural and unquestionable as that of cis people. While recognising the undeniably social aspects of gender, they find that gender cannot be completely divorced from our biological underpinnings. Contrary to popular opinion, gender self-identification does not require the denial of either biology or sex. What is needed is a more liberal understanding of our gender concepts, which would prevent us from confusing diversity with pathology. Steeped in published and personal trans testimonials, Real Gender does not seek to provoke or attack, but to unequivocally defend trans realities. A powerful exploration of a divisive topic, this book will be of interest to a wide audience of readers.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Transgender people --- Gender identity --- Gender nonconformity

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This Element analyzes the foundational frame of legal reasoning when courts interpret the 'plain language' and 'ordinary meaning' of terms such as 'sex', 'man' and 'woman'. There is a rich and complicated line of cases on how to define these terms and how to legally categorize transgender people. When dealing with different legal issues, judges need to give a clear 'yes' or 'no', determinate answer to a legal question. Marginal categorizations could be problematic even for experts. It analyses nine decisions that relate to transgender people's workplace protection under Title VII in United States and the right to marry in United Kingdom and Hong Kong. It brings in a historical discussion of the development of interpretative practices of law and legal categorization of transgender individuals across past decades, drawing on the intricate relationship between time and statutory interpretation.

Transgender people --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Transgenres --- Comparative law --- Droit comparé --- Droit --- Sex and law.

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"Atmospheres of Violence is a study of the forms of violence levied against trans/queer and gender nonconforming people in the United States. While the recent past, roughly from the Stonewall uprisings of 1969 to the present, is usually narrated as a time of LGBT equality, with the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the expansion of hate crimes legislation, and marriage equality, during this same period there has been an escalation in murders of trans women, particularly those who are Black and Brown. It is within this contradiction, which Eric A. Stanley argues is a structuring antagonism, that Atmospheres of Violence dwells. Rather than suggesting that such violence is evidence of individual phobias, Stanley asserts that the consistency of such harms points to a much larger structure of our social world. Atmospheres of Violence offers a theory of anti-trans/queer violence that works to unsettle the individual actor and offers an analysis, built through a motley archive of suicide notes, AIDS activist histories, surveillance tapes, prison interviews, and other ephemera of attack, that situates these forms of violence as central to, and not an aberration from, liberal democracy"--

Transgender people --- Gender-nonconforming people --- African American transgender people --- Minority transgender women --- Transphobia --- Homophobia --- Violence against --- Minorities --- Political aspects --- Social problems --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- United States of America

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"Simonetto theorizes how trans bodies were shaped and understood in Argentina from the modern definition of sex at the end of the nineteenth century to the passing of Gender Identity Law in 2012. This project analyzes the process and history of sex change in Argentina during the twentieth century. By using sex change as a category of historical analysis, it is possible to consider the multiple layers, including both popular and medical discourses, with which people understood and experienced body transformation and the wide range of techniques with which they materialized their gendered bodies"--

Gender transition --- Transgender people --- Gender identity --- History --- Political activity --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Political aspects --- Law and legislation --- Social conditions --- Argentina --- Politics and government --- History.

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In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order -- relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters. In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down this lost highway, exploring the way that trans people and transness have evolved on-screen. Starting from the very earliest representations of transness in silent film, through to the multiplex-conquering Matrix franchise and on to the emergence of a true trans-authored cinema, Corpses, Fools and Monsters spans everything from musicals to body horror to avant garde experimental film to tell the story of the trans film image. In doing so, the authors investigate the wider history of trans representation -- an exhilarating journey of compromise, recuperation, and potential liberation that they argue is only just the beginning.

Transgender people in motion pictures --- Gender nonconformity --- Transgender men --- Transgender women --- Transsexuals in motion pictures --- Sex role in motion pictures --- In motion pictures --- In motion pictures --- In motion pictures