A groundbreaking survey on gender development and identity-making among America's transsexual women, transsexual men, cross-dressers and gender-queer individual

"I didn't hear the word transgender until I was eighteen, when a person I was dating came out as trans. My boyfriend came out as my girlfriend, and I thought, '

This book examines transgendered people in their everyday lives and how they are erased in a variety of institutional and cultural settings. Additionally, diffi

Transgender survivors of violence tell their stories Transgender people face some of the highest rates of violence in the US and around the world, particularly

This book represents the vanguard of new work in the rapidly growing arena of Trans Studies. Thematically organised, it brings together studies from an internat