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A tapestry of transphobia

Trans liberation's challenge to feminist politics
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June 2022, no. 443

The Transgender Issue: An argument for justice by Shon Faye

Allen Lane, $35 pb, 320 pp

A tapestry of transphobia

Trans liberation's challenge to feminist politics
by
June 2022, no. 443

Shon Faye, trained as a lawyer before moving into advocacy work, brings her multi-disciplinary background into an unflinching look at where trans people in the United Kingdom are now, what lead them here, and where we go next. Consciously forgoing memoir, Faye takes a systematic approach to learning from history, clearly laying out the case for trans liberation.

In the opening pages, we learn of the suicide of Lucy Meadows, a young teacher and a trans woman. As Faye unpicks the immediate and circumstantial paths that lead to this event, we glimpse a tapestry of transphobia that, by the conclusion, is thoroughly unravelled. The introduction presents a litany of trans people (both alive and dead) bearing the brunt of endless scrutiny. The next seven chapters give voice to the conditions faced by trans people, and how we might glimpse liberation through the muck of a transphobic society.

Elizabeth Duck-Chong reviews 'The Transgender Issue: An argument for justice' by Shon Faye

The Transgender Issue: An argument for justice

by Shon Faye

Allen Lane, $35 pb, 320 pp

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