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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
11 reviews
valkyri_anna's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Colonisation, Violence, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault
the_reading_wren's review
5.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Transphobia, Colonisation, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Biphobia, Sexism, Outing, and Misogyny
Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Medical content, Genocide, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Slavery, War, Medical trauma, Racism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Torture, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness
arrr's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Transphobia, Rape, and War
Moderate: Sexual assault
noomzoom's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Sexual assault
zombiezami's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, Blood, Misogyny, Genocide, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Death, Religious bigotry, Child death, Murder, Colonisation, Sexual content, Transphobia, Torture, Child abuse, Hate crime, Racism, Medical content, Deadnaming, and Police brutality
Moderate: Infidelity, Infertility, Slavery, Confinement, Dysphoria, and Kidnapping
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Cursing, Lesbophobia, War, Biphobia, Adult/minor relationship, and Pedophilia
Eugenics, Intersexism, Incarcerationfrog_appreciator's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Transphobia, Racism, and Colonisation
Moderate: Torture and Sexual assault
lettuce_read's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Homophobia
Moderate: Hate crime and Ableism
kat_ml's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault
booksjessreads's review against another edition
5.0
Kit Heyam really brought trans history to life through this book. It was thoroughly researched and the most enlightening and significant part of the book, is that is focusses on a global perspective of trans history. I really liked their approach to this book since it was more holistic and offered a very intricate, nuanced and thorough analysis of trans history.Â
I literally have no words that could do this justice. I think the writing flowed well and was written in a respectful and reflective way. I listened to Kit read the audio and this made it an even better experience. However, the downside to this was there were so many facts that I wanted to write down and research, but as I often listen to my audio whilst travelling, I couldn't do that. I am going to get my hands on a physical copy so that when I re-read, I can go back through and take my time with their work.
Graphic: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Sexual assault
nadia's review against another edition
3.25
I was hoping for much more of a structured argument that introduced the case studies as a means to support points made, as opposed to them being used as a range of examples of the experiences of trans people throughout history. Because of the way the book jumped around in history, having finished it a couple days ago, I'm left with rough memories of snatches of stories, but the details and timeline are all jumbled up in my head. I'm also left with a few high-level points of how we might want to think about trans history going forward, but was hoping to have taken away a more solid thesis.
Still, if you're interested in learning more about trans history, I'd class this as a must-read! My rating mainly reflects how my personal enjoyment was hampered by mismatched expectations!
(I also skipped a few minutes towards the end [around the 97% mark] after Heyam says: "At the climax of [Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness]..." — a book I've wanted to read for a long time. I don't know how spoiler-y this comment ended up being but I'm not a fan of fictional novel plot points being referenced in nonfiction/academic work in general and will do my best to avoid them in case!)
Graphic: Sexual assault and Transphobia