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Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker

9 reviews

kass_e_'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

The only reason I took off a quarter star is because the book could already use a 3rd edition. I definitely recommend reading this edition over the 1st if you can. A few things were said about non-binary identities I didn’t exactly agree with. Probably two sentences out of the entire book that is otherwise a very moving experience to read as a young trans person. I wanted to better understand my place in the world and the people and events that came before me and now I feel that I have. It’s a humbling reading experience, personally anyways. I’d recommend this to any queer or trans person especially but really anyone who just wanted to get a trans historian’s history of trans people in America.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexism, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Religious bigotry, Outing, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Biphobia, Deadnaming, Death, Police brutality, Medical content, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual content

All of the “graphic” tags are in the context of “historian telling you events that happened and the causes and consequences of them “. They can still be disturbing. The chapter “The Difficult Decades” (referring to the 70s and 80s)was notably a hard one for me due to descriptions of transphobia, transmisogyny, HIV, and death. Also none of these tags are perpetrated by the author to my knowledge, only ever described.

ignatzv's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Transgender History compiles the history of transgender identities as well as the importance of including transgender people in modern-day activism. This was my first experience with feminist/queer literature, and I really have not looked back since. This book introduced me to a wonderful movement and complex history that means a lot to me even today. Since the latest addition was released in 2017, it could be somewhat outdated, but I still think it is a good introduction if you want to learn more about trans history.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Hate crime, Homophobia, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, and Dysphoria

maggieparedesauthor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

This book read more like a high school textbook so I struggled to get through parts of it, but the resources (websites, laws, etc) mentioned were vital for me to know about. Also, there were many incidents and law cases that were shared in this book that I didn’t know about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

cogowno's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

arinheck's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Deadnaming, Hate crime, Sexism, Violence, and Medical content

purplepenning's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

Read during the #TransRightsReadathon. A good overview, updated in 2017, of trans history from the 1950s on. It focuses on human rights and social justice in historical social context, but does include some scientific/medical history as well. The glossary at the beginning is useful, but be advised, as the author points out, that language can change rapidly, so it should be a starting point and guide to understanding the terminology used in the book rather than a definitive source for current usage.     

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Confinement, Deadnaming, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

Minor: Deadnaming and Suicide attempt

arsenic_'s review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Outing

solly's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

This is my hundredth book of the year!! I started it sooo long ago, I take so long to read non-fiction physical books!

It was excellent though, I learnt some stuff, realized TERFs have been using the same tired arguments for way longer than I thought, and it deepened my pride and determination as a queer activist and LGBT+ centre volunteer. I WISH there were queer history books about French queer history but I can't really find any, so I'll read all the US and UK one instead.

Overall excellent and informative, but the first 40-pages chapter full of definitions made me put it down for a while. It's also very academic so not a *good* time or *fun* time but it's full of information. I knew about a decent number of events mentionned because of assignements I did on US queer history but I still learnt stuff especially since I'm young and it's not my country's politics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Transphobia

ashheinrich's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Biphobia, Deadnaming, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Medical trauma