Recent antitrans discourses have critiqued trans masculinity in particular as a site of social panic and contagion for proto-trans adolescents. In extreme cases, this is framed as a seduction. Turning “seduction” from a social danger to a benefit, this essay theorizes masc4masc t4t erotics as a type of contagious gendering. The authors discuss the coming…
Four Case studies. Transvestism is defined by Kinsey as behaviour by ‘an individual who prefers to wear the clothes of the opposite sex and who desires to be accepted in the social organization as an individual of the opposite sex’. Transsexualism refers to those cases where in addition the urge exists to undergo a sex-conversion…
Short biography of Eugen Steinach, who wrote “Physiology of the Male Sex Organs” and other works on sex glands and organs.
“Philadelphia steelworker tells intimate story of how he was reared by Georgia Black, the man who lived as a woman for 30 years in Florida.” Describes Willie Sabb’s mother, Georgia Black, a trans woman featured in Black on Both Sides (Snorton) and Before Gender (Erlick). This PDF is the full issue. The article is featured…
The psychotherapy conducted under LSD intoxication included 12 homosexual males (6 ephebophilic and 6 androphilic subjects) and 6 transsexual females. The transsexual females were non-neurotic and no traumatism was found in their sociopsychic sphere. Despite their excellent co-operation the therapy revealed an absolute hopelessness of adaptation of their socio-sexual orientation. LSD was rather inclined to…
Abstract: In this article I write on the rift between trans inclusive and gender critical feminists in the UK. I consider this division within university culture through a focus on the case of Kathleen Stock. I discuss the coverage of her resignation from the University of Sussex through a focus on The Daily Telegraph. From…
In the inaugural issue of TSQ, “Postposttransexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” Iain Morland (2014) provides a nuanced genealogy of “intersex.” He notes that the term has a range of definitions, even in clinical contexts. Often popularly conflated with ambiguous genitalia—“external sexual anatomy that cannot be easily described as entirely female or male”—an…
This is a paper I wrote but, never got to submit to the Sociology book Award for my local college
Repudiations of trans-exclusionary radical feminism often take the form of a call to strip from TERFs the name feminist. TERFism, it is often argued, is not “real feminism,” and in this same vein it is sometimes argued that lesbian exponents of transmisogyny are not a “real” part of queer history. Asa Seresin and Sophie Lewis—both…
A study of the work and career of psychoanalyst and researcher Robert J Stoller, an early and brilliant observer of the dynamics of gender identity (a term he invented) and sexual dynamics and perversion.