My name is Rhyannon, and I’m an addict. In 2012, Rhyannon Styles began her gender transition, and attended her first 12-Step meeting – beginning two journeys which changed the course of her life. Using her personal narrative as a springboard for exploring addiction, recovery and LGBTQ+ mental health, Rhyannon writes with searing honesty about the…
Hijra, the iconic figure of South Asian gender and sexual difference, comprise a publicly institutionalised subculture of male-bodied feminine-identified people. Although they have existed as a culturally recognised third gender for a very long time, it is only recently that hijra have been legally recognised as a third gender in several South Asian countries. This…
On Friday, September 16 2017, 21-year old Scout Schultz was shot and killed by police at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Scout was active in campus LGBT groups and identified as intersex. Scout was a part of local organized antifascist initiatives and was an anarchist. When news spread of their death, friends, family, and classmates…
This book is for the folks who thought transition would never be an option for them. For the ones who have been told they aren’t trans enough. For the rural Southern trans kids who feel like they are alone in this world. This book is for all the trans and gender expansive Southerners who insist…
Background/Objectives: This article seeks to examine how gender and sexual identities shape sex work experiences among men, two spirit, and/or trans people in Vancouver. Methods: In-depth, semistructured interviews were conducted with men and trans people in Metro Vancouver from Community Health Assessment of Men Who Purchase and Sell Sex. An intersectional critical feminist perspective guided…
Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s. Andrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces – including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons – facilitated…
Objective. To provide a bibliometric and contents analyses of the Spanish research in the field of gender dysphoria based on a literature review. Method. Five international and four national databases, and two platforms were used to retrieve publications using the keyword “gender dysphoria” and related terms. The results were combined with Spain and with the…
Homo Economics is the first honest account of the tense relationship between gay people and the economy. This groundbreaking collection brings together a variety of voices from the worlds of journalism, activism, academia, the arts, and public policy to address issues including the recent economic history of the gay community, the community’s response to its…
Since the 1930s, trans individuals have published autobiographies not only to tell or to clarify the stories of their lives but also to educate others in an effort to gain greater acceptance for trans people. Many of the early autobiographies were written by trans women, whose gender identities had been revealed by the press. Forced…
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION: The object of this work has been the isolation of groups of inter- sexes possessing common clinical features and arising from particular physiopathological disturbances, i.e., from particular modes of malfunction oft h e mechanism of sex determination. For this reason I have studied first the physiopathology of intersexuality. To orient…