Transgender Activism and the Net: Global Activism or Casualty of Globalisation

“Transsexuality and transgender are contested terms which signify in a range of ways. This chapter does not seek to destabilise different experiences of transgendered or transsexual subjects. However, it does question some models of transsexual identity — as a passive subject (Hausman 1995) or pathologised — and some ideas of transgender articulated in popular cyberculture, by contextualising trans-activism as a social movement. It also questions the use of transgender to signify an ‘ideal’ queer subject (e.g., Halberstam 1998).”