Table of Contents

• • Acknowledgements
  • Dedication
  • message to the generous souls who supported biyuti publishing

• 1. Introduction

  • 1.1 Motivation
  • 1.2 What to expect/how this is written
  • 1.3 About me
  • 1.4 Language

• 2. What is 'transgender'?

  • 2.1 The word and its origins
  • 2.2 Current Irrelevant Debates

• 3. Coming out

  • 3.1 The closet as myth
  • 3.2 Closet as empire
  • 3.3 the closet as reified white worldview

• 4. Transition

  • 4.1 Socially
  • 4.2 Medically

• 5. the (white) history of transgenderism and its evolution (in modern times)

  • 5.1 White american history
  • 5.2 the genesis of an imaginary community
  • 5.3 some thoughts on history

• 6. the pathology of being transgender

  • 6.1 The colonial origins of Transgender Pathology
  • 6.2 Fe/male socialization

• 7. discrimination

  • 7.1 The Pervasive Culture of Transmisogyny (and cissexism, i guess)
  • 7.2 Anti-discrimination laws
  • 7.3 Trans bathroom panic
  • 7.4 Family
  • 7.5 Bullying and trans kids
  • 7.6 Religion
  • 7.7 Passing

• 8. trans IDs only white ppl are now learning exist

  • 8.1 whiteness as default
  • 8.2 genderqueer and non-binary IDs
  • 8.3 Crossdressers
  • 8.4 Intersex
  • 8.5 Teh Binary

• Conclusions

  • 9.1 Final thoughts
• • Bibliography
  • about the publisher