Almost everywhere in the world today, transsexuals face the hostilities that their different sexuality creates in society; they are excluded because they are seen as threatening patriarchy, and in the best case they are ignored.
This book aims to determine the situation of transsexuals in Turkey by listening to them from their own mouths and to give visibility instead of covering up the problems. As much as it's a means for transsexuals to express themselves, it also sheds light on what our society thinks about gender and sexuality in general: Where does the anger and disgust with transsexuals come from?
The central question that drives Selin Berghan's research in Lubunya, which consists of interviews with eleven people, is where transsexuals transform and reproduce the existing patriarchal system while constructing their gender identities and bodies. For this purpose, the author underlines the difference between transsexuality from homosexuality and crossdressing, and in her conversations with transsexuals, she examines themes such as childhood, family environment, relationships with parents, first sexual experiences, adaptation or incompatibility with people's gender roles, pressures from the environment, "being treated", prostitution market, physical changes, surgery, femininity and masculinity, and society's "othering" of transsexuals.
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