"Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of the country's population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarised 'debate', which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which trans people themselves are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful voice.
In this powerful new book, Shon Faye reclaims the idea of the 'transgender issue' to uncover the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society. In doing so, she provides a compelling, wide-ranging analysis of trans lives from youth to old age, exploring work, family, housing, healthcare, the prison system, and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, in contemporary Britain and beyond."
According to Wikipedia, Shon Faye (born in 1988) is an English writer, editor, journalist, and presenter, known for her commentary on LGBTQ+, women's, and mental health issues. She hosts the podcast Call Me Mother and is the author of the 2021 book The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice.
She was an editor-at-large at Dazed and contributed features and comment journalism to The Guardian, The Independent, VICE, n+1, Attitude, Vogue, Verso, and others. She studied English Literature and Law at the University of Oxford. After graduation, she moved to London in her early twenties, where she worked as a lawyer. Due to her gender dysphoria, she quit her job, moved back to Bristol and came out as a trans woman.
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Photo: Self-portrait Author Shon Faye at Penguin Studios in London August 2021 via Wikipedia
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