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  • The Transgender Issue

  • An Argument for Justice
  • By: Shon Faye
  • Narrated by: Shon Faye
  • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)

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Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than one per cent 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.

The Transgender Issue is a landmark work that signals the beginning of a new healthier conversation about trans life. It is a manifesto for change and a call for justice and solidarity between all marginalised people and minorities. Trans liberation, as Faye sees it, goes to the root of what our society is and what it could be; it offers the possibility of a more just, free and joyful world for all of us.

©2021 Shon Faye (P)2021 Penguin Audio
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  • Categories: LGBTQ+

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Excellent overview and well researched arguments.

Well worth a listen, especially for people who may not be a member of the LGBTQIA+ community and wish to gain an understanding about gender diversity and how it interrelates with other social, cultural, political and economic realities. Although centred on UK policy it branches out internationally and may of the themes addressed are also highly relevant and prevalent in much of the western world. As an Australian there are many parallels that can be drawn with my home country.

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fantastic intersectional analysis

some history, some context, nothing but facts
I love how Shon got a view point for trans men and didn't just centre her book on her lived experience as a white trans woman. again we all need intersectional feminism.

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meh, its ok

Excellent book when explaining the various issues trans people face, in the media, school, and many other areas, I learned a lot. The bad part is when the author tries to propose solutions that are only based on her own political views, that can put off a lot of readers. For example, taking for granted some theories like critical theory, post-modernism, and insisting that there is no solution in Capitalism, and also saying the prison system should be replaced entirely, these are ideas that can be challenged and I think a lot of people will just roll their eyes. it seems that the last chapters were too much of a stretch in that sense and I really thought some claims at end were ridiculous, but on the narrative of events it was excellent and very informative

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