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101. PA Media, ‘Ex-minister Who Sent Lewd Texts Cleared of Wrongdoing’, Guardian, 9 September 2019.
102. Trades Union Council, Still Just a Bit of Banter? Sexual Harassment in the Workplace in 2016, London: TUC Publications, 2017.
103. ‘Tarana Burke’, portrait, https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/tarana-burke.
104. Rebecca Nicholson, ‘Jessica Chastain’, Guardian, 20 December 2017; ‘#MeToo Was Only a Beginning. Time to Decide What Comes Next’, Guardian, 1 January 2018.
105. Annie Kelly, ‘Fashion’s Dirty Secret’, Guardian, 20 August 2020.
106. Roxane Gay, Hunger – A Memoir of (My) Body, New York: HarperCollins, London: Corsair, 2017, pp. 13, 20.
107. Ibid., pp. 18–19, 35.
108. Roxane Gay, ‘The Careless Language of Sexual Violence’, Bad Feminist, p. 135 (emphasis original).
109. Sandra Newman, ‘Bold Feminist Stories’, Guardian, 10 February 2017; Gemma Sieff, ‘No Shrinking Violets’, New York Times, 3 January 2017.
110. Gay, Hunger, p. 132; see also pp. 150, 162, 172, 197, 249, 273.
111. Ibid., p. 172.
112. Roxane Gay, ‘Florida’, Difficult Women, New York: Grove Atlantic, London: Corsair, 2017, p. 47.
113. Gay, Hunger, p. 222.
114. Roxane Gay, ‘North Country’, Difficult Women, pp. 92, 93.
115. Roxane Gay, ‘Break All the Way Down’, Difficult Women, pp. 144–5.
116. Roxane Gay, ‘I Am a Knife’, Difficult Women, pp. 179, 185, 187.
117. Jessica Benjamin, Beyond Doer and Done To – Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third, London: Routledge, 2018.
2. Trans Voices – Who Do You Think You Are?
1. April Ashley with Douglas Thompson, The First Lady, London: John Blake, 2006, pp. 262, 276.
2. Mark Rees, Dear Sir or Madam: The Autobiography of a Female-to-male Transsexual, London: Cassell, 1996, pp. 157–9.
3. Women and Equalities Committee, Transgender Equality – First Report of Session 2015–2016, 14 January 2015, Summary, p. 3.
4. Ashley, First Lady, p. 284.
5. Corbett v. Corbett (otherwise Ashley), Judgement by Justice Ormrod, February 1970, p. 18.
6. Corbett vs. Corbett, pp. 18, 2.
7. Ibid., p. 19.
8. Kate Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, A Memoir – The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She Is Today, Boston: Beacon Press, 2012, p. 251.
9. Jennifer Finney Boylan, ‘Loving Freely’, New York Times, 24 October 2015.
10. Robert Stoller and Ralph Greenson, ‘Gender Identity: Origins and Vicissitudes’, unpublished draft, prob. 1964, courtesy of John Forrester.
11. Robert Stoller, ‘Near Miss’, 1982, courtesy of John Forrester; Robert Stoller, Sex and Gender, London: Hogarth, 1968, p. 140.
12. Stoller, Sex and Gender, p. 136.
13. Ibid., p. viii; Vol. 2, The Transsexual Experiment, London: Hogarth, 1975.
14. Ashley, First Lady, p. 161.
15. Ibid., pp. 178–9.
16. Ibid., pp. 161, 178–9, 277.
17. Viviane K. Namaste, Invisible Lives – The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People, University of Chicago Press, 2000, p. 1.
18. Juliet Jacques, Trans – A Memoir, London: Verso, 2015 (unless otherwise specified, all references to Jacques are to this text).
19. Harold Garfinkel, ‘Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in an “Intersexed” Person’, 1967, in The Transgender Studies Reader, edited by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, London: Routledge, 2006, p. 60.
20. Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura, The Transgender Studies Reader 2, London: Routledge, 2013, p. 6.
21. Buzz Bissinger, ‘He Says Goodbye, She Says Hello’, Vanity Fair, July 2015, p. 120.
22. Jacques, Trans, p. 190, original italics.
23. Bissinger, ‘He Says Goodbye’, p. 66.
24. Namaste, Invisible Lives, Chapter 6, ‘Queer Bashing.’
25. David Valentine, Imagining Transgender – An Ethnography of a Category, Durham: Duke University Press, 2007, see especially Chapter 6, ‘The Calculus of Pain: Violence, Narrative and the Self’, p. 212.
26. Ibid., p. 209.
27. ‘How We’ll Remember US Trans Women Killed in 2015’, http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/11/20/how-well-remember-us-trans-women-killed-2015. See also ‘Rebecca Nicholson Meets Laverne Cox’ (‘Now I have the money to feminise my face, I don’t want to. I’m happy with this face’), Guardian, 15 June 2015.
28. Review of ‘Transcripts’, Edinburgh Film Festival, Guardian, 17 August 2015.
29. ‘AMA Adopts New Policies on First Day of Annual Meeting’, https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-adopts-new-policies-first-day-voting-2019-annual-meeting.
30. ‘The Quest for Transgender Equality’, full-page leader, New York Times, 4 May 2015.
31. Susan Stryker ‘(De)Subjugated Knowledges – An Introduction to Transgender Studies’, Transgender Studies Reader, p. 10.
32. Jacques, Trans, p. 34.
33. National Center for Transgender Equality, ‘Trump Administration Announces Beginning of Transgender Military Ban on April 12’, https://transequality.org/press/releases/trump-administration-announces-beginning-of-transgender-military-ban-on-april-12.
34. Moriah Balingit, ‘Education Department No Longer Investigating Transgender Bathroom Complaints’, Washington Post, 12 February 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/02/12/education-department-will-no-longer-investigate-transgender-bathroom-complaints/.
35. Lauren Gambino and Erin Durkin, ‘LGBT Groups Outraged over Trump Proposal to Remove Trans Rights’, Guardian, 23 October 2018.
36. Jacques tells her story in ‘Trans Eye View’, a column she wrote for one80news, a free LGBT newspaper handed out in Brighton clubs, before writing her online Guardian column on transitioning (she retells the story in Trans).
37. Jacques, Trans, p. 262.
38. Roz Kaveney, Tiny Pieces of Skull or A Lesson in Manners, London: Team Angelica, 2015, p. 95.
39. ‘Rebecca Nicholson Meets Laverne Cox’.
40. ‘AMA Adopts New Policies’.
41. Jayne County with Rupert Smith, Man Enough to Be a Woman, London and New York: Serpent’s Tail, 1995, p. 30.
42. Patricia Gherovici, Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Trangenderism, London: Routledge, 2010, p. 238.
43. Jan Morris, Conundrum, London: Faber, 1974, pp. 137, 147.
44. Margaret Talbot, ‘About a Boy’, Vanity Fair special edition, Trans America, August 2015, pp. 17, 103.
45. Virginia Goldner, ‘Editor’s Note,’ Psychoanalytic Dialogues 21:2, 2011, special issue: ‘Transgender Subjectivities: Theories and Practices’, p. 153.
46. Stryker, ‘(De)Subjugated Knowledges’, p. 11.
47. Bissinger, ‘He Says Goodbye’, p. 120.
48. Mark Brown, ‘Leibovitz: Most People Would Rather Be at Dentist than Before a Camera’, Guardian, 14 January 2016.
49. Jacques, ‘He to She’, Aeon, 15 January 2014, http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/before-and-after-the-makeover-industrys-favourite-trope/.
50. Susan Stryker, ‘My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix’, GLQ – A Journal o
f Lesbian and Gay Studies 1:3, 1994, www.annelawrence.com/mywords.html 4/15.
51. Garfinkel, ‘Passing’, pp. 62, 84.
52. Melanie McDonagh, ‘Changing Sex is Not to Be Done Just on a Whim’, Evening Standard, 5 January 2015.
53. Chris Johnston, ‘Ian McEwan Criticised by Campaigners over Transgender Remarks’, Guardian, 2 April 2016.
54. ‘Rebecca Nicholson Meets Laverne Cox’; Bissinger, ‘He Says Goodbye’, p. 67.
55. Jessica Cartner-Morley, ‘Modern Family: How the Kardashians Became a Force for Good’, Guardian, 3 June 2015.
56. Stryker, ‘My Words’.
57. Ibid.
58. Garfinkel, ‘Passing’, p. 64.
59. Personal communication for which thanks to Roz Kaveney.
60. Family Division and Administrative Court, High Court of Justice, Case FD1800035, Before The Rt Hon Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, between The Queen (on the application of TT) and The Registrar General for England and Wales, 25 September 2019, p. 60 – my thanks to Jeremy Rosenblatt for bringing this to my attention. See also Robert Booth, ‘Transgender Man Loses Court Battle to Be Registered as Father’, Guardian, 25 September 2019.
61. McFarlane, p. 1, clause 40.
62. Re M (Children), 2017, England and Wales Court of Appeal civ., 2164. My thanks to Jeremy Rosenblatt for sending me these details.
63. Talbot, ‘About a Boy’, p. 16.
64. Niels Hoyer (ed.), Man into Woman – An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex – The true story of the miraculous transformation of the Danish painter Einar Wegener (Andreas Sparre), translated from German by H. J. Stenning, London: Jarrolds, 1933, London: Blueboat, 2004 with Foreword by Helen Parker, pp. 6, 7; David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2000.
65. Morris, Conundrum, p. 138; Ashley, First Lady, pp. 33, 112.
66. Chelsea Manning, ‘The Five Years Since I Was Jailed over War Diaries Have Been a Rollercoaster’, Guardian, 28 May 2015.
67. Bornstein, Queer and Pleasant Danger, p. 251.
68. Jay Prosser, Second Skins – The Body Narratives of Transsexuality, New York: Columbia, 1998, pp. 1, 6.
69. Melanie Suchet, ‘Crossing Over’, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 21:2, 2011, special issue: ‘Transgender Subjectivities: Theories and Practices’, p. 184.
70. Prosser, Second Skins, p. 88.
71. Sandy Stone, ‘The Empire Strikes Back – A Posttranssexual Manifesto’, Transgender Studies Reader, p. 228.
72. Jay Prosser, ‘A Palinode on Photography and the Transsexual Real’, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 14:1, 1999.
73. Prosser, Second Skins, p. 49.
74. Carol S. Vance, Pleasure and Danger – Exploring Female Sexuality, London: Routledge, 1984.
75. Frances J. Latchford, ‘Sexed Life is a Cabaret: The Body Politics of Nina Arsenault’s The Silicone Diaries’ in Judith Rudakoff (ed.), Trans(per)forming Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work, Chicago and Bristol: Intellect, 2012.
76. Ibid., pp. 75, 219.
77. Jacques, Trans, p. 288.
78. Amia Srinivasan, ‘He, She, One, They, Ho, Hus, Hum, Ita’, London Review of Books 42:13, 2 July 2020.
79. Juliet Jacques, ‘On the “Dispute” Between Radical Feminism and Trans People’, New Statesman, 6 August 2014, https://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2014/08/dispute-between-radical-feminism-and-trans-people.
80. ‘Why the Trans Community Hates Dr Janice G. Raymond’, Transgriot, 20 September 2010, https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-trans-community-hates-dr-janice-g.html.
81. Germaine Greer, The Whole Woman, London: Doubleday, 1999, pp. 64–74.
82. Steven Morris, ‘Transgender Protest Fails to Stop Greer Delivering Lecture at Cardiff University’, Guardian, 18 November 2015.
83. Germaine Greer, ‘On Why Sex Change is a Lie’, Independent, 22 July 1989, cited in Paris Lees, ‘Germaine Greer and the Hypocrisy of the “Left”’, 20 November 2015, https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/germaine-greer-paris-lees-hypocrisy-left-free-speech.
84. Janice Raymond, The Transsexual Empire – The Making of the She-Male, New York: Athene, 1979, cited in Jacques, Trans, p. 105.
85. On this debate, see correspondence from Beatrix Campbell, Moira Dustin, Jay Prosser, Victoria Dutchman-Smith, Rachael Padman, and reply by Jacqueline Rose in London Review of Books 38:11–15, 2 June, 16 June, 14 July, 28 July 2016.
86. Moustapha Safouan, Cambridge talk, part of a series organised by Colin MacCabe, 1980.
87. A. Finn Enke, ‘The Education of Little Cis – Cisgender and the Discipline of Opposing Bodies’, Transgender Studies Reader 2, p. 235.
88. Catherine Millot, Horsexe – Essai sur le transsexualisme, Paris: Point Hors Ligne, 1983, p. 32.
89. Juliet Mitchell, ‘Sexuality, Psychoanalysis and Social Changes’ in Anthony Molino and Christine Ware (eds), Where Id Was – Challenging Normalization in Psychoanalysis, London: Continuum, 2001, pp. 108, 97.
90. Ashley, First Lady, p. 280.
91. Rees, Dear Sir or Madam, pp. 176–7.
92. Valentine, Imagining Transgender, pp. 114–15.
93. Stryker, ‘My Words’.
94. County, Man Enough, p. 139.
95. Bornstein, Queer and Pleasant Danger, pp. 199, 240.
96. Jacques, Trans, pp. 115, 227.
97. Ibid., p. 251, emphasis original.
98. Bornstein, Queer and Pleasant Danger, pp. 203, 236.
99. Paris Lees, ‘Why I’m Trans … and a Feminist’, Guardian, 18 January 2013.
100. Letters, Guardian, 18 October 2018, see also replies, 18, 23 October, 2 November. The correspondence started in response to a Guardian editorial of 17 October 2018, on the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act.
101. Stryker, ‘My Words’.
102. Liam Coleman, ‘Ladies Pond Changes Rules for Trans Women’, Evening Standard, 23 May 2019.
103. So Mayer, ‘Ah! To fleet/Never fleets móre’ in At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond, London: Daunt, 2019, pp. 55–6.
104. Bornstein, Queer and Pleasant Danger, p. xiv.
105. Cited in Latchford, ‘Sexed Life is a Cabaret’, p. 79.
106. Morris, Conundrum, pp. 70–1, 73, 87, 126.
107. John Gregory Dunne’s 1997 article on the killings, ‘The Humboldt Murders’, was reprinted in the August 2015 special edition of Vanity Fair on Trans America.
108. Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place, NYU Press, 2005, pp. 45, 65.
109. Dunne, ‘The Humboldt Murders’, p. 110.
110. Ibid., p. 95.
111. Talbot, ‘About a Boy’, p. 14.
112. Transsexual Stories, BBC1, 24 August 2015.
113. Suchet, ‘Crossing Over’, p. 186.
114. Ibid.
115. Goldner, ‘Editor’s Note’, p. 153.
116. Mary Mehl, cited in Sandy Stone, ‘The Empire Strikes Back’, Transgender Studies Reader, p. 229; Goldner, ‘Editor’s Note’, p. 168.
117. R. Nick Gorton, ‘Transgender as Mental Illness – Nosology, Social Justice, and the Tarnished Golden Mean’, Transgender Studies Reader 2.
118. Valentine, Imagining Transgender, p. 220.
119. Goldner, ‘Editor’s Note’, p. 154.
120. Jacques, Trans, p. 160.
121. Ken Corbett, ‘Speaking Queer: A Reply to Richard C. Friedman’, Gender and Psychoanalysis 2, 1997, p. 499, cited
in Goldner, ‘Editor’s Note’.