Before We Were Trans av Dr Kit Heyam

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<p><b>One of <i>History Today</i>''s Best Books of 2022</b><br><br><b>''I felt exquisitely anchored reading this wonderful book'' Juno Roche</b><br><br><b>''A thoughtful, fun, and refreshingly readable romp through the history of gender variance'' Susan Stryker</b><br><br><b>''A searing, reflexive read . . . that needs to be in everyone''s hands expeditiously'' Paula Akpan</b><br><br>Across the world today, people of all ages are doing fascinating, creative, messy things with gender. These people have a rich history - but one that is often left behind by narratives of trans lives that focus on people with stable, binary, uncomplicated gender identities. As a result, these stories tend to be recent, binary, stereotyped, medicalised and white.<br><br><i>Before We Were Trans </i>is a new and different story of gender, that seeks not to be comprehensive or definitive, but - by blending culture, feminism and politics - to widen the scope of what we think of as trans history by telling the s