Manchester Socialist Feminist Book Club: The Transgender Issue

Join our Manchester Socialist Feminist Book Club, hosted by Workers' Liberty.

In our February meeting we'll be reading Shon Faye's The Transgender Issue, with a particular focus on chapters 3, 5 & 7 (Class Struggle, The State, The Ugly Sister:Trans People in Feminism)

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FROM THE BLURB: In this brilliant introduction to trans politics, journalist Shon Faye gives an incisive overview of systemic transphobia and argues that the struggle for trans rights is necessary to any struggle for social justice.
So often, Faye argues, trans people are understood as a “side issue,” the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized 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.
With skill, rigor, and heart, Faye uncovers the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society. In this compellingly readable study, she explores issues of class, family, housing, healthcare, sex work, the Pr*son system, and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities. What she finds, ultimately, is that when we fight for trans liberation, we fight for a better world for us all.

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