Trans Historian Susan Stryker's Erasure of Gender Nonconformity
Philosophical confusion abounds in Stryker's influential book Transgender History
In her influential book Transgender History, now in its second edition, Susan Stryker defines "transgender" as "people who move away from the gender they were assigned at birth, people who crossover, trans, the boundaries constructed by their culture to define and contain that gender."
What's wrong with this? Everything! Definitions like this provide the…
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