The Transgender Issue

This book is written with the utmost clarity – making an incisive and digestible argument why liberation for trans people fits into wider fights for socialism and justice for minorities. With chapters on why “T” belongs in “LGBT” and why trans inclusion should be core to feminist movements, it’s an essential read for LGBTQ+ people and their allies. 

It’s great to hear the voices of the UK’s latest generation of trans activists, and Shon’s book – passionate, factual, well-researched – exemplifies the best of their work. Her compelling writing sets out the lived realities of trans life in the twenty-first century, from youth to old age: a clear, cold wind of reality, epitomising today’s urgent call for trans equality and dispelling media mythologizing. Shon reviews work, family, housing, healthcare, the prison system (in which any of us could be remanded while wholly innocent of any crime), the way the T relates to the rest of LGBTQ+ and the… show more.