(Not saying that people from my list weren’t out/had a platform in 2010, I don’t have their Wikipedia pages memorized, lol, but none of them were mentioned in the book that I recall.)

Can you imagine going back to 2010 and being like JEN RICHARDS AND JANET MOCK AND LAVERNE COX AND YOON HA LEE AND CHARLIE JANE ANDERS AND ALOK VAID-MENON AND JANANI BALASUBRAMANIAN AND ANGELICA ROSS AND LAURA JANE GRACE AND TYLER FORD AND IMOGENE BINNIE AND PEPPERMINT AND FALLON FOX AND KYE ALLUMS AND KAT BLAQUE AND JAZZ JENNINGS AND JACOB TOBIA AND ISIS KING AND LAITH ASHLEY AND MORGAN M PAGE AND BAILEY JAY AND JIZ LEE AND ZACKARY DRUCKER AND RHYS ERNST AND OUR LADY J AND and and.

Most of my favorite trans voices, however, had yet to come out and/or had yet to reach a platform. Since 2010, Scott Turner Schofield has become one of the few trans men actors on TV. I follow Sassafras Lowry on twitter and they’re in my TBR. I recognize Bornstein and Serano, of course, but few others-I have a couple of Ryka Aoki’s books. Cis actors playing trans get a thanks, which I choose to find hilarious or else I’ll cry).Ĭonsidering the fact that this book was written a scant seven years ago, it blows my mind how many people I don’t know. (TG, transgendered, transwoman and transman as one word. The 2010 terminology is mostly the same, but there are a few relics that pop up that are not used nowadays. I find that when I look at trans history, lots of things seems the same (discrimination, struggles with documentation, violence, bathrooms, in-community fighting over terminology) but other things change rapidly.

When it comes to trans things, seven years simultaneously seems very recent and a long time ago. Thoughts that are not really a review: This book was written in 2010, which was before I was out as trans.

Gender outlaws the next generation