Shon Faye

The public conversation around trans people runs as though the question were one of identity and language, of who feels what about themselves.

Shon Faye's The Transgender Issue offers another view.

Faye's case is that the question is housing, work, healthcare, and who the police stop, what the care system does with the children it takes.

Liberation, in her account, cannot be lifted out of the material conditions trans people share with everyone else the economy has no use for, which is the claim I've been building toward through Federici reach from the opposite end.

All right, what about you? What are you reading?

Uh, I read, I think I've spoken about a few of them, I read The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye, The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig, Love in Exile by Shon Faye, which was the Emma and My Book Club book this month.

Yes.

Um, I actually loved that so much that I, um, I was reading it on my Kobo, but I have bought a physical copy.