Trans America - A Counter-History A Counter-History

?Trans America places the recent conversation about trans issues in its historical context, in impressive depth. Sweeping across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Barry Reay provides an accessible yet comprehensive guide to the important people, places and trends, in the USA and beyond ? ideal for anyone who wants to understand what came before the ?Transgender Tipping Point?.?
Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir
 
?The richly varied nature of the current trans movement is so beautifully explored and uncovered in Barry Reay's new book. A pleasure to read.?
Fayette Hauser of The Cockettes
 
?This is an admirable contribution to trans history by a highly respected scholar. It is a story of shifting categorizations, often highly medicalized and limiting, but above all a narrative of agency as trans people pushed definitions to the limit, bent them, and broke them and increasingly spoke for themselves in a powerful, if not always singular, voice. It?s a major achievement and deserves to become a classic.?
Jeffrey Weeks, London South Bank University
 
?This book is of very high quality. Reay is a major scholar in the field and writes with great authority and assurance.?
Thomas Laqueur, University of California at Berkeley
 
?Trans America is a thoughtfully written and impressively researched treasure trove of resources for those interested in understanding the history of transgender people and ideas in the USA.?
Eric Plemons, Social History of Medicine