You're Wrong
Subtitle: Trans Polemics
By: by C. Bain
Publisher: Tiresias Projekt
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Transgender women; COVID-19 (Disease); Popular works
Description: In a letter addressed to children’s author J.K. Rowling, transgender author C. Bain addresses the points made in Rowling's 2020 essay on gender and sex. Bain begins by impugning the "fiction of immutable, binary, biological sex," which rejects the idea that gender remains fixed throughout one’s lifetime. He then enumerates the disparities within the transgender experience: trans people of color and trans women are particularly vulnerable to violence. Bain explores the underlying psychology that leads to transphobic violence: trans sex disrupts the conventions of heteronormativity, inspiring disgust and fear in transphobes. The zine also includes counterarguments to some of Rowling's more widely touted points about menstruation, detransitioning, and bathroom signage. Other issues explored in within the letter are the connections between transgender identities and capitalism, American individualism, abuse, language, fetishization, and the medical/mental health system. Each page contains text only. -- Alekhya
Notes: Cover title.

This zine was made during the COVID-19 pandemic, but is not explicitly about the virus.

Freedoms and restrictions are not stated. Assume copyright.

Purchase; Bluestockings Cooperative 2021.