Trans*am
Subtitle: cis men and trans women in love
By: Joseph McClellan
Publisher: ThreeL Media
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780996485241
Subjects: Transphobia; Transgender people; Interpersonal relations; Gender identity
Description: Trans women -- who were assigned male at birth and later transitioned into a female gender -- are increasingly in the media because of celebrities and controversial legislation. Now cis men -- who identify with a masculine gender they were assigned at birth -- are called upon to share their experiences as lovers of trans women. Using theory and personal anecdotes, the author questions the codes that cis men and trans women use to interpret their own and others' gendered and sexed bodies, and seeks to free romantic and sexual experience from prejudice and stigma.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-207).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : outer and inner biographies of a transam; title: Navigating the seas of identity : can we define the transam?; title: Reframing gender and sexual identities : the Buddhist path and the transam; title: The quest for validation : giving bodies definition; title: Worlds of interpretation : how words hurt bodies; title: Against interpretation : liberating bodies from restrictive languages; title: The naked world : Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body without interpretation; title: A personal transam sexuality : my body, my words.