A timely second release of the classic text on transgender history, with a fresh introduction and updated materials throughout

Covering American transgender history through the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History requires a chronological approach to the main topic of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 using the publication of The Transsexual Sensation, and lasted through the first 1970s; the mid-’70s to 1990-the period of identification politics and the changes observed in trans circles through these years; and the gender issues witnessed through the ’90s and ’00s.

Transgender Background includes informative sidebars highlighting quotes from major text messages and speeches in transgender history and short biographies of essential players, as well as excerpts from transgender memoirs and conversation of treatments of transgenderism in popular culture.