Book: Transpeople: Repudiation, Trauma, Healing

[Natasha]

Book: Transpeople: Repudiation, Trauma, Healing

http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/Book_Transpeople_Repudiation_Trauma_Healing-5577.aspx
9/25/2008

Nearly 10 years ago, now UBC professor Chris Shelley was "chided" by
two fellow activists for engaging with the experiences of transpeople.

"[They] told me flat out that there was no such thing as transsexuals,
that these were just disturbed queer people," he says. They also
labeled his project "antifeminist."

Though Shelley believes that most feminists today are supportive of
trans struggles, several transpeople he interviewed told of
contentious encounters with radical cultural feminists.