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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Transgender history has become a rapidly expanding area of research over the past decades which has helped to redress the balance of representation in LGBTQ+ history. As February celebrates LGBTQ+ History Month, below is a brief summary of the work of some of the pioneering experts in the field.<\/p>\n

Susan Stryker<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Susan Stryker is a professor and historian of gender and sexuality as well as a film maker and activist. Her first published article \u2018My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix\u2019 in 1994 was among the first to ever be published in an academic journal by a trans woman. As well as early works on LGBT culture and lesbian and gay pulp fiction, Stryker co-edited with Stephen Whittle The Transgender Studies Reader (2006) which gathers together key sources on global transgender history from sexological research by Harry Benjamin (one of the early proponents of gender affirmation surgery in America) to Sandy Stone\u2019s essay \u2018THE “EMPIRE” STRIKES BACK: A POSTTRANSSEXUAL MANIFESTO\u2019 answering the transphobic work of Janice Raymond. Stryker\u2019s Transgender History (2008) covers US transgender history from World War II to the 2000s including political and social movements, important events and major figures. Along with her written work, Stryker has also co-directed and co-produced several documentaries including Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton\u2019s Cafeteria (2005) which was awarded an Emmy, Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight (2009) and Christine in the Cutting Room (2013) about Christine Jorgensen a trans woman who transitioned in the 1950s.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996)<\/p>\n

The Transgender Studies Reader (2006)<\/p>\n

Transgender History (2008)<\/p>\n

The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (2022)<\/p>\n

Web links<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.susanstryker.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2007\/10\/11\/transgender_2\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/savingplaces.org\/stories\/making-space-dr-susan-stryker-and-preserving-transgender-history-in-san-francisco<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Jack Halberstam<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jack Halberstam is an American professor who has written several books and articles that examine and challenge binary constructions of gender. In Female Masculinity (1998), Halberstam decouples masculinity from men and discusses the forms female masculinity has taken from the nineteenth century onwards. The book includes an analysis of Anne Lister\u2019s (a gender non-conforming landowner who pursued relationships with women) diaries, Radclyffe Hall\u2019s (a gender non-conforming lesbian author) life and work and the issues surrounding access to public bathrooms faced by gender non-conforming individuals. Halberstam\u2019s work examines the \u2018border wars\u2019 between different queer identities such as trans men and \u2018butch\u2019 lesbians and questions the exclusivity of such categories.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Female Masculinity (1996)<\/p>\n

In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (2005)<\/p>\n

Gaga Feminism (2012)<\/p>\n

Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (2018)<\/p>\n

Web links<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.jackhalberstam.com\/ <\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/lambdaliterary.org\/2012\/02\/jack-halberstam-queers-create-better-models-of-success\/ <\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/public-thinker-jack-halberstam-on-wildness-anarchy-and-growing-up-punk\/<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Kit Heyam<\/h3>\n

Kit Heyam is a British writer, academic, trainer and heritage practitioner. They lead trans awareness training sessions and workshops for HE staff and students to help encourage ethical working practices with queer and trans communities. They also consult on books covering queer and trans individuals to ensure they receive fair and accurate representation. In 2022, Heyam published Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender. The book offers a fantastic rethinking of how transgender history is written about. Heyam challenges the need for historians to \u2018prove\u2019 an individual was unequivocally trans or that their motivation for presenting as another gender was solely informed by their gender identity. Instead, Heyam argues that \u2018[i]nstead of continuing the exhausting fight to prove our realness in the past and the present, I think it\u2019s time we changed the terms of the<\/p>\n

conversation. If we start to treat our standards of \u2018realness\u2019 critically, we can open up space for so many more new ways to relate to gender, in both the past and the present. We can both widen the scope of trans history and enable people of every gender to live more freely and expansively.\u2019 Heyam\u2019s approach allows for a far broader, inclusive and fluid representation of transgender and gender non-conforming history[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Reputation of Edward II, 1305-1695: A Literary Transformation of History (2020)<\/p>\n

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender (2022)<\/p>\n

Web Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

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