Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World

by Sophie Grace Chappell

Overview

‘I was four and three-quarters when I asked my mother if, from now on, I could please go to school as a girl instead of as a boy …’

In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Sophie Grace Chappell combines personal memoir, philosophical reflection, open letters, science fiction writing, and poetry to help us all figure out transgender.

What is it really like to be transgender?

How can we as a society do better to accept the reality of trans lives and to welcome and include trans adults, trans children, and trans families?

How can trans people thrive in a cisgendered world?

For too long now, clouds of myth, misinformation, alarmism, and wrong-headed ideology have masked the reality of trans people’s lives. By answering questions like these, this book blows away the clouds and gives us the truth instead.

Rich, informative, and deeply moving, Trans Figured will be widely read and celebrated for years to come.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509561506
Publisher:	Polity Press
Publication date:	06/25/2024
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Sophie Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University, and Executive Editor of The Philosophical Quarterly. Her books include Reading Plato’s Theaetetus (2005), Ethics and Experience (2011), Knowing What to Do (2014), Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience (2022), and A Philosopher Looks at Friendship (2024). She is a published poet (Songs for Winter Rain, 2021) and an enthusiastic, though not necessarily gifted, mountaineer and pianist. She lives in Dundee, Scotland, with her family.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Part 1: That was then

Part Two: This is now

Part Three: Is consciousness gendered?

Part Four: The adoption analogy

Part Five: Gatekeepers, Engineers, and Welcomers

Part Six: An Open Letter to J.K.Rowling (June 2020)

Part Seven: The View from Lissounes: a thought experiment

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Notes