A Short History of Trans Misogyny

The trans panic has not always been with us: it was invented

Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson's richly detailed narrative takes us from New York, London, and Paris to the colonial districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai'i to tell a richly detailed story of the emergence of trans misogyny.

Author: Jules Gill-Peterson
Publisher: Verso
Published: 06/24/2025
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781804291603
ISBN10: 1804291609
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Transgender Studies
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Social Science | Activism & Social Justice

About the Author
Jules Gill-Peterson is US-based writer, activist, and the author of the award-winning book Histories of the Transgender Child, published in 2018. Gill-Peterson is a tenured associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and a General Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, the journal of record in the field. She has earned a public reputation for fiercely advocating for transgender children and women, with interviews in outlets from NPR, to ABC, to New York magazine. She was profiled by the Guardian and published an op-ed on trans kids in the New York Times in 2021. She has also written for the New Inquiry, Jewish Currents, the Baffler, the Funambulist, Parapraxis, and more. Gill-Peterson is the cohost of Outward, Slate's LGBT podcast, and a member of the Death Panel podcast. She is also the narrator of the award-winning documentary Framing Agnes (dir. Chase Joynt, 2022), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.