{"product_id":"trans-gressive-how-transgender-activists-took-on-gay-rights-feminism-the-media-congress-and-won","title":"TRANS\/gressive: How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, the Media \u0026 Congress... and Won!","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the early 1990s, no one talked about transgender people, and no one knew one. We were not on TV or in movies. What formed the visible part of the transcommunity - overwhelmingly white, urban, and middle class - was also overwhelmingly focused on conferences, surgery or hormones and cisgender acceptance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis was still a determinedly non-political population, often in defensive crouch because it was also constantly under attack by the media, police, local legislatures, feminists and even LGB-but-never-T advocates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe were a group that still thought of ourselves as a collection of separate individuals, not a movement. What made political consciousness so difficult was that there was no \"transgender section\" of town, where we saw each other regularly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd mainstream society mostly ignored us. And when it didn't, it usually made clear it despised us. We were freaks. We were gendertrash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe lived in a transient and indoor community that knew itself only a few days at a time during conferences at hotels out on the interstate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut all that was about to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven when politics are avoided, bringing despised and marginalized people together is itself a political act. Without realizing or intending it, the community was reaching critical mass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven in those pre-Internet, pre-cellphone days, enough transpeople were running into one another often enough to begin realizing we could be a force, that we didn't really need cisgender acceptance. What we needed was our civil rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the inside story of how in just a few years, a handful of trans activists would come together in the face of enormous difficulties and opposition to launch from the very margins of society what would grow into the modern political movement for gender rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3295079\"\u003eRiki Wilchins\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverdale Avenue Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781626013681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1626013683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC064000\"\u003eLGBT Studies | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC032000\"\u003eGender Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Riverdale Avenue Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42666776101101,"sku":"9781626013681","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_84f37427-3f0f-4a1a-85a7-9dc917618e13.jpg?v=1649435983","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/trans-gressive-how-transgender-activists-took-on-gay-rights-feminism-the-media-congress-and-won","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}