Discover the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything youve been told about transgender history. Highlighting influential individuals from 1850 to 1950 who are all but unknown today, Eli Erlick shares thirty remarkable stories from romance to rebellion and mystery to murder. These narratives chronicle the grit, joy and survival of trans people long before gender became an everyday term. Organised into four parts, paralleling todays controversies over gender identity kids, activists, workers and athletes Before Gender introduces figures whose forgotten stories transform the discussion. These groundbreaking histories include two of the first teens to access genderaffirming medical treatment, a countess who instigated an LGBTQ+ riot forty years before Stonewall and the greatest female billiards player of the 1910s. Bold and visionary, Erlicks debut uncovers these lost stories from the depths of the archives to narrate trans lives in a way that has never been attempted before.

Binding: Hardcover;282 pages; Publisher: Manchester University Press (P648); Classification: HBLW; Weight: 600 g; Dimensions: 242 x 163 x 27

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