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**Description** This collection of essays is an interdisciplinary work bringing together an internationally acclaimed group of transgender writers. Informed by both academic and street experiences, it considers the practical issues faced in changing the world view of gender as well as the limitations of queer, feminism and post-modernism. In a wide-ranging set of contributions, it addresses our engendered places now and what we can aim for in the future. It evaluates the mechanisms we can use to galvanize both the micro theories of gender as a personal experience of oppression and the macro theories of gender as a site of social regulation. The collection aims to take identity politics and reclaim identity for the self. **Contents** Introduction 1 Kate More Introduction 2 Stephen Whittle Part One: Becoming Trans 1. The Becoming Man: The Law's Ass Brays Stephen Whittle 2. Passing Woman and Female-bodied Men: (Re)claiming FTM History Jason Cromwell 3. Portrait of a Transfag Drag Hag as a Young Man: The Activist Career of Louis G. Sullivan Susan Stryker 4. Exceptional Locations: Transsexual Travelogues Jay Prosser Part Two: Becoming (Trans)Active 5. Look! No, Don't! The Visibility Dilemma for Transsexual Men Jamison Green 6. Testimonies of HIV Activism Kate More and Sandra Laframboise with Deborah Brady 7. Talking Transgender Politics Roz Kaveney 8. A Proposal for Doing Transgender Theory in the Academy Markisha Greaney Part Three: Thinking Transsexualims in the New Millennium 9. Trans Studies: Between a Metaphysics of Presence and Absence Henry S. Rubin 10. 50 Billion Galaxies of Gender: Transgendering the Millennium Gordene O. Mackenzie 11. What Does a Transsexual Want? The Encounter between Psychoanalysis and Transsexualism Diane Morgan 12. Never Mind the Bollocks: 1. Trans Theory in the UK Kate More 13. Never Mind the Bollocks: 2. Judith Butler on Transsexuality An Interview by Kate More Index