Frances Riddle
Author
Publisher
Polity Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The most popular narrative about transgender suggests that some people are born in the wrong body - that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed. But in the view of the sociologist and trans activist Miguel Missé, this narrative is a harmful myth. It is rooted in a medical paradigm that typically leads to medical intervention - to the use of hormones and surgical operations....