Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender Sara Farizan a chance to sit at

a chance to sit at the feet of the kind of woman they don't make anymore--and never did

a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse

It breaks all of the rules

and dumb jokes

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender Sara Farizan a chance to sit atA groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today's narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people's lives. Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied