“The Transgender Issue” by Shon Faye (2021)

“The liberation of trans people would improve the lives of everyone in our society.”

It seems you can hardly glance at a news outlet these days without someone – invariably a heterosexual, cisgender someone – having something to say about the transgender community. Nine times out of ten, it’s something negative. The way they talk, you’d like some sort of demon species was stalking the landscape and every third person you pass had changed gender and that was, apparently, a Wrong Thing. While I do...