As the feminist academic Viviane Namaste wrote twenty years ago: ‘Professional and middle-class norms determine not only what transsexuals can say and in what spaces. They also confer the right to speak to those transsexuals who will abide by the codes of a middle-class discourse.’3 In writing this book, I have tried to use these privileges as an instrument to amplify the voices of trans people who are not as routinely heard or discussed.
