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Susan Stryker: Transgender History (Paperback, 2017, Seal Press) 5 stars

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological …

We must know our history when it's under attack

5 stars

This edition may be six years old and the first over a decade, but turning the pages you'll feel as if you're reading today's news; the most valuable lesson Dr. Stryker gives is that everything old is new again as wave after wave of attempts at assimilation, backlash, resistance, and intracommunity fights alternately erode and push forward transgender rights and liberation.

If there's a weakness to this history its of the early gap in transmasculine stories, partly due to (as explained in the book) transmasculine communities largely overlapping with lesbian communities and not separating until the mid 20th century.