Citation

Shotwell ALEXIS, Sangrey TREVOR. Hypatia 2009; 24(3): 56-76.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Indiana University Press)

DOI

10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01045.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper argues that trans and genderqueer people affect the gender formation and identity of non-trans people. We explore three instances of this relationship between trans and non-trans genders: an allegiance to inadequate liberal-individualist models of selfhood; tropes through which trans people are made to stand as theoretical objects with which to think about gender broadly; and a narrow focus on gender and evasion of an intersectional understanding of gender formation.