Times- The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye and Trans by Helen Joyce review — two radical perspectives
The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye and Trans by Helen Joyce review — two radical perspectives Two authors with very different views on the transgender issue Christina Patterson Friday August 27 2021, 12.00am, The Sunday Times Up in arms: a Spanish protester holding a trans flag GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ/GETTY IMAGES The original article is here F rom the age of 11, Shon Faye was bullied for being a gay boy. On a school trip she woke to find a porn magazine open on her face. “I have had to learn,” she says at the end of this book, “to keep on going in a world which signalled to me at every turn that I was mad, bad, sick, deluded, disgusting, a pervert, a danger, unlovable.” These upsetting glimpses of her painful experience are among the few she offers in The Transgender Issue . However, she is utterly without self-pity. Her own experience as “a middle-class, white transwoman with a strong network of friends and family” is, she says, “wholly unrepresentative of the vast maj...