SOCIAL SCIENCES

Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences

Jessica Kingsley. Jan. 2025. 160p. ed. by Alex Iantaffi. ISBN 9781839970801. pap. $19.95. SOC SCI
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This collection of stories, poems, plays, drawings, and personal essays from 24 contributors, edited by therapist Iantaffi (author of Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma), shows many expressions of intersectional identities of people who are both trans and disabled. The collection is broken into three sections, named for key concepts: identity, treatment, and compassion. The messaging is clear and rings true across the stories; to be trans and be disabled is to have experienced discrimination. Additionally, the collection illustrates some of the challenges faced by trans people seeking medical care. The book includes stories from people with a wide variety of disabilities, including invisible conditions like plural identity, PTSD, chronic fatigue, neurodivergence, mast cell activation syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos, bipolar disorder, diabetes, and fibromyalgia. The contributors come from diverse backgrounds, with many religions, races, ages, sexual orientations, and trans identities represented. This work is valuable for mirroring the experiences of many of its readers while also encouraging its audience to open their minds to the lives of people with entirely different experiences from their own.
VERDICT An important depiction of trans and disabled experiences for all readers.
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