Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than one per cent of the country's population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized 'debate' which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows.

This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, in which trans people are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful voice.

In this book, Shon Faye reclaims the idea of the 'transgender issue' to uncover the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society.