ABSTRACT
Recent years have seen a mushrooming of scholarship concerning transgender (trans) (for example, Namaste 2001; Whittle 2002; Stryker and Whittle 2006; Monro 2000, 2005, 2007; Hird 2002, 2006; Hines 2006, 2007a, 2007b; Hines and Sanger 2009). There has been a shift away from pathologizing and stigmatizing accounts towards those that take an activist stance, including rights claims which broadly seek equality for trans people within mainstream society (Whittle 2002), as well as those that seek to destabilize or transgress rigid categories of gender and sexuality (Feinberg 1996; Wilchins 1997). Trans citizenship has come onto the agenda, both in terms of the lived experiences of trans people and in the literature concerning trans (Monro 2003; Monro and Warren 2004; Hines 2007a, 2007b).
