ABSTRACT
The narrative development evident in trans activist and author Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues works to reveal what seems to be a realistic account of the trans person's often rocky road to gendered self-realisation. Voices conflicting with the traditional narrative schema of gender transition laid out between transition practitioner and trans client, especially before the advent of inclusive trans theory/writing, have often been, if inadvertently, silenced by the medical community. Acquiring social agency via the gaining of 'voice' may emerge from the kind of entry into subjectivity theorised by Louis Althusser as 'hailing' or 'interpellation'. Reverse hailing can eventually endow the subject with a standpoint epistemology or insightful social viewpoint formed from their exclusion, as suggested by Foucault of those rejected from mainstream discourse. Physical reassignment treatments are necessary for some gender variant people in order to realise their autonomy and maintain their power of choice in terms of which gender to live.
