Introduction

This introduction provides an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses an emerging and vital field of scholarship, which deals with transgender and gender expansive informed education, policy and practice. It investigates trans specific education research, policy contexts and practices, with the view to generating knowledge about how the experiences of transgender youth, gender non-conformity and gender creative expression are being addressed in the education system. The book covers matters pertaining to the enactment of trans affirmative policies across a number of different contexts and educational jurisdictions, providing analytic insights into their specific contingencies and interpretive repertoires governing their enactment and reception. While there has been growing and significant research into addressing sexual diversity and schooling, a focus on transgender personhood is only more recently starting to gain much needed attention in the field of education.