ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the fat/trans intersection is embodied with the aim of highlighting some of the assumptions underpinning existing approaches to gender within Fat Studies, and more broadly to ask what the role of fat is in producing gendered embodiment at all. It is not that the intersection of fat and gender has never been considered within Fat Studies, indeed – in the form of cis-female experiences of (hetero)patriarchal culture – gender has been central to fat scholarship. However, approaching the intersection of fat and gender through trans, non-binary and genderqueer people’s experiences opens up new ways of unpicking the assumed relationships between bodies and selves that underpin much of the critical discourse around fatness.
