ABSTRACT
Parents-to-be, family and friends at gender-reveal parties all assume that the baby – regardless of its biology – will adopt a gender identity that is socially and culturally prescribed according to normative understandings of sexed bodies. Gender-reveal parties reinforce the notion that gender is synonymous with genitalia, and they assume a narrow understanding of sex and gender. At the same time, scientists are uncovering new complexities in the biological understanding of sex. Many of them learned high school biology that sex chromosomes determine a baby's sex, full stop: XX means it's a girl; XY means it's a boy. This chapter focuses on how transphobia is lived, experiences and embodied in the context of the everyday in particular spaces and places, and within interpersonal relationships. It brings to the pages an embodied geography of transphobia and gender binarism. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
