Transgressive Trans Desires as Epistemology: A Radically Practical Resource

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Notes

1 Given the highly individualized, self-determined, and constantly becoming (Browne, 2008) nature of sexual and gender diverse identities and experiences, language used to describe such identities is forever evolving and never adequate. The term queer here is thus employed in the queer theory sense (e.g., Edelman, 1995) to enact a temporary collective of individuals who subscribe either to the term or one of its affiliates (e.g., LGBTQIA+), as well as those who have lived sexual and gendered experiences which may be constituted as “queer.”

2 As Jacobson et al. (2020) admirably adhere to a respect for the liminality of identity language and refrain from superimposing a community upon the individuals who self-identify throughout, the construct of TNG (i.e., transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse) is enacted here by this reviewer. This reviewer acknowledges the limitations and appreciates the benefits of employing such categorizations (Browne, 2008). Thus, this term is enacted to capture not only those individuals who identify with such terminology, but to any who identify with a gender other than their sex assigned at birth - it refers here to those who have the distinct lived experience of a felt or embodied gender incongruence.