Notes
1 This is not the only mention of transsexuality in the archive. In a 1983 commonplace book, Butler mentions trans issues in relation to the reception of Survivor and Wild Seed, a book starring two shapeshifting and sometimes species-, race-, or gender-shifting supernatural characters. Butler notes of the reception of Wild Seed that she received “complaints about sex in early novel [Sur.] but none about incest, rape, transsexualism & homo. in Wild Seed” (OEB Citation3183).