...This chapter looks into the lives of trans women in Byzantium. In this era, women and femininity were almost always seen as the lesser, imperfect sex, thus becoming a woman gave no social or spiritual gain. Narratives of men assigned females at birth and female masculinity show how the status...

...” encompasses the transition of both trans men and trans women without perceiving them to a gender binary. Bosch Hieronymus crucified figures Eulalia of Barcelona saint Julia saint naming Silver Larry virgin martyrs Boschini Marco Orientalism Christ Zanetti Antonio Maria ambiguity androgyny beards...

...This essay adds another voice to feminist and woman-centered voices in biblical interpretation: the transgender voice, specifically the trans woman voice. Drawn from interviews with transgender persons, the essay explores texts that support trans women and disrupts a binary...

...Men’s superior status within Burmese society places women, nuns, and trans women in positions of subordinate status. Debate about women’s “relatively high standing” in Burmese society is best resolved by considering the hierarchical understandings that make subordination appropriate rather than...

..., wherein Thailand is imagined as the ultimate space of exotic transformation and the fulfilment of desire across multiple sites. The chapter also presents non-Thai trans women's accounts of GRS in Thailand to highlight the pervasive sense that being present in Thailand somehow facilitates the experience...

...This chapter analyzes facial feminization surgery (FFS)—surgical procedures that are marketed to trans women to achieve a “feminine”-appearing face. FFS is positioned as a vital intervention; the “disfiguring” effects of gender nonconformity are described as deeply threatening to social interaction...