This book provides a crucial resource for readers who are investigating trans issues. It takes a diverse and historic approach, focusing on more than one idea or one experience of trans identity or trans history. * Provides students with outstanding source material and historic material on trans issues * Includes writing from some of the most recognized names in trans writing, history, and activism in the world * Approaches its subject from a deeply historical background, acknowledging the intersection of identities throughout time * Provides resources for further study, including profiles, data and documents, and a chronology of transgender history