Some of you will remember that I was due to present a paper on trans characters in SF&F literature at ICFA this year, but could not do so due to being denied entry to the USA. In view of some of the panels it appears I may be on at Au Contraire and Aussiecon 4 it seemed appropriate to publish that paper here so that people attending the panels could read it. It is rather long, and being an academic paper is heavily footnoted, but it is now available for those who would like to read it. See here.
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I’m very much in the Trans spectrum and found your paper a treat to read. I’d like to add to your cites Crygender by Thomas T. Thomas, a slight crime novel that is fun to read but a bit eh? in it’s ending. There is also a very good shared universe SFish site dealing with a “Mutant” high-school and its surrounding meta-verse, it does have a bit of the X-Men flavor but I think worthy on it’s own. I’ve found the Whateley Academy http://www.crystalhall.org/ a lot of fun reading and the writing to be of surprising quality.