This volume offers vivid accounts of the diversity of living transgender in today's world, representing the cutting-edge scholarship in transgender studies. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in sociology and gender and sexuality studies.

Sally Hines is a Lecturer at the University of Leeds. She was awarded the prestigious Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies in 2006 (award by CUNY, US) for her work on transgender and feminist theory. She is the author of TransForming Gender: Transgender Practices of Identity, Intimacy and Care (Policy Press, 2007).

Tam Sanger is the author of Trans People's Partnerships: Towards an Ethics of Intimacy (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). She completed her PhD in Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast.

Introduction Sally Hines Part 1: Emerging Identities 1. The Emergence of New Transgendering Identities in the Age of the Internet Richard Ekins and Dave King 2. Becoming Knowably Gendered: The Production of Transgender Possibilities and Constraints in the Mass and Alternative Press from 1990-2005 in the United States Laurel Westbrook 3. Telling Trans Stories: (Un)doing the Science of Sex Alison Rooke Part 2: Trans Governance 4. Recognising Diversity? The Gender Recognition Act and Transgender Citizenship Sally Hines 5. Transsexual Agents: Negotiating Authenticity and Embodiment within the UK's Medicolegal System Zowie Davy 6. (In)Visibility in the Workplace: The Experiences of Trans-Employees in the UK Em Rundall and Vincent Vecchietti Part 3: Transforming Identities 7. The Impact of Race on Gender Transformation in a Drag Troupe Eve Shapiro 8. Transgendering in an Urban Dutch Streetwalking Zone Katherine Gregory 9. Beyond Borders: Lived Experiences of Atypically Gendered Transsexual People Sara Davidmann Part 4: Transforming Theory 10. Who Put the 'Hetero' in Sexuality? Angie Fee 11. Corporeal Silences and Bodies that Speak: The Promises and Limitations of Queer in Lesbian/Queer Sexual Spaces Corie J. Hammers 12. Towards a Sociology of Gender Diversity: The Indian and UK Cases Surya Monro 13. Beyond Gender and Sexuality Binaries in Sociological Theory: The Case for Transgender Inclusion Tam Sanger