THE TRANSGENDER ISSUE

An argument for justice

SHON FAYE

320pp. Allen Lane. 20 [pound sterling].

The title of Shon Faye's book, The Transgender Issue, drips with sarcasm. The author chose it because "everyone is constantly going on about us as an issue". But "they're having the wrong conversation and leaving us out of it".

There certainly are transgender issues. The book is stuffed with them: from the crisis of trans healthcare in Britain, with people facing waiting times well in excess of four years for a first appointment at one of the country's handful of Gender Identity clinics, to the moral panic about adolescents being "rushed" through hormone therapy (though puberty tends to be...