Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- 1. Introduction: Potential for a transgender/third wave feminist coalition -- 1.1 Investigating connections: potential for a coalition -- 1.2 Building connections: how to form a coalition -- 1.3 Conclusion -- Terminology -- Format of Transstudy quotes -- Notes -- 2. Explaining trans lives: Silence and secrecy -- Introduction -- 2.1 Silence and secrecy -- 2.2 Infantilisation and the 'refusal to grow up' -- 2.3 Which trans identities are real? -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. The third wave: Career feminism or quiet revolution? -- Introduction -- 3.1 'Personally political postmodern identity' -- 3.2 Contradiction -- 3.3 Inter-wave philosophy and maternal relations -- 3.4 Womanism: excluded but inclusive -- 3.5 The third wave: an open and evolving discourse? -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Legal review: The view from somewhere -- Introduction -- 4.1 Radical struggles for single functional issue legislation -- 4.2 Any gender you want as long as it's heteronormative -- 4.3 'Othering' -- 4.4 Agency and communion -- 4.5 Postconventional ethics? -- The Equality Act 2010 -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Third wave philosophy: Dialogic negotiation -- Introduction -- 5.1 Ethical framework: setting up and maintaining the -- 5.2 Philosophical framework: queer inspired third wave feminism -- 5.3 Why narratives? -- 5.4 Semanalysis deriving from the semiotic -- 5.5 Construction of the critical discourse analysis framework -- 5.6 Creation of the reconstructing discourses -- 5.7 Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Identity essentialism to subjectivity-in-process: The whole trans person -- Introduction -- 6.1 Which gender variant subjectivities are real? -- 6.2 Political subjectivity? -- 6.3 The whole trans person -- 6.4 Identity as a process: subjectivity -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Notes