By tracing the development of racial identity to the transatlantic slave trade, he argues that blackness and transness have always had a relationship that is both transitive and transversal - to talk about blackness, he says, is to speak about transness, and vice versa. But Snorton proposes we look at the history of trans identity as directly tied to an account of racial identity. In popular American discourse, trans people didn’t exist before Christine Jorgensson got gender affirmation surgery in the 1940s. Riley Snorton works to trouble the typical historical narrative surrounding trans identity.
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