Home » Deviants and Trailblazers
Product Image

Deviants and Trailblazers

Rebecca Jane Morgan
€25.99
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
A01=Rebecca Jane Morgan
assimilation in trans activism
Author_Rebecca Jane Morgan
Category=JBFA
Category=JBSF11
Category=JBSF3
Category=JPVH
Category=NHTB
Corbett v. Corbett
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_new_release
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
European Court of Human Rights
gender recognition
Gender Recognition Act
legal gender change
LGBTQ+ rights UK
radical trans politics
trans activism
trans community organizations
trans discrimination
trans health misinformation
trans history
trans history in the UK
trans history UK
trans identity
trans law reform
trans legal battles
trans legal recognition
Trans liberty
trans political history
transgender
transgender rights
UK trans history

Product details

  • ISBN 9780745351759
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 08 May 2026
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns
Description

At a time when trans rights are under attack across Britain and beyond, Deviants and Trailblazers arrives as a powerful antidote, uncovering a rich, overlooked history. Spanning from the first legal gender changes in 1944 and the devastating Corbett v. Corbett ruling in 1970, to the groundbreaking Gender Recognition Act of 2004 and the ongoing battle for reform today, this is a gripping chronicle of resistance and radical change.

Far from being a recent invention or a niche concern, legal recognition of trans identities has been a demand of trans communities for generations. Rebecca Jane Morgan shows how that fight emerged, evolved, and was sustained by grassroots organising, court battles, and an unwavering demand by the trans community to be recognised by the very systems that so often try to erase them.

In a moment defined by pseudoscience, moral panic, and political backlash, this authoritative and readable account of the movement to date offers clarity, context, and hope.
About Rebecca Jane Morgan
Rebecca Jane Morgan is a transfeminist historian of modern Britain, popular culture, and queer identities. She is the author of Gender Heretics: Evangelicals, Feminists, and the Alliance Against Trans Liberation and Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain.

More from this author