{"product_id":"trans-figured-on-being-a-transgender-person-in-a-cisgender-world-9781509561506","title":"Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World","description":"\u003cp\u003e'I was four and three-quarters when I asked my mother if, from now on, I could please go to school as a girl instead of as a boy ...'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Sophie Grace Chappell combines personal memoir, philosophical reflection, open letters, science fiction writing, and poetry to help us all figure out transgender.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is it really like to be transgender?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow can we as a society do better to accept the reality of trans lives and to welcome and include trans adults, trans children, and trans families?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow can trans people thrive in a cisgendered world?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor too long now, clouds of myth, misinformation, alarmism, and wrong-headed ideology have masked the reality of trans people's lives. By answering questions like these, this book blows away the clouds and gives us the truth instead.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRich, informative, and deeply moving, \u003ci\u003eTrans Figured\u003c\/i\u003e will be widely read and celebrated for years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Grace Chappell\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University, and Executive Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. Her books include \u003ci\u003eReading Plato's Theaetetus\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eEthics and Experience\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eKnowing What to Do\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), \u003ci\u003eEpiphanies: An Ethics of Experience\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), and \u003ci\u003eA Philosopher Looks at Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e (2024). She is a published poet (\u003ci\u003eSongs for Winter Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, 2021) and an enthusiastic, though not necessarily gifted, mountaineer and pianist. She lives in Dundee, Scotland, with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50542873706770,"sku":"9781509561506","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_72115f10-950f-45a5-9083-ae5888ea42b0.jpg?v=1731497158","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/trans-figured-on-being-a-transgender-person-in-a-cisgender-world-9781509561506","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}