On Trans Philosophy and troubling a Western-dominant sense of trans.

University of Minnesota Press

Across language and politics, feminism and phenomenology, and decolonial theory, Trans Philosophy addresses trans worldmaking in all its beauty and mundanity. The volume’s four editors, Perry Zurn, Andrea J. Pitts, Talia Mae Bettcher, and PJ DiPietro focus on the contributions of trans and gender-nonconforming philosophers from around the globe. Showcasing writing from a range of emerging and established voices, Trans Philosophy addresses discrimination, embodiment, identity, language, and law, utilizing diverse philosophical methods to attend to significant intersections between trans experience and class, disability, race, nationality, and sexuality. Here, the book’s four editors engage each other in conversation.

Perry Zurn is visiting associate professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Cornell University and associate professor of philosophy at American University. He is author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry and How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University and coeditor of Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge.

Andrea J. Pitts is associate professor of comparative literature at the University at Buffalo. They are author of Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance and coeditor of Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance.

Talia Mae Bettcher is professor of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. She is author of Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy (Minnesota, 2025); Berkeley's Philosophy of Spirit: Consciousness, Ontology, and the Elusive Subject; and Berkeley: A Guide for the Perplexed.

PJ DiPietro is associate professor of women’s and gender studies and director of the LGBTQ studies program at Syracuse University. They are author of Sideways Selves: Travesti and Jotería Struggles across the Américas and coeditor of Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones.

Contributing writers to Trans Philosophy include: Megan Burke, Sonoma State U; Robin Dembroff, Yale U; Marie Draz, San Diego State U; Che Gossett, U of Pennsylvania; Ryan Gustafsson, U of Melbourne; Stephanie Kapusta, Dalhousie U; Tamsin Kimoto, Washington U, St. Louis; Hil Malatino, Pennsylvania State U and Rock Ethics Institute; Amy Marvin, Lafayette U; Marlene Wayar.

WORKS AND PERSONS REFERENCED:

C. Riley Snorton / Black on Both Sides

Perry Zurn / Curiosity Studies and Curiosity and Power and How We Make Each Other

Hil Malatino / Side Affects and Trans Care

Hortense Spiller

Jacob Hale

Gwen Araujo

Special issue of Hypatia: Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities, edited by Talia Mae Bettcher and Ann Garry

What Is Trans Philosophy? By Talia Mae Bettcher in Hypatia

Marlene Wayar

Talia Mae Bettcher / Beyond Personhood

Mary Jones

Marsha P. Johnson

María Lugones

Marco Chivalan-Carrillo

Amaranta Gómez Regalado
Marcia Ochoa
Josefina Fernández
Diana Maffia

Lohana Berkins

Tourmaline

Trans Philosophy is available from University of Minnesota Press.