Journal of a Transsexual1980

A short theoretical piece in the form of a memoir by Leslie Feinberg, published in 1980. This work was Feinberg's first public attempt to put forward a political stance on trans liberation outside of Feinberg's work as a comrade within Workers World Party, an independent communist party. WWP's publishing arm was "World View Publishers," which printed this pamphlet and also Feinberg's expanded 1992 theorizing in "Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come." This pamphlet articulates Feinberg's thoughts at the time on the intricacies of gender and gender nonconformity as lived within capitalism. The work engages with these ideas in the context of the life of a working-class person who specifically says "I am a very masculine woman," and proceeds to show the social penalties and...