FTM Trans Pride, 1994, San Francisco
Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Coalition at Pride Parade, 1999, San Francisco
Sylvia Rivera holding banner at Christopher Street Liberation Day parade, 1983, New York City
Come Out! No. 7 page 5, 1970
Two Transfeminine People on a Pickup Truck at Pride March, 1988, New York City
In 2023, more than 380 bills have been introduced to strip away rights, protections, and resources from trans people in the US, the most ever introduced in a single year. According to the Washington Post, “More legislation has been filed to restrict the lives of trans people so far in 2022 than at any other point in the nation’s history, with trans youth being the most frequent target of lawmakers.” In the face of mounting attacks on transgender rights, transgender health care, and transgender lives – all in the context of similar attacks on reproductive rights and gender equity - Signs is offering free online access to eighteen articles, essays, and multimedia materials centering trans feminism, trans theory, trans survival, and trans resistance. The assaults against trans people, in the US and worldwide, are a feminist issue and a feminist priority.
- Cameron Awkward-Rich, “Trans, Feminism: Or, Reading like a Depressed Transsexual.” Signs 42, no. 4 (2017): 819–41.
- Martha Balaguera, "Trans-migrations: Agency and Confinement at the Limits of Sovereignty." Signs 43, no. 3 (2018): 641–64.
- Talia Mae Bettcher, "Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Rethinking Trans Oppression and Resistance." Signs 39, no. 2 (2014): 383-406.
- Mary Anne Case, "Trans Formations in the Vatican's War on 'Gender Ideology.'" Signs 44, no. 3 (2019): 639-64.
- V Varun Chaudhry, "On Trans Dissemblance: Or, Why Trans Studies Needs Black Feminism." Signs 45, no. 3 (2020): 529-35.
- Raewyn Connell, "Transsexual Women and Feminist Thought: Toward New Understanding and New Politics." Signs 37, no. 4 (2017): 857-81.
- Frohard-Dourlent, Hélène, Elizabeth Saewyc, Jaimie Veale, Tracey Peter, and Margaret MacAulay. "Conceptualizing Gender: Lessons from the Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey." Signs 46, no. 1 (2020): 157-76.
- Cressida J Heyes, "Feminist Solidarity after Queer Theory: The Case of Transgender." Signs 28, no. 4 (2003): 1093-1120.
- Katie R. Horowitz, "The Trouble with 'Queerness': Drag and the Making of Two Cultures." Signs 38, no. 2 (2013): 303-26.
- Gill Jagger,"The New Materialism and Sexual Difference." Signs 40, no. 2 (2015): 321-42.
- Sanna Karhu, "Gender Skepticism, Trans Livability, and Feminist Critique." Signs 47, no. 2 (2022): 295-317.
- Anna Kir,kland, "What’s at Stake in Transgender Discrimination as Sex Discrimination?" Signs 32, no. 1 (2006): 83-111.
- Hil Malatino "The Promise of Repair: Trans Rage and the Limits of Feminist Coalition." Signs 46, no. 4 (2021): 827-51.
- Stella Nyanzi, "Queer Pride and Protest: A Reading of the Bodies at Uganda’s First Gay Beach Pride." Signs 40, no. 1 (2014): 36-40.
- Tania Pérez-Bustos, "Of Caring Practices in the Public Communication of Science: Seeing through Trans Women Scientists’ Experiences." Signs 39 no. 4 (2014): 857-86.
- Katrina Roen, "'Either/Or; and 'Both/Neither': Discursive Tensions in Transgender Politics." Signs 27, no. 2 (2002): 501-22.
- Dean Spade, "Intersectional Resistance and Law Reform." Signs 38, no. 4 (2013): 1031-55.