Acknowledgements
Foreword – Aaron H. Devor
Introduction – Dan Irving and Rupert Raj

Part I: Transforming Experiences of Oppression into Opportunities for Social Change

Part IA: Historical Perspectives
Chapter 1: “We Paved the Way for Whatever Tolerance They Have in Their Lives”: An Interview with Michelle De Ville, “The First Door Bitch in Montreal” – Viviane Namaste
Chapter 2: The Golden Age of Prostitution: One Woman’s Personal Account of an Outdoor Brothel in Vancouver, 1975-1984 – Jamie Lee Hamilton
Chapter 3: Rupert Raj and the Rise of Transsexual Consumer Activism in the 1980s – Nick Matte
Chapter 4: Gender Strike! It’s an Offence – Elizabeth “Raven” James
Chapter 5: Finding My Place: The High Risk Project Society – Sandy Leo Laframboise

Part IB: Contemporary Perspectives
Chapter 6: Two Poems: “My Name is Susan” and “Pause and Reflect” – Susan Gapka
Chapter 7: When Dad Becomes Mom: The Story of One Mother’s Love for Her Children, Parent Alienation, and “Happily Ever After” – Michelle Boyce and Jessica Boyce

Part II: “Changing the Way We Change”: Critical Reflections on Doing Trans Activism

Part IIA: Individual Approaches
Chapter 8: A Sense of Place: Expressions of Trans Activism North of Lake Nipissing – Grey Kimber Piitaapan Muldoon (with Dan Irving)
Chapter 9: Zening the Art of Trans Activism – Rupert Raj
Chapter 10: Acting Queerly: Ruminations on Being a Queer Lawyer and Activist – barbara findlay
Chapter 11: Choosing Better than Oppression – Calvin Neufeld

Part IIB: Community Approaches
Chapter 12: “What Is Missing in Our Community Is Self-Love.” An Interview with Marie-Marcelle Godbout, Founder of L'Aide aux Transsexuel(le)s du Québec – Nora Butler Burke and Viviane Namaste; translated and revised by Natalie Duchesne
Chapter 13: Trans Access Project: Running the Gauntlet – Kyle Scanlon, Jake Pyne, Dani Araya, Alec Butler, Jazzmine Manalo, Evana Ortigoza, Julissa Penate, Yasmeen Persad, and Kenji Tokawa
Chapter 14: A Conversation about Art and Activism with Trans and Genderqueer People Labelled with Intellectual Disabilities – Zack Marshall, Marcus Burnette, Sonia Lowton, Rainbow, Romeo Dontae Treshawn Smith, Jay Tiamo, Onyinyechukwu Udegbe, and Tess Vo; illustrations by Elisha Lim
Chapter 15: Happy Tranny Day – Tien Neo Eamas and Devon MacFarlane

Part III: Transforming Institutions from the Inside

Part IIIA: Transformations in Bureaucracy
Chapter 16: Gender Struggles: Reflections on Trans Liberation, Trade Unionism, and the Limits of Solidarity – Trish Salah
Chapter 17: Trans in Class: Trans Activism in a Suburban School Board – j wallace
Chapter 18: A Very Brief Discussion of Social Work and Gender – Treanor Mahood-Greer
Chapter 19: One Step at a Time: Moving Trans Activism Forward in a Large Bureaucracy – Devon MacFarlane, Lorraine Grieves, and Al Zwiers

Part IIIB: Transformations in Health
Chapter 20: Auditioning for Care: Transsexual Men in Ontario Accessing Health Care – Will Rowe
Chapter 21: Agustine Only Plays with Barbies: A Psychosocial Synthesis of a Case Study – Silvia Tenenbaum
Chapter 22: Using a Family and Multi-Systems Treatment Approach: Working with Gender-Variant Children – Wallace Wong
Chapter 23: Sexual Health on Our Own Terms: The Gay, Bi, Queer Trans Men’s Working Group – Ayden I. Scheim, Syrus Marcus Ware, Nik Redman, Zack Marshall, and Broden Giambrone
Chapter 24: Public Health Professionals, Community Researchers, and Community-Based Participatory Action Research: Process and Discovery – Kathy Chow, Jean Clipsham, Cheryl Dobinson, Susan Gapka, Elaine Hampson, Judith A. MacDonnell, and Rupert Raj
Chapter 25: Advocacy for Gender Diversity in the Contemporary Canadian Nursing Context: A Focus on Ontario – Judith A. MacDonnell and Robin Fern

Afterword – Viviane Namaste
Contributor Biographies
Index