In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery-a p
rocess she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspape
r column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up,
of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics. Fres
h from university, eager to escape a dead-end job and launch a career as a write
r, she navigates the treacherous waters of a world where, even in the liberal an
d feminist media, transgender identities go unacknowledged, misunderstood or wor
se.
