was not at all expecting this sociology book on famous evangelical women to include a trans woman who was prominent in megachurch ministry + business before she transitioned & i genuinely feel like i’m twirling around inside like!!! this is how good your theory can be when you reckon with transmisogyny!!!
& i’m honestly delighted by how clear the author makes it that transmisogyny is misogyny through the interview questions she asks, the quotes she pulls, & the structure of the section. like she makes it so clear for readers who may be entirely unfamiliar with or misinformed about trans issues: this woman is being discriminated against because she is a woman. her experience is not only inherently relevant to this book but also strikingly similar to many of the cis women’s stories mentioned here in certain ways — women only get one strike and they’re condemned by the church, hers just happened to be expressing that she is a woman