[Revised entry by Talia Bettcher on November 21, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
The relationship between feminist and trans theory and politics is surprisingly fraught. The goal in this entry is to outline some of the key philosophical issues at the intersections, and this can be accomplished only by attending to the history thereof. This entry will therefore follow a roughly chronological order, although there will also be some deviations in the timeline to provide sustained philosophical engagements on specific points. While the early theorizing about trans issues did not occur in the discipline of…