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Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir is a 2016 Canadian book by Kai Cheng Thom. A surrealist novel, it follows an unnamed transgender woman protagonist who leaves home at a young age to live on the Street of Miracles—where various sex work takes place—with other "femmes" (trans women). After one of them is killed, others form a gang and begin to attack men on the street.

Thom aimed not to write a traditional transgender memoir targeted at explaining transgender issues to cisgender people, but to write the book that would have helped her as a transgender teenager. Characters are based on people from her life, as are plot points, but they are exaggerated and made surrealist. Two metaphors, those of killer bees living inside her and a Ghost Friend which can make her orgasm, represent after-effects of traumatic abuse.

The novel garnered critical praise and was a finalist for Transgender Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards. It experienced a resurgence of attention when Emma Watson chose it for her feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf, in 2019.

Angel in 2010

Buck Angel (born June 5, 1962) is an American sex educator and a former pornographic film actor and producer. He founded the media production company Buck Angel Entertainment. A transgender man, he currently works as an advocate and educator. Angel served on the board of directors of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation from 2010 to 2016; the foundation works to affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right through advocacy and education.

• ... that transgender pioneer Barbara Ann Wilcox proposed to her husband on the day she met him?
• ... that transgender activist Ky Schevers transitioned to male, detransitioned to female, then retransitioned as transmasculine and genderqueer?
• ... that, after being elected as the first transgender city councilor of Belo Horizonte, Duda Salabert was fired from her job as a teacher when the school where she worked received a threatening email?
• ... that Jo Inkpin was Australia's first openly transgender Anglican priest?
• ... that Precious Brady-Davis and her husband were the first transgender couple to have their gender identities listed correctly on an Illinois birth certificate?
• ... that records of transgender people in Finland stretch back to the 19th century?

• 10 – Jake Zyrus (1992), Filipino singer and actor
• 15 – Jackie Shane (1940–2019), American singer
• 19 – Sam Smith (1992), English non-binary singer and songwriter
• 25 – Poppy Z. Brite (1967), American author
• 25 – Cece McDonald (1989), American activist
• 26 – Caitlín R. Kiernan (1964), Irish author
• 29 – Laverne Cox (1972), American actress and transgender advocate
• 30 – Christine Jorgensen (1926–1989), American transgender woman

• ... that on June 15th, 2020, the United States Supreme Court decided in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination because of their sexual orientation or gender identity?
• ... that Tessa Ganserer is the first openly transgender person to serve in a German parliament?
• ... that after law school, Chase Strangio, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a trans man, worked as a public defender for Dean Spade, the first openly trans law professor in the US?

But if we cannot know what causes transsexuality, we can know a great deal about it. We can acknowledge its power and its reality, we can learn about other transsexual people and their experiences, and we can discover its ancient worldwide history.