![]() ![]() The jumble of books and blogs and films and tropes that we call “trans discourse” itself offers an inevitably limited view of trans experience. ![]() Anti-trans rhetoric shouldn’t dictate the terms of trans art or its reception, but it does-sometimes before the art is ever made. This is a certified piece of literary fiction, meaning it must pass a sophistication test with high stakes. Her new novel, Detransition, Baby, however, just came out from a Random House imprint called One World. ![]() For as long as such stories have stayed in the underground, where people make an effort to understand one another, fans who love Peters’s racy honesty haven’t had to worry much about how it fits into the broader literary culture. In the short works The Masker, Glamour Boutique, and Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones-a sci-fi contagion story about hormones-Peters zeroes in on moments when her trans protagonist behaves or thinks in ways that communal consensus has agreed is “wrong.” Peters simplifies nothing, explains nothing to the outsider, which is why she is treasured by readers who are also protective of her and her work. TORREY PETERS HAS BEEN self-publishing and giving away her stories online for pay-what-you-like prices since the mid-2010s. ![]()
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