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This course is designed to explore transgender politics through multiple valances and to ask what does it mean for us to to trans politics. Although there have been countless examples of gender variance throughout history, the term transgender has only recently emerged to describe a variety of such identities and experiences. Throughout this course we will examine the politics of transgender lives, how they are represented at large, and how transgender individuals represent themselves. To do so we will employ diverse mediums including film, literature, and comics in addition to more standard Political Science texts.