1st Edition

Becoming in Global Trans Studies Critical Approaches to Educational Theory, Methodology, Ethics, and Politics

Edited By Pin-Ru Su, Ting-Yen Ho, Shanshan Zhang, Z Nicolazzo Copyright 2026
230 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This ground-breaking book explores the increased visibility of trans people in various academic fields of study including education. It asks who this visibility benefits, and how. With much of the Trans Studies literature in education yet to seriously consider trans as a global phenomenon, or anything beyond an embodied reality, the authors present new possibilities for trans as a global concept,... Read more

Introduction: Becoming Trans*, Becoming Global: (Re)imagining Trans* Studies within and beyond Education

Pin-Ru Su, Ting-Yen Ho and Z Nicolazzo

Section 1: Becoming Trans*: Theoretical and Methodological Imagination

1.     Navigating the Body: Discipline, Resistance, and Gender Boundaries Through the Lens of a Trans* Educator

Ting-Yen Ho

2.     Toward Trans*-assemblage Thinking: Becoming a Trans*national Scholar through Posthuman Autoethnography

Pin-Ru Su

3.     Toward a Black Trans Methodology in Education

Qui Alexander

4.     Trans*-ing Borders Methodology: A Duoethnographic Inquiry of Two Taiwanese International Doctoral Students' Crossing Experiences

Ting-Yen Ho and Pin-Ru Su

5.     Trans Precarity under Conditions of Resurgent Far-right Extremism in Pedagogical and Campus Spaces

Jennifer Ingrey, Wayne Martino, and Malcolm Macdonald

Section 2: Becoming Global: Political and Ethical Phenomenology

6.     Please Take Off Your Trans* Mask as a Cis Actor on the Stage

Shanshan Zhang

7.     Hetero- and Cisnormativity within the Trans Community in Hong Kong

Wing Yan Joanne Leung and Pui Kei Eleanor Cheung

8.     Rebirth, It’s a Rebirth! The Meaning of Being a Transgender in the Globalizing LGBT Identity Politics in Taiwan

Yu-Ying Hu & Yu-Ting Liu

9.     Expanding Political Space for the Transgender Population in Schools: A Global Comparative Perspective on Transgender Policies in Taiwan's Higher Education

Weiting Wu

Conclusion: Across Waters, Lands and Generations: What the “New” Trans Studies in Education Has to Teach Us 207

Z Nicolazzo

Biography

Pin-Ru Su is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies & Practice at the University of Arizona, USA.

Ting-Yen Ho is a doctoral student in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies at the University of Arizona, USA.

Shanshan Zhang is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies & Practice at the University of Arizona, USA.

Z Nicolazzo is the interim associate dean of Faculty Affairs and a professor of Trans* Studies in Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies & Practice at the University of Arizona, USA.