This book looks at the conditions that are shortening trans people’s lives and investigates what role law plays in producing those conditions and what role law could or should play in changing them. In the last two decades, the public discourse about trans identities and trans rights has changed significantly. Concern about the exclusion of trans people from gay and lesbian political strategies has heightened. Media coverage of trans issues has increased. Emerging trans political formations have begun institutionalizing by creating new nonprofit organizations and professional associations focused specifically on trans issues, work that also produces new terminology, knowledge, and advocacy tools concerning gender identity and expression. These developments are raising important questions about trans politics. What is the relationship of trans political strategy to the strategies of the lesbian and gay rights work that has garnered so much attention in the last three decades? What role should law reform play in trans political strategy? How will forming nonprofits focused on trans issues impact trans people’s lives and trans resistance politics? Who should lead and what forms of leadership should trans politics utilize? What relationship does trans politics have to other political movements and issues? Specifically, how does trans politics interface with anti-racism, feminism, anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, immigration politics, and disability politics?