Abstract

In analyses of Kinsey et al’s work, the sexuality continuum figures large in the literature, not because they believed that people were able to be place upon it, but because of subsequent theories surrounding their work. In this paper I draw on some of the tensions in naming trans* within a continuum model to pursue de-stigmatization of trans embodiment. I will argue that the claims to any nodal positions on an essentialized continuum misrepresents the lives of (trans*) people. Moreover, I will illustrate that this essentialism implicates those with intersex conditions without due attention the binary logics underpinning their claims