Even though the lifetime prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in trans populations is around 50 percent (Messinger and Guadalupe-Diaz 2020), there is an alarming absence of trans-specific and trans-inclusive research and interventions to address IPV. For sociologist Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz, this absence raises two important questions: 1) Under what conditions are trans people's experiences of IPV erased? and 2) To what extent does intimate partner violence produce “genderist” systems? Answering these questions first requires a historical tracing of social scientific understandings of IPV, which stem from 1970s feminist activism and scholarship that understood gender in binary-essentialist terms. This work resulted in legal and institutional adoption of cis- and heteronormative approaches to domestic violence work (as it was called at the time) that continue to center white cisgender women in discourses on the gendered nature of violence in romantic relationships. Transgressed: Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Lives invites us...

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