In 2020 trans* organizations across global contexts found government and state support during the coronavirus pandemic to be considerably lacking (Summers 2020; Goshal 2020) and thus sought to provide the absent financial, social, and health-care support for trans* people (APTN 2020; ILGA World 2020).1 At the same time, trans* people all over the world have identified a prominent rise in transphobic rhetoric and legislation (Reid 2021; Deliso 2021). In the United Kingdom, the Bell v. Tavistock (2020) high court ruling, which asserted that under-sixteens were not able to consent to prescribed puberty blockers, and the governmental failure to amend the 2004 Gender Recognition Act were codifications of a deeply transphobic political atmosphere (BBC 2020; Murphy and Brooks 2020).2
In this atmosphere—the pandemic, on the one hand, and the increase in the official writing of transphobia into state and public policy,...
