Miquel Missé, Paul Preciado, Elizabeth Duval and Lucas Platero are just some of the many trans voices keeping non-fiction in Spain alive today. Their texts span the great debates of our day: depathologization; the monolithic narrative of gender transition; hormones and surgery; binarism; cishet normativity; the intersection of race, class, nationality, disability or seropositivity; even the current ubiquity of all things ‘trans’ as a marketing buzzword. They are trans writers, of course, but they are also simply writers, full stop. 

As Missé writes in Transexualidades. Otras miradas posibles (Egales, 2013), the problem may be that the focus should not be on what is trans, but on transphobia. This argument is shared by Jack Halberstam (Trans*. Egales, 2018), Micah Rajunov and Scott Dunae (Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity. Columbia University Press, 2019), the latter, with emphasis on those people who, contrary to all medical and social prognosis, do not feel like girls or boys.