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""This is not queer theory. This is my flesh and blood,"" writes Oliver Radclyffe in this spirited polemic on trans identity. Presenting his careful logic with lyrical prose, Radclyffe disrupts -- intentionally, pointedly, playfully -- the current structure of popular debates on gender. With Adult Human Male, he rejects the academic argot of theoretical constructs and, instead, recenters the trans body as fundamental to a humanist inquiry into identity. Radclyffe posits that the cis perspective -- from which nearly all gender discussions begin -- is anything but neutral and thus demands both interrogation and expansion so that trans identity is not viewed through a hostile lens. Adult Human Male marks an important advance in how to understand, discuss, and respect the trans experience.

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The only daughter of an upper-class English family, Oliver Radclyffe tried to follow all the rules: attending boarding school, earning a university degree, marrying a suitable man, giving birth to four children, and moving to the Connecticut suburbs. Then, he realized that he was not a heterosexual woman - nor actually a woman at all. Oliver is part of a new wave of transgender writers unafraid to address the complex nuances of transition, examining how gender identity, sexual orientation, feminist allegiance, social class, and family history overlap. His work has appeared in The New York Times and Electric Literature.

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