Susan Stryker's second edition of 'Transgender History'

   There was a second edition of the Susan Stryker's Transgender History in 2017.

Despite what Stryker said in a comment on my initial review that the title 'irked' her she did take the opportunity of a new edition to change it.

She also ignored my friendly criticism re omissions and/or errors.

Sally Barry, said to be Benjamin's first trans patient (if we don't count Carla van Crist and Otto Spengler) is still not named.   Okay it is a reference name rather than her real name, but it is used elsewhere and allows the reader to connect other discussions about her.

Mayhem and surgeon Elmer Belt are mentioned in adjacent sentences but there is still no mention of Belt's way of getting around the problem by leaving the testicles inside the patient.  

Stryker still describes Jorgensen's surgeries in Copenhagen as a "successful genital transformation" despite it being well-known that Jorgensen at that time had only an orchiectomy and penectomy.  She did not have vaginoplasty until several years later and that in the US.   

The US trans women who had gender surgery before Jorgensen, Pussy Katt and Hedy Jo Star, are not mentioned. Stryker briefly mentioned the largely black drags balls in Chicago and New York that gave trans women somewhere to go, but she fails to mention Alfred Finnie and Phil Black who did so much of the work of getting them going.

Stryker remains the only writer who claims that Angela Douglas' TAO stood for Transsexual Activist Organization.  Kay Brown did originally make the same error.  Angela's letter to Kay includes: "I did, and got involed with the Gay Liberation Front, took part in afew protests, then formed the Transsexual Action organization with Canary Conn (Canary, Story Of ATranssexual, bantam books 74) This group is discussed in the Gay Militants, Stein and Day 72 and was not the 'Transsexual Activists organization.'"  All others say that it was Transsexual Action Organization - See especially Susana Pena. "Gender and Sexuality in Latina/o Miami". 

The erasure of José Sarria and the Imperial Court system is maintained, and Virginia Prince despite her well-known transgenderphobia is over valued.

What has Stryker got against Barbara de Lamere? - bisexual and the only member of the Queens Liberation Front to proceed to completion surgery.   Stryker insists on still referring to her by a temporary nom d'étage that she used 1968-9 only, that is Bunny Eisenhower.   To Stryker she is a 'heterosexual transvestite' - to the rest of she is a bisexual trans woman. 

Oh, and I nearly forgot. Stryker still has nothing to say about the kerfuffle aroused by Micheal Bailey's The Man who would be Queen although she still quietly lists the book in her further reading section. How can a book be about trans activism and totally not say anything about the ideas that caused the biggest and loudest activism in the last 20 years.