Myth of the Wrong Body by Miquel Misse (2022, Hardcover)

The Myth of the Wrong BodyAuthor(s): Miquel Misse, Frances Riddle\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Polity Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509551873, 978-1509551873\nSynopsis\nThe most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed. But in the view of the sociologist and trans activist Miguel Miss, this narrative is a harmful myth. It is rooted in a medical paradigm that typically leads to medical intervention to the use of hormones and surgical operations. By proposing a particular solution (modifying ones body), doctors and psychiatrists make it difficult for trans people to overcome malaise about their body in other ways and prevent them from recognizing the burden of social norms.\n\n Drawing on his own personal experience, Miss makes the case for a different way of thinking about trans embodiment.