Trans Sex challenges limiting models of gender-affirming care that focus on resolving gender dysphoria, and preserving sexual function, or highlight sexual losses that may arise as a result of transition pathways. Grounded in social justice, somatics, and queer theory, this book offers a pleasure-positive approach to working with trans and gender expansive individuals. Building on the groundbreaking concepts introduced in the award-winning first edition, the second edition features new frameworks such as gender-pleasure and a fresh set of experiential activities and illustrative vignettes to bring theory to practice. The final chapter features a new set of contributing trans and gender expansive authors who work at the intersections of sexuality and gender.
This book is designed to be accessible to a range of readers. Mental health and medical providers will be able to harness creative strategies to enhance their practice and become more imaginative, ethically curious providers. Trans and gender expansive folks and allies will find tools and strategies for queering sex, circumventing limiting understandings of the erotic, and opening a potential universe of pleasure that celebrates the polymorphous perversity of our bodies.
Lucie Fielding, PhD, LMHC, LPC (she/they) is a white, queer, trans misogyny-affected femme, and a therapist licensed in Virginia and Washington State. She received her MA in Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute (2018). They also hold a PhD in French from Northwestern University (2008), where she specialized in histories of sexualities and erotic literature. Their background in literature and history attunes them to the many ways that image, metaphor, and cultural scripts shape and inform the narratives we carry with us as we move through the world as well as how these narratives inscribe themselves on our bodies and form and inform how we erotically embody. In addition to their work as a therapist, Lucie is a sex and kink educator and a workshop facilitator. She is the author of the book Trans Sex: Nurturing Trans Erotic Embodiment and Gender-Pleasure (2nd Ed). The first edition of Trans Sex (2021) was shortlisted for a 2022 Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender-Nonfiction category and was awarded the 2022 AASECT Book Award (Book for Sexuality Professionals), the 2024 SSTAR Health Professionals Book Award, and the 2024 APA Division 44 Distinguished Book Award. You can find out more about Lucie at: https://luciefielding.com or follow them on Instagram (@sexbeyondbinaries) or BlueSky (@sexbeyondbinaries.bsky.social).
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