Particularly, the book notes how some white trans people reached starhood, like Christine Jorgenson (amongst the first trans people to undergo gender confirmation surgery), and immediately began to achieve a level of acceptability in society by appealing to dominant norms - such as domesticity, respectability, and heterosexuality - in order to "fit in". The book explores the history of Black trans people in the US, and how they have often been ignored in favour of white, more "acceptable" figures. Black trans scholar Doctor C Riley Snorton has published a new book, titled Black on Both Sides, A Racial History of Trans Identity.
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