Shon Faye and the problem of love

Shon Faye , who is transgender and authored the 2021 book The Transgender Issue , examines the problem of love.

Faye ’s interest is not in the “bad parenting” that preoccupies so much of modern therapy, but the politicised nature of love itself.

Since transitioning, Faye has moved from dating gay men to the straight men and the gay men.

Faye suffers from the murkiness over the nature of our desire.

To be smaller, to be less physically powerful than a man, is to be feminine’ To act otherwise, sexually, is often for their benefit too: “I did what I was told and in service of his desire, acted as the confident aggressor with his body”.