We both laughed in pleasure

Many of the insights of this issue, then, might be obvious to anyone who lives a trans life. Indeed, as Cassius Adair and Aren Aizura point out in their contribution to this special issue, the academic literature on trans sexualities has tended to assume the inevitability of trans-cis partnerings, even as anyone with a basic familiarity with past and present trans scenes knows that this assumption cannot hold.

When we proposed this special issue in late October of 2019, it was clear to us that t4t as a concept and practice organizes some of the most salient features of trans life and cultural/knowledge production but that, at the same, it is largely underthought and untheorized within the interdisciplinary spaces of trans studies. But if you derive your sense of trans worlds from academic writing and/or popular culture, this would be easy enough to not know, fixated as these genres tend to be on the dramas of trans people negotiating cis worlds of sense. Zoey, in Torrey Peter's Infect Your Friends and Loved OnesĪnecdotally, many of us are (and have been) t4t.