Terrifyingly normal: using sequential art to increase understanding of gender transition

While the process of gender transition has only been medically defined for fifty years, gender variant persons have existed in different cultures and at various times. Radical feminists, medical experts, transgender activists and the general public all seem to have different ideas about what gender transition is, and its impact upon society and the people who undergo it. Exponents of queer and post-modern theory often incorporate and appropriate the lives and experiences of such people for their own ends. Such a diversity of opinion and belief often seems to obscure the individual facts of the process. The purpose of this exegesis is to examine how the medium of sequential art can be used effectively as a means of increasing an understanding of the process of gender transition at both an impersonal (authoritative) and personal level.