Trans Care

Hil Malatino asks what it looks like for trans people to support and tend to each other, and how neglect or refusal of care has marked trans lives. The book also traces the caregiving practices trans individuals and communities have built in response to hostility and structural exclusion.

Malatino enters existing debates about care work and care ethics, which they argue have often been framed in ways that reinforce conventional family models and gender roles that assume cisgender lives. Their central claim is that understanding how trans people endure and thrive demands rethinking the very mechanics of care.

Written for readers interested in gender studies, ethics and trans life, the book treats care as both a practical labor and a moral question, approaching it through the lens of trans experience.