Through a careful reading of a mid-20th-century button imposed on cross-dressers in Hawaii in light of recent U.S. policies regarding gender, Meyer finds hope in reversing discourse.

Mixed forms are crucial not only to the understanding of khuntha, mukhannath, and khanith communities, but also to the very scaffolding of Almarri’s paper. 

This essay examines an instance of media activism by members of a Karachi-based organization run by and for nonnormatively gendered people who are known as khwaja siras.