2015 was the year transgender visibility broke through into mainstream culture
Widely covered transition of Caitlyn Jenner and success of the Netflix series Transparent. https://www.frontiersmedia.com/featured-stories/2015/12/29/a-2015-trans-timeline/
Rejection by voters in November 2015 of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, or Proposition 1 in the City of Houston made national headlines because of the way it was defeated by associating transwomen with rapists.
Book takes unique angle of a male-assigned-at-birth person who reflects on his experience with love of transwomen
Author has broad support, including from the celebrity Laverne Cox, academics, and other social influencers
Book will include Foreword by a transwoman author
The author has a Ph.D. in humanities and has translated and introduced Michel Onfray’s The Hedonist Manifesto (Columbia University Press, 2015) 
