A review by caseythecanadianlesbrarian
The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard by Tom Léger

4.0

I was pretty excited to pick up the anthology The Collection, which brings together quite the diverse group of writers all creating narratives, to paraphrase editors Tom Leger and Riley Macleod, featuring trans characters as protagonists, rather than comic relief, or a character used as a tool to further the plot of a cisgender main character. The Collection aims to present trans characters as agents of their own destiny. This anthology has been a long time coming, and a fantastic venue for up-and-coming trans writers, although MacLeod and Leger are explicit in that they “did not police the genders of the authors themselves, and as of the date of publication have not formally inquired about their chromosomes, their genitals, or how many trucks/dresses they own.”...

See the full review at my website: http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/black-holes-tim-hortons-chat-rooms-and-competitive-eating-just-a-taste-of-the-random-awesomeness-that-is-the-trans-fiction-anthology-the-collection/