Winner, Sexuality and Politics Book Award - American Political Science AssociationFinalist, PROSE Award - Government and PoliticsWhat the evolving fight for transgender rights reveals about government power, regulations, and the lawEvery government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for sex classification. Many transgender people find themselves in the bizarre situation of having different sex classifications on different documents. Whether you can change your legal sex to "F" or "M" (or more recently "X") depends on what state you live in, what jurisdiction you were born in, and what government agency you're dealing with.