155 CHAPTER 6 The Pervert on Your Couch Psychoanalysis and Trans/Sexual Health TOBIAS B.D. WIGGINS As a scholar of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, I ofen fnd myself in the HQ section of the library. Tose familiar with the Library of Congress (2017) sorting system will perhaps recognize HQ: the letter H is the broad classifcation for the Social Sciences and the adjacent Q a subclass for “Te Family. Marriage. Women.” Despite its taxonomical innocuity, a ftting amount of salaciousness has been hidden away within these domestic, matrimonial, and mono-gendered subject catalogues. On the shelves between HQ12 and HQ449, a small grouping ofcially classifed as “Sexual Life,” one will fnd all manner of writing and theory dedicated to queerness, transgender people, 1 feminism, sex, and sexuality. And although many of these subject felds have evolved into prolifc, legitimized disciplines, with some even being carefully folded into systems of neoliberal tolerance (Duggan 2002), they are 1 This chapter uses both “transgender” and “trans” as umbrella terms which encompass, but are not limited to, identifcations like Two Spirit, transsexual, genderqueer, agender, gender non-conforming, trans woman and trans man. Not all those listed under this umbrella may identify as “trans,” however. For example, Two Spirit people have written extensively about the colonial implications of the language of “trans” identity (Driskill et al. 2011). In some cases, the word “transsexual” has also been intentionally used in this chapter, to emphasize a particular rhetorical history associated with trans subjectivity and gender panic. In other words, transsexual is both an identity, and a medicalized psychiatric nosology that carries with it the legacies of the field’s gender anxieties and subsequent attempts to corral gender non-conforming people. “Trans/sexual” has been used as shorthand for trans people’s sexuality.