In January 2017, the cover of _National Geographic_ declared a “gender revolution.” Embodying this revolution are “80 young people” from around the world, interviewed by reporters “for a future-facing perspective on gender” (Goldberg 2017, 9). Seven of these young people adorn the cover, expressions defiant, their various identities signposted: intersex nonbinary, transgender male and female, bi-gender, androgynous, male. At the literal center of what this issue describes as “the shifting landscape of gender” is Eli—at age twelve, the youngest and most childlike in appearance of the cover models—a self-identified trans male who stands on a podium, towering over his cohort. The trans child, as produced by _National Geographic_, is a symbolic figurehead for the gender revolution—but one, as the issue goes on to illustrate, who struggles within persistently oppressive and often violent global gender regimes. In _Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century_ (2018), Tey Meadow notes that _trans_, an abbreviation of _transgender_, “has historically been used as an umbrella term” (266) for a range of gender identities and expressions. _Trans_ may encompass people with nonbinary relationships to gender; “those whose psychological gender is in direct opposition with their chromosomal or biological sex”; individuals who have transitioned between genders...