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It explores connections (tense and otherwise) between trans health and feminist health, and it brings critical theorizing of feminist health practices to bear on how trans health is currently fashioned, situated, and represented. This article offers an empirical and theoretical inquiry into how the emergent field of trans health can be productively read with and through feminist health formations. The key question that emerges is whether liberal humanist tolerance defies horror and hostility or whether tolerance discourse creates its own gendered and sexualized monsters suitable for late-modern, flexible regimes of governmentality. Trans people bring into question this contradiction, thereby challenging the foundations of normative subjectivity. This subjectivity-constituting contradiction lies at the core of liberal tolerance discourse. It also assumes, however, that identities, such as trans identity, issue from an essence or inner truth to be found in the person. In accordance with liberal norms and values, tolerance promotes individual choice and autonomy: the individual’s freedom of identity. The point of departure is liberal tolerance discourse, as analysed by Wendy Brown, in which the threatening ‘others’ are being regulated in order to prevent the social order from being destroyed from within. If we cut soda consumption by 40 percent or 50 percent, Michael Pollan says, "the obesity epidemic would pretty much go away.The article explores the way in which trans people represent a cultural ‘difference’ that has to be managed in liberal-democratic societies of today. Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk. Eat some foods that have been predigested by bacteria or fungi.Ĩ. If it came from a plant, eat it if it was made in a plant, don't.ħ. Put a vase of flowers on the table, and everything will taste better.Ħ. When you eat real food, you don't need rules.ĥ. If we cut soda consumption by 40 or 50 percent, Michael Pollan says, "the obesity epidemic would pretty much go away."Įxcerpted from the expanded edition of Michael Pollan's Food Rules: An Eater's Manual ($23.95, Penguin Press, 240 pp.) available Nov. Testament to the strength of his message ­- and what can happen when a really smart guy hits a nerve with popular culture, the talk sold out months ago. The Progressive Forum brings Michael Pollan to Houston for the first time Thursday.