In 2019, Liam Konemann began collating a running list of transphobia he encountered in everyday life. Thinking that the list might act as an appendix to a piece of journalism, he logged, categorised and dated dozens of entries - first idly and then with increasing fervour. As 'The Appendix' grew, however, Konemann's mental health began to spiral. Abandoning the list, he instead turned his attention to more pressing questions. How can we live in a world so set against us? And how can we uncouple transness from representations of misery? Moving from Australia to the UK, through personal experience and the cultural landscape, The Appendix seeks the beauty and pleasure of transmasculinity in an adverse climate. At once a burning critique of the British media's ghoulish obsession with trans people and a stake in the ground for gender euphoria, Konemann's nonfiction debut captures the highs and the lows of the transmasculine experience. Newly repackaged for 2026, the revised edition of The Appendix looks back at the original work as a product of a time that already feels a world away. With British trans freedom on a backslide, and in the face of a political climate more charged than ever, Konemann returns to The Appendix to ask how transmasculinity is accessed and maintained in a hostile world.
