This book is a legal and political intervention into a contemporary debate concerning the appropriateness of sexual offence prosecutions brought against young gender non-conforming people for so-called âgender identity fraud'. It comes down squarely against prosecution. To that end it offers a series of principled objections based both on liberal principles and arguments derived from queer and feminist theories. Thus prosecution will be challenged as criminal law overreach and as a spectacular example of legal inconsistency but also as indicative of a failure to grasp the complexity of sexual desire and its disavowal. In particular the book will think through the concepts of consent harm and deception and their legal application to these speciïc forms of intimacy. In doing so it will reveal how cisnormativity frames the legal interpretation of each and how this serves to preclude more marginal perspectives. Beyond law the book takes up the ethical challenge of the non-disclosure of gender history. Rather than dwelling on this omission it argues that we ought to focus on a cisgender demand to know as the proper object of ethical inquiry. Finally and as an act of legal and ethical re-imagination the book offers a queer counter-judgment to R v McNally the only case involving a gender non-conforming defendant so far to have come before the Court of Appeal. . Language: English