This is an interesting short story collection focussing on fantasy and sci-fi stories with trans characters. There‘s a wide variety of trans stories, from the clearly defined featuring both characters that transitioned through means of our current modern medicine and some through magical or futuristic means, to the allegorical where transness is not the focal point and only implied. I liked that there was such a big variety of stories.
I found myself enjoying quite a few of the stories here such as the sci-fi time travelling story „The Shape of my Name“ by Nino Cipri, the unsettling sci-fi apocalypse „The Petals Abide“ by Benjanun Sriduangkaew, the body-switching war novel „into the waters I rode down“ and the gothic short „The Librarian‘s Dilemma“.
Unfortunately as is the case with many trans anthologies I‘ve picked up recently there is definitely a skew towards transmasculinity in this one as well. Some of the nonbinary characters never have their agab mentioned, but those that do are only ever afab. Furthermore only one story „into the waters I rode down“ features an explicitly trans female character, who mentions her transition. „Where Monsters Dance“ has a trans woman LI (but unfortunately her role in the plot is minimal and she mainly serves as a damsel) and The Scaper‘s Muse features a sci-fi transition from a formerly male body to a female one, but as the character has repeatedly changed their body and gender through sci-fi means beforehand I would not necessarily claim them as a trans woman. I sincerely hope that that is something that has been improved upon in the future releases.