How do you understand the notion of trans-speciation? What does Hayward mean when referring to the starfish as being “more than a metaphor”?
Starfish in this work stands for transsexual transformation. Cutting off a part of a starfish draws an analogy with the operation that trans girls go through to find themselves in the "right" body. In this case, the starfish is "more than a metaphor" because it denotes a transition experience