 A number of scholars have noted the complex interplay of shared and distinct concerns between trans, feminist, and queer frameworks (Namaste 1996 and 2009; Prosser 1998; Heyes 2003; Salamon 2010a; Stryker 2004). Emerging in the 1990s as a distinct field of academic inquiry, trans studies shares many of the intellectual roots of queer theory yet also departs from queer studies through its explicit focus on trans experience, including both non-monolithic nature of that experience and the importance of trans people speaking for themselves about their own lives. Likewise, while many of the theoretical frameworks and figures at the heart of Continental feminism are present in trans studies (e.g., post-structuralism, phenomenology, Foucauldian genealogy, materialism), there have also been important critiques of how Continental feminist approaches can ignore or sideline trans experience. Significantly, many of the philosophers working in Continental feminism and trans studies cited in this entry cross inter- and intra-disciplinary boundaries.