This project argues that Edmund Spenser’s View of the Present State of Ireland elaborates a fantasy of successful conquest that depends upon a transition narrative. View includes a vision of Irish pacification through transfeminization. This narrative complicates scholarly understandings of colonial contact and conquest. Instead of presenting binary gender as the desirable and civil end of the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland, Spenser’s View looks to a fantasy of transition informed by the mobile languages of misogyny. Where Maria Lugones’ intervention in the coloniality school troubles the field’s assumption that binary gender is autochthonous, this project challenges the idea that colonization only offers a detransition narrative. Rather than offering a view of a fatal encounter between English binary gender and the gender variance of the wider world, Spenser’s View locates a fantasy of transition within colonial practice—a fantasy that makes apparent the coloniality of transmisogyny.