The Museum of Transology’s collection was built by E-J Scott as a form of curatorial direct action designed to halt the erasure of transcestry. E-J established the MoT with the collection of artefacts they saved from their gender affirming surgery (including human remains, medical documentation and hospital room ephemera).

In 2014, Scott launched the MoT’s community collecting project in Brighton (by the seaside less than an hour from London), thought to be home of the largest population of trans people in the UK. Rather than asking trans, non-binary, and intersex people to go into the museum environment (of which they were sceptical), E-J ran community collecting workshops in queer community spaces. This built trust within the broader trans community in the intent and integrity of the project, and it swiftly grew in scale.