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We list a variety of books by, about, and for transgendered people. Most are available through Amazon.com; others must be ordered directly from the authors. Our links will take you where you need to go.
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
True Selves : Understanding Transsexualism--For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals by Mildred L. Brown and Chloe Ann Rounsley, 1996. An explanation of transsexualism in plain language for families, friends, coworkers and helping professionals. "Without being accademic, this book gets to the grass roots of what it means to be Gender Dysphoric, while offering positive and practical means by which friends and relatives of transsexuals might begin to understand and empathize with the issues facing them" (reader comment).
ART
- Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
- by Loren Cameron (Photographer), 1996. Striking photographic portraits of female-to-male transsexuals, including the author.
BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Dear Sir or Madam: The Autobiography of a Female-To-Male Transsexual
- by Mark Rees, 1999. The story of a British transsexual man in his own words.
- Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual
- by Geri Nettick, Beth Elliot, 1996. The story of a transsexual woman's struggle to be accepted by the lesbian feminist community.
- The Woman I Was Not Born To Be : A Transsexual Journey
- by Aleshia Brevard, 2001.
- As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl
- by John Colapinto, 2000. A well-researched and gripping account of the reassignment of a young boy's gender.
- Crossing: A Memoir
- Deirdre N. McCloskey, 2000. A chronicle of Deirdre McCloskey's transformation from an economist at the and married father of two into the woman she had always wanted to be.
- Dawn: A Charleston Legend
- by Dawn Langley Simmons, 1995. The story of a transsexual British writer who emigrated to America and married a schizophrenic man.
- Man Enough to Be Woman
- by Jayne County and Rupert Smith, 1996. Memoirs of a flamboyant male-to-female punk rocker who decided against sex reassignment surgery.
- Orlando's Sleep: An Autobiography of Gender
- by Jennifer Spry, 1997. Story of an Australian transsexual.
- I Am My Own Woman: The Outlaw Life of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, Berlin's Most Distinguished Transvestite
- by Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, Jean Hollander (Translator), 1995. The story of a crossdresser who, during World War II, murdered his father and has lived openly as a transvestite since.
- Cherry Single: A Transvestite Coming of Age
- by Valory Gravois, 1997. The story of a crossdresser in San Francisco in the 1970s.
- Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
- by Catalina De Erauso, Michele Stepto (Translator), Gabriel Stepto (Translator), Catalina De Erauso, Marjorie Garber, Gabri Stepto, 1997. A brief autobiography of Catalina de Erauso, a nun who spent most of her days as a soldier in the Spanish army in the mid-1600s.
- Passage Through Trinidad: Journal of a Surgical Sex Change
- by Claudine Griggs, 1995. A detailed report of male-to-female sex reassignment surgery from the patient's point of view.
- Prisoner of Gender
- by Stephanie Castle, 1997. A transsexual in the system.
- Second Skins (A Gender and Culture Reader)
- by Jay Prosser, 1998. An array of autobiographical accounts by transsexuals.
CROSSDRESSING
- My Husband Wears My Clothes
- by Peggy J. Rudd, EdD, 1999. A definition and discussion of crossdressing from the partner's point of view.
- Crossdressing With Dignity
- by Peggy J Rudd, EdD, 1999. An informative addition to Dr. Rudd's first book.
- The Bliss of Becoming One! : Integrating 'Feminine' Feelings into the Male Psyche Mainstreaming the Gender Community
- by Rachel Miller, 1996. An attempt to correct inaccurate information about transvestites.
- Crossdressers: And Those Who Share Their Lives
- by Peggy J. Rudd, 1995. An intimate view of the lives of crossdressers and the significant people in their lives.
- Crossing the Stage: Controversies on Cross-Dressing
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by Lesley Ferris (Editor), 1993. A collection of essays focusing on cross-dressing in theatre, cabaret, opera and dance.
- Girlfriend: Men, Women, and Drag
- by Holly Brubach, Michael James O'Brien (Photographer), Michael J. C'Brien (Photographer), 1999. An exploration of drag in major cities around the world.
- Miss Vera's Finishing School
- by Veronica Vera, 1997. An informative textbook for readers who want practical advice about all things femme.
- Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Crossdress
- by Magnus Hirschfeld, Michael A. Lombardi-Nash (Translator), Vern L. Bullough, 1991. A classic written in 1910 by one of the founders of the study of sexuality.
- The Man in the Red Velvet Dress
- by J. J. Allen, 1996. A look inside the world of crossdressing from the perspective of a crossdresser.
- Transformations : Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them
- by Mariette Pathy Allen, 1990. A wide variety of photographs and personal stories from the point
of view of crossdressers, spouses, and children.
EMPLOYMENT
- Transsexual Workers: An Employer's Guide
- by Janis Walworth, 1998. Designed for employers, managers, human resources personnel, implementers of employee assistance programs, and others in a position to make workplace decisions about how to handle a transsexual employee's transition from one sex to the other.
- Working with a Transsexual: A Guide for Coworkers
- by Janis Walworth, 1999. A short, easy-to-read source of information for people who have a transsexual in their workplace.
- Training Tough Topics
- edited by Liz Winfeld, 2000. Provides HR professionals and diversity trainers with materials for training employees about difficult workplace issues, including transgender.
FAMILY
- Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up With Gay, Lesbian, and
Transgender Parents
- by Noelle Howey (Editor), Ellen Samuels (Editor), Margarethe Cammermeyer, Dan Savage (Preface), 2000. Stories by children of gay, lesbian and transgendered parents illustrate the difficulties that challenge them in a society that is not always understanding of differences.
- Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved
Ones
- by Mary Boenke, 1999. Collected experiences of loved ones of transgendered folks.
FICTION
- Stone Butch Blues: A Novel
- by Leslie Feinberg, 1993. Novel about a butch lesbian's journey into transgenderism.
- The Partnership
- by Stephanie Castle, Perceptions Press. Two male-to-female transsexuals from different backgrounds become friends.
- A Tale of Two Wives
- by Stephanie Castle, Perceptions Press. The wives of two high-society male-to-female transsexuals react differently, with very different results.
- Tales from Cascadia
- by Stephanie Castle, Perceptions Press. A collection of short stories with transsexual themes.
- Shadows in the City
- by Stephanie Castle, Perceptions Press. A male-to-female transsexual encounters difficulties living on the streets of two Canadian cities.
- Death of a Transvestite
- by Edward D. Wood, Ed, Jr. Wood, 1999. The story of a crossdresser on death row whose last wish is to die in drag.
FTM
- Transmen and Ftms : Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities
- by Jason Cromwell, 1999.
- Transsexualism in Society: A Sociology of Male-To-Female Transsexuals
- by Frank Lewins, 1995. A parent of a male-to-female transsexual writes about transsexualism in Australia.
- The Drag King Book
- by Del LaGrace Volcano (Photographer), Judith Jack Halberstam, 1999.
- FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society
- by Holly Devor, 1997. In-depth interviews and research into the development of female-to-male transsexual identity.
GENDER THEORY
- Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism
- by Pat Califia, 1997. A look at transgenderism through the stories of pioneers and contemporary activists.
- Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender
- by Riki Anne Wilchins, 1997.
- Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
- by Kate Bornstein, 1995. A witty look at gender boundaries, fluidity, and definition in lesbian and straight communities.
- Gender Blending
- by Bonnie Bullough, Vern Bullough, James Elias (editors), 1997. A collection of papers from the first International Congress on Cross-Dressing, Sex, and Gender.
- Male Femaling: A Grounded Theory Approach to Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing
- by Richard Ekins, 1997. A presentation of a theory and its implications for transgender studies and for the analysis of sex and gender.
- Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing
- by Richard Ekins (Editor), David King (Editor), 1996. A look at the historical construction of transgender and its legitimacy in modern culture from a primarily psychoanalytic point of view.
- Transvestites and Transsexuals: Toward a Theory of Cross-Gender Behavior (Perspectives in Sexuality)
- by Richard F. Docter, 1988. A study of self-identified crossdressers.
- My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
- by Kate Bornstein, 1997. A collage of simple exercises, quizzes, puzzles, and essay questions that systematically break down our ingrained ideas about how women and men should act.
- Who's Really from Venus? The Tale of Two Genders
- by Peggy J. Rudd, Ed.D., 1998. An attempt to unscramble the mystery of why both men and women possess masculine and feminine personality components.
- S/He - Changing Sex and Changing Clothes (Dress, Body & Culture)
- by Claudine Griggs, 1998.
- Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities
- by Dawn Atkins (Editor), 1998. First person accounts of all sorts of body image issues.
- Transgender Issue (Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol 4, No 2, 1998)
- by Susan Stryker (Editor), 1998.
- Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina De Erauso
- by Sherry M. Velasco, 2001. An analysis of the many ways in which the "Lieutenant Nun" has been constructed, interpreted, marketed, and consumed by European, Latin American, and the US cultures from the seventeenth century to the present.
- Trans-Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
- by Leslie Feinberg, 1999. A good introduction to Feinberg's ideas about the complexities of gender expression.
- Reclaiming Genders
- Transsexual Grammars at the Fin De Siecle by Kate More (Editor), Stephen Whittle (Editor), 2000.
HISTORY / SOCIOLOGY
- Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Rupaul
- by Leslie Feinberg, 1997. An illustrated history of transgendered people in a wide range of centuries and cultures.
- Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures (Between Men--Between Women)
- by Evelyn Blackwood (Editor), Saskia E. Wieringa (Editor), 1999.
- Female Masculinity
- by Judith Halberstam, 1998. A survey of masculine women from the 19th-century to today.
- Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures : Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
- by Sabrina P. Ramet , 1997. A collection of essays that takes a cross-cultural and cross-historical look at gender change.
- Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India
- by Serena Nanda, 1998. A cultural study of the Hijras of India, a religious community of men who dress and act like women.
- Transgender Nation
- by Gordene Olga MacKenzie, 1994. An examination of transsexualism in the context of an intolerant society.
- In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage
- by Anne Bolin, 1988. An absorbing account of the sociocultural aspects of transition between sexes.
INTERSEX
- Intersex in the Age of Ethics
- by Alice Domurat Dreger (Editor), 1999. A collection of essays by professionals and intersex activists about the advisability of early surgical intervention.
- Lessons from the Intersexed
- by Suzanne Kessler, 1998. A deconstruction of the medical model of gender, with extensive notes, glossary, and bibliography.
- Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex
- by Alice Domurat Dreger, 1998. A chronicle of the medical diagnosis and treatment of hermaphroditism from the perspective of both the subject and the medical community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Herculine Barbin : Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite
- by Herculine Barbin, Michel Foucault, Richard McDougall (Translator), 1980. A hermaphrodite's memoirs discovered by Michel Foucault in the archives of the French Department of Public Hygiene.
LEGAL
- Legal Queeries: Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Legal Studies
- by Leslie J. Moran (Editor), Daniel Monk (Editor), Sarah
Beresford (Editor), 1999.
- Translegalities: A Legal Guide for MTF's
- by Spencer Bergstedt, Esq, 1997. Discusses document changes, marriage, divorce, wills, employment, medical care, and more. May be ordered by sending a check for $27 ($25 + $2 shipping and handling) to Spencer Bergstedt, Attorney at Law, 1211 Smith Tower, 506 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104.
- Translegalities: A Legal Guide for FTM's
- by Spencer Bergstedt, Esq, 1997. Discusses document changes, marriage, divorce, wills, employment, medical care, and more. May be ordered by sending a check for $27 ($25 + $2 shipping and handling) to Spencer Bergstedt, Attorney at Law, 1211 Smith Tower, 506 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104.
MEDICAL
- Transgender Care: Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information, and Personal Accounts
- by Gianna E. Israel, Donald E. Tarver II, MD, 1997.
- Masculinizing Hormonal Therapy for the Transgendered
- by Sheila Kirk, MD, 1997.
- Feminizing Hormonal Therapy for the Transgendered
- by Sheila Kirk, MD, 1999.
- Medical, Legal and Workplace Issues for the Transsexual
- by Sheila Kirk, MD, 1995.
- Physician's Guide to Transgendered Medicine
- by Sheila Kirk, MD, 1997.
- Identity Management in Transsexualism
- by Dallas Denny, MA, 1994. An explanation of how to make name and gender changes on various legal documents.
PSYCHOLOGISTS' PERSPECTIVES
- Confessions of a Gender Defender: A Psychologist's Reflections on Life Among the Transgendered
- by Randi Ettner, 1996. Easily readable vignettes by a psychotherapist who treats transsexual clients.
- Current Concepts in Transgender Identity (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, Vol 976)
- by Dallas Denny (Editor), 1998.
- Gender Loving Care: A Guide to Counseling Gender-Variant Clients
- by Randi Ettner, George R. Brown, 1999. An overview of gender identity disorders and insights about transgender counseling.
- Trans-X-U-All: The Naked Difference
- by Katrina Fox, Tracie O'Keefe, 1997. A transsexual clinical hypnotherapist, psychotherapist & counsellor shares her special knowledge of transsexualism.
- Transsexuals: Candid Answers to Private Questions
- by Gerald Ramsey, PhD, 1996. Information about transsexualism presented in a question-and-answer format.
TRANSSEXUALISM
- The Transsexual's Survival Guide: To Transition & Beyond
- by Joann Altman Stringer, 1990. A compendium of practical advice on transition-related issues.
- Changing Sex
- by Bernice L. Hausman, 1995. A historical narrative and bibliography of early transsexual story and theory.
- The Uninvited Dilemma: A Question of Gender
- by Kim Elizabeth Stuart, 1991. A clinical study of transsexualism.
- The Transsexual's Survival Guide II: To Transition & Beyond for Family, Friends, & Employers
- by Joanne Altman Stringer, 1992.
YOUTH
- Mom, I Need To Be A Girl
- by Just Evelyn, 1998. A great book for any parent of a transgendered child of any age written by a loving mom.
- Social Services With Transgendered Youth
- by Gerald P. Mallon (Editor), 2000. The thoughts and perspectives of articulate trangendered
people who inform professionals working with transgendered youth.
NOT RECOMMENDED
- The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male
- by Janice G. Raymond, 1994. No book has done more harm to the transgender community than the first printing of this title in 1979. Beacon Press reprinted it in 1994 without revision. If you really want to read it, borrow it or find a used copy.
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