
Print and Web Trans* Resources
List of Trans* Print Resources:
Auto/Biography
Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs by Jonathan Ames (2005)
Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein (1994)
She’s Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan (2003)
Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green (2004)
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman of Feminism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano (2007)
Both Sides Now: One Man’s Journey Through Womanhood by Dhillon Khosla (2006)
Conundrum: From James to Jan—an extraordinary personal narrative of transsexualism by Jan Morris (1974)
Dear Sir or Madam: The autobiography of a female-to-male transsexual by Mark Rees (1996)
The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male by Max Wolf Valerio (2006)
What Becomes You by Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz (2007)
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2007)
Waiting to Land: A (Mostly) Political Memoir, 1985-2008 by Martin B. Duberman (2009)
One Freak Show by Lynn Breedlove (2009)
A Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate Bornstein (2012)
Fiction
Stone Butch Blues: A Novel by Leslie Feinberg (1993)
Hermaphrodeity: The Autobiography of a Poet by Alan Friedman (1972)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson (1987)
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (1928)
Freak Show by James St. James (2007)
Non-Fiction
My Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein (1998)
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman of Feminism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano (2007)
“Transsexuals’ Narrative Construction of the ‘True Self’” by Douglas Mason-Schrock (Social Psychology Quarterly, 1996)
Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers by Cris Beam (2007)
Sex Changes: Transgender Politics, 2nd ed. by Patrick Califia (2nd Ed. 2003)
Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex by Pat Califia (2nd Ed. 2000)
Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality by Jay Prosser (1998)
“The ‘Empire’ Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto” by Sandy Stone (1996)
The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals by Dean Kotula (2002)
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts (1987)
Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People by Joan Roughgarden (2009)
List of Trans* Links:
GLAAD’s Transgender Resources: http://www.glaad.org/transgender
Trans Education: http://transeducation.wordpress.com/
Robyn Ochs — Teacher, Writer, Activist: http://www.robynochs.com/resources/Transgender.html
The Gender Book: http://www.thegenderbook.com
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