Books
List of books that may be informative and helpful.
Biography/Memoir
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The Woman I WAS Born To Be by Aleshia Brevard
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Woman I Was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual Journey by Aleshia Brevard
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Wrapped in Blue: A Journey of Discovery by Donna Rose
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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
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Crossing: A Memoir by Deirdre N. McCloskey
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Becoming a Visible Man by Jameson Green
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Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
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Branded T by Rosalyne Blumenstein
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Mark 947: A Life Shaped by God, Gender and Force of Will by Calpernia Sarah Addams
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Both Sides Now: One Man's Journey Through Womanhood by Dhillon Khosla
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The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male by Max Wolf Valerio
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My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser by Helen Boyd
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She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband by Helen Boyd
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Alice in Genderland: A Crossdresser Comes of Age by Richard J. Novic M.D.
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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods—My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Noelle Howey
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Second Serve by Renee Richards
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Conundrum by Jan Morris
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Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography by Christine Jorgensen
Educational
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True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism by Mildred L. Brown and Chloe Ann Roundsley
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Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families by Arlene Istar Lev
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Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience by Matt Kailey
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The Lazy Crossdresser by Charles Anders
Intersex
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As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
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Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex by Alice Domurat Dreger
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Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self by Sharon E. Preves
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Lessons from the Intersexed by Suzanne J. Kessler
Transgender History
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Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg
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How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz
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Transgender History (Seal Studies) by Susan Stryker
Anthropological
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Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives by Sabrina Ramet
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Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native America by Will Roscoe
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The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe
Fiction
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Tran-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
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Luna By Julie Anne Peters
Other Published Resources
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Current Transgender Bestsellers on Amazon.com
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IFGE Sychronicity Bookstore on IFGE.org
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Books Page of the Intersex Society of North America on ISNA.org
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Published Resources on Transsexual Road Map
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Magazines and other Publications on Susan's Place
To Be Classified/Work-in-Progress
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Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam
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In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives by Judith Halberstam
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Girlfriend: Men, Women, and Drag by Holly Brubach
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Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History by Gilbert Herdt (Editor)
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Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities by Jason Cromwell
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The Woman I Was Not Born to Be: A Transsexual Journey by Aleshia Brevard
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The Gender Frontier by Marriete Pathy Allen and Grady T. Turner
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Confessions of a Gender Defender: A Psychologist's Reflections on Life Among the Transgendered by Randi Ettner
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In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage by Anne Bolin
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Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Loren Cameron (Photographer)
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Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits of Duality by Holly Devor
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Gender Blending: Transvestism (Cross-Dressing), Gender Heresy, Androgyny, Religion & the Cross-Dresser, Transgender Healthcare, Free Expression, Sex Change Surgery by Bonnie Bullough (Editor)
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From The Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond by Morty Diamond (Editor)
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I Am My Own Wife: A Play by Doug Wright
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I Am My Own Wife: The True Story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf by Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf
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Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones, 2nd Edition by Mary Boenke (Foreword), Arlene Istar Lev (Foreword), and Jessica Xavier (Introduction)
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Gender Shock: Exploding The Myths Of Male And Female by Phyllis Burke
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FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals In Society by Holly Devor
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The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinski
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Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them by Marriete Pathy Allen
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My Husband Wears My Clothes: Crossdressing from the Perspective of a Wife by Peggy Ed.D Ruud
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The Man in the Red Velvet Dress: Inside the World of Cross-Dressing by J.J. Allen
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World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care, available online at www.wpath.org/
Gender/Queer Theory
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
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Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
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My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely by Kate Bornstein
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Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism by Patrick Califia-Rice
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Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity by Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Editor)
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Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg
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Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary by Joan Nestle (Editor), Riki Wilchins (Editor), and Clare Howell (Editor)
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Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer by Riki Wilchins
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Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender by Riki Wilchins
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The Transgender Studies Reader by Susan Stryker (Editor) and Stephen Whittle (Editor)
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The Transgender Studies Reader 2 by Susan Stryker (Editor) and Aren Z. Aizura (Editor)
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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling
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Undoing Gender by Judith Butler
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
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Second Skins by Jay Prosser
Educational
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True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism by Mildred L. Brown and Chloe Ann Roundsley
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Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families by Arlene Istar Lev
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Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience by Matt Kailey
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The Lazy Crossdresser by Charles Anders
