Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers
10 best books like Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers (Cris Beam): Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, Becoming a Visible Man, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, The Transgender Studies Reader, Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender, What Becomes You, Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word), Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws, Kicked Out
| Author | Nancy Garden |
| ISBN | 0374317593 |
What was it like being young and gay during the closeted 1950s, the exuberant beginnings of the modern gay rights movement in the 1970s, or the frightening outbreak of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s? In this unique history, Nancy Garden uses both fact and fiction to explore just what it has meant to be young and...
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
| Author | Leslie Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0807079413 |
I've read a few reviews of this and a lot seem to bash Feinberg for not presenting a thoroughly academic history of transgender identity. I do think this kind of critique misses the point: quite spectacularly.
It's definitely true that if you want a meticulous, detailed, jargony drudge through...
Sylvia Rivera Award for Best Book in Transgender Studies, 2004
Lambda Literary Award Finalist, 2004
Written by a leading activist in the transgender movement, Becoming a Visible Man is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. Jamison Green combines candid autobiography...
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
| Author | S. Bear Bergman |
| ISBN | 1551522640 |
Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humor and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces...
The Transgender Studies Reader
| Author | Susan Stryker |
| ISBN | 0415947081 |
Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is...
| Author | Nick Krieger |
| ISBN | 0807000922 |
Honor Book for the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards in non-fiction
The next-generation Stone Butch Blues--a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.
Ambitious, sporty, feminine “capital-L lesbians” had been Nina Krieger’s...
| Author | Aaron Raz Link |
| ISBN | 0803210817 |
“Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn,” Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You, who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. Turning from female to male and from teaching scientist...
Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)
| Author | Thea Hillman |
| ISBN | 1933149248 |
“In Hillman’s world, the surer you become about who you are, the more vulnerable you get.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian
“Hillman’s writing is sexy because it’s smart and refuses to simplify things.”—Fabula Magazine
"Hillman's utterly unabashed memoir...showcases...
| Author | Kate Bornstein |
| ISBN | 1583227202 |
Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it.
Here, Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods...
| Author | Sassafras Lowrey |
| ISBN | 0978597362 |
In the U.S., 40% of homeless youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ). Kicked Out brings together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth and tells the forgotten stories of some of our nation's most vulnerable citizens. Diverse contributors share stories...
| Author | Hazel Edwards |
| ISBN | 1876462906 |
School-leaver Skye plays guitar in an all-female Chronic Cramps band. Joining the punk/indie scene is easier than FTM (female to male) transitioning: from Skye to Finn, from girl to transman. 'f2m;the boy within' was the first YA novel about transitioning co-written by an ftm. It has also inspired...
| Author | Kelly Huegel |
| ISBN | 1575421267 |
The teen years are full of challenges.
For gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning teens, these challenges can include prejudice, discrimination, rejection, reprisals, insensitive remarks (even among friends and families) and, sometimes, violence.
But being...
| Author | Amy Sonnie |
| ISBN | 1555835589 |
Invisible. Unheard. Alone. Chilling words, but apt to describe the isolation and alienation of queer youth. In silence and fear they move from childhood memories of intolerance or violence to the unknown, unmentored landscape of queer adulthood, their voices stilled or ignored. No longer. Revolutionary...
| Author | Viviane Namaste |
| ISBN | 0226568105 |
Invisible Lives is the first scholarly study of transgendered people—cross-dressers, drag queens and transsexuals—and their everyday lives.
Through combined theoretical and empirical study, Viviane K. Namaste argues that transgendered people are not so much produced by medicine...
| Author | Rachel Pepper |
| ISBN | 1573447889 |
Transitions of the Heart is the first collection to ever invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children of all ages to tell their own stories about their child's gender transition. Often "transitioning" socially and emotionally alongside their child but rarely given a voice in the experience,...
| Author | Joanne J. Meyerowitz |
| ISBN | 0674013794 |
How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last century when many challenged the social categories...
She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband
| Author | Helen Boyd |
| ISBN | 1580051936 |
Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman — socially, legally, and medically. Would Boyd love and desire her...
True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism-For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals
| Author | Mildred L. Brown |
| ISBN | 0787967025 |
Combines authoritative information and humanitarian insight into the transsexual experience
Filled with wisdom and understanding, this groundbreaking book paints a vivid portrait of conflicts transsexuals face on a daily basis--and the courage they must summon as they struggle to...
The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights
| Author | Deborah Rudacille |
| ISBN | 0375421629 |
When Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why.
Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angles–historical, sociological, psychological, medical–Rudacille discovered...
| Author | Paisley Currah |
| ISBN | 0816643121 |
"Transgender Rights packs a surprising amount of information into a small space. Offering spare, tightly executed essays, this slim volume nonetheless succeeds in creating a spectacular, well-researched compendium of the transgender movement." -Law Library Journal
Over the past three...
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond
| Author | Morty Diamond |
| ISBN | 0916397963 |
Born female yet little identified with that gender, these transgender, genderqueer, third gender, and gender variant writers offer personal insights into changing gender identity, dating, workplace issues, and more. This book shines light on those who identify as FTM (female to male) and also...
The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male
| Author | Max Wolf Valerio |
| ISBN | 1580051731 |
Max Wolf Valerio crafts a raw, gripping, and poetic account of life before, during, and after injecting testosterone. Valerio's detailed observations about a lesbian transitioning from female to a heterosexual male highlights the physical and emotional differences between women and men, and...
Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals
| Author | Stephanie A. Brill |
| ISBN | 1573443182 |
This comprehensive first of its kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as years of experience working in the field, the authors cover gender variance...
Letters for My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect
In today's fast paced world, the internet can provide quick answers to personal questions. But when an individual raised by society to live, breathe and look at the world with female eyes transitions to male, some of the most enlightening, helpful and profound advice can only come in retrospect. Letter...
