Transgender Resources A Sampling of Resources Available at
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BOOKS Addams, Calpernia. Mark 947 : a life shaped by God, gender and force of will.
HQ77.8 A33 M3 2003
Showtime’s A Soldier’s Girl was based on this memoir.
Benjamin, Harry. The Transsexual Phenomenon.
HQ77.9 B4 T7 1966
Pioneering research from the 1960’s.
Bloom, Amy. Normal: Transsexual CEO’s Cross-Dressing Cops, Hermaphrodites with Attitude.
HQ77.95 U6 B58 2002
Essays that challenge common definitions of gender and sexuality.
Bockting, Walter. Transgender health and HIV prevention. Bornstein, Kate. Gender Outlaw: on Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. Bornstein, Kate. My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely. Boylan, Jennifer. She's not there: a life in two genders.
RA643.83 B63 2005 HQ77.9 B67 1994 HQ1075 B69 1998 PS3552 O914 Z477 2003
Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Book.
Burke, Phyllis. Gender shock: exploding the myths of male and female.
HQ1075 B85 1996
Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Book.
Feinberg, Leslie. Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue. Currah, Paisley and others. Transgender rights.
Current issues in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health. Edited by Jay Harcourt.
HQ77.95 F45 T73 1998 HQ77.9 T716 2006 RA564.87 C87 2006
Several chapters on transgender health topics.
Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex.
PS3555 U4 M53 2002
Pulitzer Prize winning novel that traces the life and family history of an intersex teenager.
Gorman, Michael. The empress is a man: stories from the life of José Sarria.
HQ77.1 S27 G67 1998
Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Book.
Green, Jamison. Becoming a visible man.
HQ77.8 G35 G74 2004
Memoir with insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual experience
Halberstam, Judith. Female masculinity.
HQ75.5 H33 1998
Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Book
Howey, Noelle. Dress codes: of three girlhoods--my mother's, my father's, and mine.
HQ777.83 H68 2002
ALA Stonewall Honor Book Nonfiction and Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Book.
Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Transgender issues in the workplace. Jorgensen, Christine. Christine Jorgensen: a Personal Autobiography.
HD6285 U6 2004 REF HQ77.8 J67 C57 1968
Autobiography of a transgender pioneer.
Kailey, Matt. Just add hormones: an insider's guide to the transsexual experience. Meyerowitz, Joanne. How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality.
HQ77.8 K34 A3 2005 HQ77.95 E85 M48 2002
ALA Stonewall Book Award for Non-fiction
Middlebrook, Diane. Suits Me: the double life of Billy Tipton Out of the ordinary: essays on growing. up with gay, lesbian, and transgender parents. Edited by Howey, Noelle & Samuels, Ellen Lambda Literary Award Finalist Transgender Book.
ML417 T58 M53 1998 HQ777.8 O87 2000
HQ77.8 R67 2003
Rose, Donna. Wrapped in blue: a journey of discovery. Autobiography of transgender activist.
Roughgarden, Joan. Evolution's rainbow: diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people.
QH541.15 B56 R68 2004
ALA Stonewall Book Award for Non-fiction.
Stryker, Susan. Transgender history. Trans People in Love. Edited by Tracie O'Keefe and Katrina Fox Velasco, Sherry. The lieutenant nun: transgenderism, lesbian desire & Catalina de Erauso.
HQ77.9 S77 T7 2008 HQ 77.9 O44 T73 2008 PN57 E68 V45 2000
Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Book.
Wilchins, Riki Anne. Read my lips: sexual subversion and the end of gender.
HQ77.8 W55 A3 1997
Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Book.
Williams, Walter. The spirit and the flesh: sexual diversity in American Indian culture.
E98 S48 W55 1992
ALA Stonewall Book Award for Non-fiction.
FILMS Breakfast on Pluto. A transgender person leaves Ireland in hopes of a better life in London. Boys Don’t Cry. In a fictionalized telling of the story of Brandon Teena, a young woman identifies as a man in a small Nebraska town with tragic consequences. Academy Award Best Actress Hilary Swank.
Gendernauts. A look at the world of transgender identity. Ma vie en rose = My life in pink. A six year old boy deals with rejection when he wishes to be a girl. TransGeneration. Four American college students as they prepare for gender reassignment. Understanding Transgender Issues. A training film for employers featuring transgender activist Donna Rose.
ONLINE RESOURCES Human Rights Campaign. Coming Out as Transgender. Brochure also available online at: www.hrc.org/documents/2071_HRC_Coming_Out.pdf
Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Transgender Americans: A Handbook for Understanding. Brochure available online at: www.hrc.org/issues/transgender/1500.htm National Center for Transgender Equality – www.nctequality.org Social justice organization dedicated to advancing the equality of transgender people through advocacy, collaboration and empowerment. National Transgender Day of Remembrance - www.rememberingourdead.org/day Resources for November 20, commemorating those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. Transgender Law and Policy Institute - www.transgenderlaw.org A non-profit organization dedicated to engaging in effective advocacy for transgender people in our society.
Transcending Identities: A Bibliography of Resources on Transgender and Intersex Topics. By the GLBT Roundtable of the American Library Association. http://isd.usc.edu/~trimmer/glbtrt/bibtransgender.pdf This is a small sampling of books and resources in our collection. Our Library is open to the public and our online catalog can be searched at: www.libraryworld.net/opac At the Sign-In page, enter: Phil Johnson Library as the Library Name. You do not need a password.
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