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“I want all my Queer and Trans siblings to remember that we are not alone. We never have been and we never will be."
- James Dillon III
Representation in art and media can be powerfully affirming and deeply inspiring both within and beyond the Trans+ community. As the treasury of Trans books grows, so too, do public understanding and affirmation. If you’re simply looking for a fun book to dive into this vibrant culture, a way to see yourself or a loved one represented on the page, or an educational exposition that encompasses some aspect of Trans+ history, you’ve come to the right place.
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Author(s):
• Virginia Hall
Description:
• Six-year-old Mark knows a truth about himself: that despite having a boy's body, deep inside he is in fact a girl. His sister gets it, but his parents don't understand and, with increasing violence, try to beat the devil out of him. As he grows older and his body begins to mature, can Mark endure in a world so hostile and hateful towards him? This is the story of a child's struggle with gender, faith, and forgiveness.
Year of Publication:
• 2016
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Nico Lang
Description:
• For over a year, journalist Nico Lang traveled the country to document the lives of transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid teens and their families. Through hundreds of hours of on-the-ground interviews with them and the people in their communities, American Teenager illustrates a clear picture of what it’s like to grow up trans today.
Year of Publication:
• 2025
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Robert W. Fieseler
Description:
• A vital exposé for both our history and our present day, American Scare tells the riveting story of how the Florida government destroyed the lives of Black and queer citizens in the twentieth century.
Year of Publication:
• 2025
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Joseph N Goh
Description:
• This book explores the fluid, mutable and contingent ways in which transgender men in Malaysia construct their subjectivities. Against the dearth of academic resources on Malaysian trans men, this ground-breaking monograph is rooted in the lived experiences of Malaysian trans men whose vicissitudes have mostly been hidden, silenced and overlooked. Comprising diverse age groups, ethnicities, socio-economic status, educational backgrounds and religious persuasions, these trans men reveal how they navigate life in a country with secular and religious laws that criminalise their embodiments, and the strategies they deploy to achieve self-determination and self-actualisation despite being perceived as aberrant and sinful.
Year of Publication:
• 2020
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Amy Ellis Nutt
Description:
• The inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family’s extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning science reporter for The Washington Post
Year of Publication:
• 2015
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• John C. Lamothe
Description:
• This books examines representations and experiences of trans and nonbinary identities in a variety of contemporary cultural contexts including media, religion, sports, race, film, performance, and literature. Mixing auto-ethnographies and supportive scholarship, the contributors to this volume deliver a global perspective on the accomplishment that have been made alongside the challenges that members of the LGTBQIA + community continue to face.
Year of Publication:
• 2021
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• C. Riley Snorton
Description:
• In this groundbreaking book, Snorton bridges the histories of Blackness and transness, uncovering how shared experiences of oppression, resistance, and survival have shaped these identities. Through powerful analysis and storytelling, Black on Both Sides redefines how we think about identity, history, and liberation.
Year of Publication:
• 2017
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Torrey Peters
Description:
A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex.
Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.
Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese—and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby—and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it—Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family—and raise the baby together?
This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel.
Year of Publication:
• 2021
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Joan Roughgarden
Description:
• In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science—and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. Evolution's Rainbow explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body
Year of Publication:
• 2009
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author:
• Katie Barnes
Description:
• For decades women have been playing competitive sports, thanks in large part to the protective cover of Title IX. Since the passage of that law, the number of women participating in sports and the level of competition in high school and college and professionally, has risen dramatically. In Fair Play, award-winning journalist Katie Barnes traces the evolution of women’s sports as a pastime and a political arena where equality and fairness have been fought over for generations.
• As attitudes toward gender have shifted to embrace more fluidity in recent decades, sex continues to be viewed as a static binary that is easily determined: male or female. It is on the very idea of static sex that we have built an entire sporting apparatus. Now that foundation is being hotly debated as a result of intense culture wars. Many transgender and intersex athletes, including a South African runner, a wrestler in Texas, a Connecticut track star, and a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, have captured the attention of law and policymakers who want to decide how and when they compete. Women’s sports, since their inception, have been seen as a separate class of competition that requires protection and rules for entry. But what are those rules and who gets to make them? Fair Play looks at all sides of the issue and presents a reasoned and much-needed solution that seeks to preserve opportunities for all going forward.
Year of Publication
• 2023
Author(s):
• Marty Fink
Description:
• Queers and trans people in the 1980s and early ‘90s were dying of AIDS and the government failed to care. Lovers, strangers, artists, and community activists came together take care of each other in the face of state violence. In revisiting these histories alongside ongoing queer and trans movements, this book uncovers how early HIV care-giving narratives actually shape how we continue to understand our genders and our disabilities. The queer and trans care-giving kinships that formed in response to HIV continue to inspire how we have sex and build chosen families in the present.
Year of Publication:
• 2020
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Mira Bellwether
Description:
• FTW is a zine by trans women, about the sex lives of trans women. It is an educational and instructional tool as much as it is a creative exploration of how we have sex.
Year of Publication:
• 2010
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Ivan E. Coyote
• Rae Spoon
Description:
• Based on their accalimed 2012 live multimedia show, storytellers and musicians Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon explore the lived realities of nonbinary masculinity and "failing" at gender expectations -- both within and without trans communities. In short, conversational chapters interspersed with photos and drawings from their shows, this book not only touches on lesser discussed aspects of trans existence, but lets the reader into the mind of two of contemporary art's brightest nonbinary performers.
Year of Publication:
• 2014
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Rae McDaniel, MEd, LCPC, CST (they/them)
Description:
• A first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving gender freedom with joy, curiosity, and pleasure for transgender and non-binary individuals, gender explorers, and those who love them. A uniquely supportive narrative for gender exploration and transition grounded in queer joy, their nine-pillar model has helped thousands of transgender and nonbinary individuals explore gender through play, pleasure, and freedom. And now, it can help you too.
Whether you're transgender, non-binary, cisgender, or still exploring, this compassionate and practical guide will help you experience your gender in new, expansive ways by teaching:
• How to move from anxiety, self-doubt, and fear to a confident, proactive state of mind.
• How to navigate discomfort and celebrate your inherent worth as you develop genuine self-love.
• How to design relationships, community, and a sex life that lights you up.
• Practical tools to align your gender identity and expression with your most authentic self through play, pleasure, and possibility.
Year of Publication
• 2023
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman
Description:
• Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation is a beautiful anthology of essays, poems, interviews, and art that redefines what it means to be a gender outlaw in the 21st century. Bornstein and Bergman share their personal experiences, challenges, and triumphs, offering fresh perspectives on identity, intersectionality, and community. The result is a multifaceted exploration of what it means to break free from traditional gender norms and create new, inclusive spaces for self-expression and belonging.
Year of Publication
• 2010
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Allison Moon
Description:
• Topics include: Safer Sex, STIs, Cunnilingus, Strap-on sex, Trans Women, Intersex, Sex and Disability, Gender Identity, Coming Out, Menopause, Pregnancy, Dyke Drama, Relationship Skills, Sex for Survivors, Consent, Flirting, Vibrators and Other Toys, Lesbian Identity, Bisexual and Pansexual Identity, and much more!
Year of Publication:
• 2016
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Jennie Kermode
Description:
• Drawing on the experiences of older trans people and those transitioning later in life, this is a definitive guide to ageing as a trans and/or non-binary person. It covers the key health concerns and social issues affecting older trans people, including care homes, pensions, inheritance and funeral planning, as well as hormone use and physical changes, isolation and dementia. Kermode also provides guidance for professionals looking to better meet the needs of these individuals and highlights the important factors that need to be considered at an institutional level to provide the best care for people across the gender spectrum.
Year of Publication:
• 2021
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Andrew Joseph White
Description:
• Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.
Year of Publication:
• 2022
Target Audience:
• Young Adults
Author(s):
• Stuart Getty
Description:
• How to They/Them is a useful guide to a gender fluid world.” “In this sometimes-serious, often-humorous guide, Getty breaks down the do's and don'ts of using these pronouns, how to be an ally in any situation (including the workplace), and just what gender fluidity means.”
Year of Publication:
• 2020
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Andrea Kaspryk
Description:
• Andrea Kaspryk in essays, poems, and images of paintings and prints describes a journey of coming out and coming to terms with herself as a transgender person. Most of the essays and poems in this book were originally published in a newsletter of an interfaith spirituality group The Living Circle to which the author belonged. Guided meditations are also included in this volume, which serve as exercises to promote calm and deeper, better self-understanding of oneself, as well as facsimile reproduction of the first Living Circle newsletter.
Year of Publication:
• 2018
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Andrea James
• Deanne Thornton
Description:
• "If you could write just one letter to someone who is beginning their gender transition or to your younger, pre-transition self, what would you say?" Letters for My Sisters, edited by Deanne Thornton and Andrea James, asked transgender women this question. The result is a heartfelt collection of advice, confessions, regrets, and triumphs from 35 women — the largest number of contributors to a collection by trans women yet published.
Year of Publication:
• 2014
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Thomas Page McBee
Description:
• Famed for his evocative essays on masculinity in the Rumpus, trans writer Thomas Page McBee gives readers a short, poetic piece of creative nonfiction unlike anything yet seen in the trans memoir genre. Carefully avoiding the tendency towards a tell-all, McBee zooms in on his journey toward self-realization as he suffers the post-traumatic anxieties of two pivotal events: his father's sexual abuse of him as a child and his near-death encounter with a mugger.
Year of Publication:
• 2014
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Tourmaline
Description:
“Thank god the revolution has begun, honey.” Rumor has it that after Marsha P. Johnson threw the first brick in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, she picked up a shard of broken mirror to fix her makeup. Marsha, a legendary Black transgender activist, embodied both the beauty and the struggle of the early gay rights movement. Her work sparked the progress we see today, yet there has never been a definitive record of her life. Until now.
Written with sparkling prose, Tourmaline’s richly researched biography Marsha finally brings this iconic figure to life, in full color. We vividly meet Marsha as both an activist and artist: She performed with RuPaul and with the internationally renowned drag troupe The Hot Peaches. She was a muse to countless artists from Andy Warhol to the band Earth, Wind & Fire. And she continues to inspire people today.
Marsha didn’t wait to be freed; she declared herself free and told the world to catch up. Her story promises to inspire readers to live as their most liberated, unruly, vibrant, and whole selves.
Year of Publication:
• 2025
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Heather Bryant
Description:
• Maybe you just found out your mom, or your dad, is transgender, or maybe you've known for a while. But now what? With real-life stories from people whose parents have also transitioned, and practical advice throughout, this essential book will be your companion every step of the way. Interviews and life tips from kids just like you will help you find your way.
Year of Publication:
• 2020
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Dean Spade
Description:
• Normal Life challenges views on trans justice and questions the belief that changing laws alone can improve transgender people’s lives. Spade argues that while legal reforms can help, they often don’t address the root causes of harm for the most marginalized in the trans community. Instead, he introduces critical trans politics, which urges us to rethink how the legal system, healthcare, and government can cause harm to trans people despite legal victories.
Year of Publication:
• 2011
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Sara Weiss
Description:
• Autobiographical. From the author: "Have you ever experienced something negative that turned into a limiting belief and has held you back from reaching your true potential, happiness or income? We all have, especially some of the happiest and most successful people on the planet! Have you ever thought to yourself "I know I'm capable of much more! What am I doing wrong?"I thought that for a lot of my life until I was given the recipe and began to follow it. I turned my limitations and disadvantages into my super powers and realized that everything I wanted in life was right in front of me, I just had to learn how to see it! This book will help you see it too and empower you to step into YOUR superpowers! Here is your recipe."
Year of Publication:
• 2020
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author:
• Elliot Page
Description:
• Elliot Page burst onto the national spotlight as a quirky teen in Juno, earning him an Oscar nomination and a place among Hollywood’s coveted A-list. Thirteen years later, he came out as a trans man. Now, Page is sharing that journey, in his own words.
Year of Publication:
• 2023
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Dr. Meg-John Barker (Author), Jules Scheele (Illustrator)
Description:
• Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel.
• From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged.
• Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what’s ‘normal’ – Alfred Kinsey’s view of sexuality as a spectrum, Judith Butler’s view of gendered behaviour as a performance, the play Wicked, or moments in Casino Royale when we’re invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media.
• Presented in a brilliantly engaging and witty style, this is a unique portrait of the universe of queer thinking.
Year of Publication:
• 2016
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Nia King
Description:
• For several years, mixed-race queer artist Nia King has been interviewing queer and trans artists of color for her We Want the Airwaves podcast. Having left her own job to make art full-time, King seeks to understand the motivations and passions of other artists, and how this intersects with their racial, gender, and sexual identities. With help from a successful Indiegogo fundraiser and editors Terra Mikalson and Jessica Glennon-Zukoff, King was able to compile fascinating interviews with trans innovators including author Ryka Aoki, filmmaker Kortney Ryan Ziegler, writer Fabian Romero, writer Lovemme Corazón, and more.
Year of Publication:
• 2016
Target Audience:
• Adults
• Teens
Author(s):
• Cartiona Mortimer Sandilands
Description:
• Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality and environmental studies.
Year of Publication:
• 2010
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall
Description:
• Co-written by Advocate editor-at-large Diane Anderson-Minshall, a cisgender (nontrans) woman, and her husband Jacob, a trans man, Queerly Beloved follows their journey from being together 16 years as a lesbian couple very involved in LGBT media, and then going through Jacob's gender transition side-by-side. The book touches on some fascinating topics only a couple could do justice to, like maintaining love and intimacy over a couple decades, shifting sexuality labels, considering pregnancy, addressing internalized misogyny, and foster parenting.
Year of Publication:
• 2014
Target Audience:
• Adult
Author(s):
• Janet Mock
Description:
• Dominating the New York Times bestseller list as soon as it hit shelves, Janet Mock's memoir tells the story of the celebrated journalist's early years and young adulthood. Now a well-known public figure and esteemed for giving voice to trans women of color through her #girlslikeus social media campaign, Mock shows us her vulnerabilities, as well as the clear roots of her current strength. This book also offers a great "Trans 201" for cisgender (nontrans) readers who seek more in-depth knowledge about trans rights, healthcare, and the intersections of race and gender-based oppression.
Year of Publication:
• 2014
Target Audience:
• Adult
Author(s):
• Anne Balay
Description:
• Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. Gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority truck drivers allow award-winning author Anne Balay to shed new light on the harsh realities of truckers' lives behind the wheel.
Year of Publication:
• 2020
Target Audience:
• Adult
Author(s):
• Myra J Hird
Description:
• In Sex, Gender and Science , Myra Hird outlines the social study of science and nature, specifically in relation to 'sex', sex 'differences' and sexuality. She examines how Western understandings of 'sex' are based less upon understanding material sex differences, than on a discourse that emphasizes sex dichotomy over sex diversity and argues for a feminist engagement with scientific debate that embraces the diversity and complexity of nature.
Year of Publication:
• 2004
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Jennifer Finney Boylan
Description:
• The provocative bestseller She’s Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan’s fresh voice, She’s Not There is about a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret. As James evolves into Jennifer in scenes that are by turns tender, startling, and witty, a marvelously human perspective emerges on issues of love, sex, and the fascinating relationship between our physical and intuitive selves.
Year of Publication:
• 2003
Target Audience:
• Teens
• Adults
Author(s):
• Elliott DeLine
Description:
• Elliott DeLine has written 3 acclaimed books -- not too shabby for a 26-year-old self-published author! In his first nonfiction work, following his novel Refuse and novella I Know Very Well How I Got My Name, DeLine told the Advocate he became more "autobiographical" and arguably more "scandalous" than ever before. The book "goes there" in a fresh way about trans male sexuality and how trans people are pushed to become 'spectacles,' examining DeLine's experiences with sex addiction, sex work, and navigating the MSM scene, as well as covering a trip West, his dissociative identity disorder, and the struggle to find love, connection, and self-actualization as a non-binary trans person.
Year of Publication:
• 2014
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Jennifer Finney Boylan
Description:
• GLAAD cochair and bestselling author of She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders Jennifer Finney Boylan is back with a one-of-a-kind memoir all about parenting (okay, it came out last year, but was just released on paperback!). Including interviews with other parents, Boylan explores her relationship with her two sons as it evolved over the course of her gender transition. The title references the "in between" place she comes to hold as their parent: not quite their Mom, not their Daddy anymore, she's "Maddy" to her two sons —boys who she ultimately sees as becoming better men for having grown up with a trans parent.
Year of Publication:
• 2013
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Hunter Rook, Jay Mays, Robin Mack
Description:
• The GENDER book is a visual primer on the world of gender. It has been called “simple enough for your grandma to understand, real enough to hit home on every page.” It discusses terms such as genderqueer, MtF, transsexual, transgender, and drag king in a way that is accessible, nonjudgmental, and demystifying. It is made to be enjoyed in one sitting. The 90-page book is colorful, fun, and fully illustrated. It follows the adventures of Boston’s personal gender exploration. The GENDER book is the result of countless hours of research, over 400 questionnaires, and dozens of one-on-one interviews with members of the communities depicted. The result represents an agreement of many diverse community voices and a huge step forward in the world of gender education.
Year of Publication:
• 2013
Target Audience:
• Teens/Adults
Author(s):
• NV Gay
Description:
• The Ultimate Guide to Being an Empowering LGBTQIA+ Ally
Year of Publication:
• 2025
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author:
• Raquel Willis
Description:
• A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation.
Year of Publication:
• 2023
Target Audience
• Adults
Author(s):
• Sarah McBride
Description:
• Before she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride struggled with the decision to come out—not just to her family but to the students of American University, where she was serving as student body president. She’d known she was a girl from her earliest memories, but it wasn’t until the Facebook post announcing her truth went viral that she realized just how much impact her story could have on the country.
Year of Publication:
• 2019
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Chris Dowd
Description:
• There remains a lack of knowledge and understanding about trans people in the church, and trans people who are religious can experience bias in their faith communities. With the help of their many years of experience working with trans people negotiating their relationships with religious institutions, the authors (one of whom is trans) have created this accessible, valuable guide that will educate and improve churches' relationship with trans people. Combining first-hand interviews, the authors' own experiences and scripture analysis, this thought-provoking guide uses this combination of ancient and contemporary stories to outline a theology that welcomes and includes all people whatever their gender identity or sexual orientation.
Year of Publication:
• 2020
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Barry Reay
Description:
• Barry Reay explores this history: from a time before trans in the nineteenth century to the transsexual moment of the 1960s and 1970s, the transgender turn of the 1990s, and the so-called tipping point of current culture. It is a rich and varied history, where same-sex desires and identities, cross-dressing, and transsexual and transgender identities jostled for recognition.
Year of Publication:
• 2020
Target Audience:
• Adults
• Teens
Author(s):
• Laura Erickson-Schroch
Description:
• At over 672 pages, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves looks to be the most comprehensive trans resource ever published. The book features more than 200 contributors, and covers topics like the gender spectrum, trans history, health, cultural and social topics, and gender theory. Editor Laura Erickson-Schroth worked with a massive team of trans volunteers over nearly five years, inteviewing trans, genderqueer, and nonbinary folks around the country to include their voices in quotes on nearly every page.
Year of Publication:
• 2014
Target Audience:
• Adults
Content:
• A list of books with trans main characters and books written by trans authors
• Created by Rhys (@readwithrhys on Instagram)
Link:
• Trans Lead Books/Trans Authors (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-L2faSt5CKqqvnNt0QWQfngRAWw7rT3m_OAVXyEL5Ug/edit#gid=0)
Author(s):
• Freiya Benson
Description:
• A ground-breaking anthology of writing on the topic of love, written by trans and non-binary people who share their thoughts, feelings and experiences of love in all its guises. The collection spans familial, romantic, spiritual and self-love as well as friendships and ally love, to provide a broad and honest understanding of how trans people navigate love and relationships, and what love means to them.
Year of Publication:
• 2019
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Genny Beemyn
Description:
• Some of the first published research focusing on nonbinary trans undergraduates and trans graduate students is included here, in addition to the most comprehensive research to date of trans students at women’s colleges and of trans academics. Trans People in Higher Education also examines the sexual health of trans students, the treatment of trans people by individuals with institutional authority, and the strategies and lessons learned from one college that successfully became more trans inclusive
Year of Publication:
• 2019
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Collaborative
Description:
• A collaborative, ongoing sex ed project by and for trans and GNC folks
Year of Publication:
• Ongoing
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Kevin Manders
Description:
• Transcending brings together more than thirty contributors from both the Mahayana and Theravada traditions to present a vision for a truly inclusive trans Buddhist sangha in the twenty-first century. Shining a light on a new generation of Buddhist role models, this book gives voice to those who have long been marginalized within the Buddhist world and society at large. While trans, genderqueer, and nonbinary practitioners have experienced empowerment and healing through their commitment to the Buddha, dharma, and sangha, they also share their experiences of isolation, transphobia, and aggression. In this diverse collection we hear the firsthand accounts, thoughts, and reflections of trans Buddhists from a variety of different lineages in an open invitation for all Buddhists to bring the issue of gender identity into the sangha, into the discourse, and onto the cushion.
Year of Publication:
• 2019
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
• Sarah McBride
• Foreword by Joe Biden
Description:
• Informative, heartbreaking, and profoundly empowering, Tomorrow Will Be Different is McBride’s story of love and loss and a powerful entry point into the LGBTQ community’s battle for equal rights and what it means to be openly transgender. From issues like bathroom access to health care to gender in America, McBride weaves the important political and cultural milestones into a personal journey that will open hearts and change minds.
Year of Publication:
• 2018
Target Audience:
• Adults
Author(s):
Laura Kate Dale
Description:
In this candid, first-of-its-kind memoir, Laura Kate Dale recounts what life is like growing up as a gay trans woman on the autism spectrum. From struggling with sensory processing, managing socially demanding situations and learning social cues and feminine presentation, through to coming out as trans during an autistic meltdown, Laura draws on her personal experiences from life prior to transition and diagnosis, and moving on to the years of self-discovery, to give a unique insight into the nuances of sexuality, gender and autism, and how they intersect.
Year of Publication:
2019
Target Audience:
Adults
Author(s):
Lynda Wolters
Description:
Why do so many in our modern society reject those who are different?Though the mainstream acceptance of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Queer community has made leaps and bounds over the past few years, many pivotal groups within our modern society still respond to the LGBTQ+ community with an overwhelming, knee-jerk reaction of "us" vs. "them." Despite the progress that has been made, misunderstanding, hatred, animosity, aggression, and violence still affect this community on a deep level. Lynda Wolters knows firsthand: a strong ally, she has come to know, understand, and have a deep respect for the community through her son, who is gay.Including highly personal, real-world anecdotes, Voices of LGBTQ+ helps outline some of the most critical challenges the community faces today, with topical insights into:? Homelessness? Hate crimes? Suicide? Economic challenges? Discrimination and lack of equality? Religious and biblical conflictsThough judgment and divisiveness still run deep in our society, Wolters highlights the first key distinction, among many others, that will help eradicate bigotry: those who are different are not choosing to be, they simply are, and it's our differences that make us stronger. Voices of LGBTQ+ helps educate, dispel fears, and start positive conversations about what knowing, loving, or simply peacefully and positively coexisting with someone in the LGBTQ+ community really means. After all, there is no "us" vs. "them." We are all human.
Year of Publication:
2020
Target Audience:
Adults
Author(s):
Andrea Abi-Karam
Description:
Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics as an experiment into how far literature, written from an identitarian standpoint, can go as a fellow traveler with social movements and revolutionary demands. Writing in dialogue with emancipatory political movements, the intergenerational writers assembled here imagine an altogether overturned world in poems that pursue the particular and multiple trans relationships to desire, embodiment, housing, sex, ecology, history, pop culture, and the working day.
Year of Publication:
2020
Target Audience:
Adults
Teens
Author(s):
Julia Serano
Description:
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole.
Year of Publication:
2007
Target Audience:
Adults
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