The Menstuff® library lists pertinent books on Sexuality - Transgender. See also Sexuality - General and Sexuality - Gay/Bi. Photo in left hand corner above is from Transgender Warriors. We would also like to acknowledge Nip Tuck, The L Word and Gray's Anatomy for working positive images of transsexuals into their television shows.
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Alexander, Jonathan & Karen
Yescavage, editors, Bisexuality and
Transgenderism: Intersexions of the others. This book,
guaranteed to provoke debate and discussion of sexuality and
gender, is the first devoted exclusively to the relationship
betwen transgenderism and bisexuality. Combining the work of
scholars and activists, professional writers and lay people, it
presents ideas, thoughts, feelings, and insights from a variety of
contributors who are committed to understanding - and deepening
our understanding of - gender and sexuality. You'll find scholarly
essays, narratives, poetry, and a revealing interview with four
male-to-female transsexuals, two of whom are married to women who
also participate in the discussion. In addition, the book includes
insightful chapters by well-known advocated of transgenderism.
Harrington Park Press, www.haworthpress.com,
2004, ISBN 1-56023-287-0 
Baird, Vanessa, The No-Nonsense guide to Sexual Diversity.
Why are some people gay, some straight - and many
bisexual? Why do some women feel they are really male and
some men feel that deep down they are female? Is there a gay
gene? The world is changing and especially so for sexual
minorities - for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender
people. In some countries, hard-won battles for equality are
bearing fruit in non-discrimination legislation. In others, being
gay incurs the death penalty. This book demystifies the colors of
the sexual rainbow. It unearths the hidden history of lesbians,
gays, cross-dressers, eunuchs, transsexuals over the world and
through time. It looks at the contributions of science and
medicine, and it covers the war against sexual nonconformists that
is being waged by the religious fundamentalists, be they
Christian, Muslim or Hindu. In addition, this Guide includes an
essential user-friendly, country-by-country, global survey of laws
that affect sexual minorities. New Internationalist Publications,
www.newint.org or www.versobooks.com,
2001, ISBN 1-85984-353-0 Buy
this book!
Beam, Chris, Transparent: Love, family
and living the T with transponder teenagers. Christina,
Dominique, Foxxjazell and Ariel's world is a dizzying mix of
teenage cliques, crushes, and far less familiar challenges - such
as how to morph your body on a few dollars a day. These
transponder girls bravely struggle to reconcile the way they feel
inside with the way the world sees them. Funny, defiant, and
sometimes heartbreaking, the author's exceptional story of how
these girls survive - and maybe even thrice - despite a world that
wants to ignore them is a wonder of storytelling and passionate
engagement. A Harvest Book, Harcourt, www.HarcourtBooks.com,
2007, ISBN 0-15-603377-0 
Bornstein, Kate, My Gender Workbook. From living without
gender to thwarting the gender police, from uncoupling the
sex/gender puzzle to finding out what you really think about
yourself and other people, this is the author's guide to exploring
the big G. Transgendered writer and performer, author of Gender
Outlaw, and reluctant authority on living outside rules (all
kinds of them), Kate takes you on a class trip through the wilds
of gender. So, put your thinking caps on, get your pencils ready,
and please don't read your neighbor's work. You'd only be cheating
yourself. Routledge www.routledge.com
1998 ISBN 0-415-91673-9 Buy
This Book!
Brill, Stephanie and Rachel Pepper The
Transgender Child: A handbook for families and
professionals. What do you do when your son insists on wearing
a dress to school? Or when your toddler daughter's first
sentence is that she's a boy? Offering an extensive
understanding of gender-variant and transgender youth, this book
answers these questions a more. Covering developmental, legal,
medical and school issues, it is a comprehensive,
first-of-its-kind guidebook for the unique challenges that
thousands of families face raising children who step outside of
the pink or blue box. Cleis Press, www.cleispress.com,
2008, ISBN 978-1-57344-318-0 
Brown, Mildred and Chloe Ann Rounsley, True
Selves: Understanding transsexualism for families, friends,
coworkers, and helping professionals. Filled with wisdom and
understanding, this book paints a vivid portrait of the conflicts
transsexuals face on a daily basis - the courage they must summon
as they struggle to reveal their true being to themselves and
others. This classic resource offers valuable guidance for
friends, families, coworkers and professionals who are struggling
to understand these people and their situations. Using real life
stories, actual letters and other compelling examples, the book
gives a clear understanding of what it means to be transsexual and
offers practical suggestions for dealing compassionately with
these commonly misunderstood individuals. Jossey-Bass, www.josseybass.com,
2003 ISBN 978-0-7879-6702-4 
Califia, Pat, Sex
Changes: The politics of transgenderism, Pat
Califia. Who would you be if you had never been punished for
gender-inappropriate behavior? What would it be like to
grow up in a society where gender was truly
consensual? If the rite of passage was to name your own
gender at adolescence, or upon your transition into
adulthood? What would it be like to walk down the
street, go to work, or attend a party and take it for granted that
the gender of the people you met would not be the first thing you
ascertained about them? If you could change your sex as
effortlessly in reality as you can in virtual reality, and change
it back again, would you like to try it at least
once? (Ed. Burning Man, or the Bohemian Grove, or the
Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia with the Mummers,
corporate men dressed in drag-for-a-day.) What would it be like to
live in a society where you could take a vacation from
gender? Or, even more importantly, from other people's
gender? What if we all helped each other to manifest our most
beautiful, sexy, intelligent, creative and adventurous inner
selves, instead of cooperating to suppress them? If these
questions frighten, offend or annoy you, you are one of the people
who stand to benefit from transactivism - although it probably
doesn't feel like your benefactor. And if these questions amuse,
engage and challenge you, you're probably a transactivist already.
Welcome to the genderevolution. Cleis Press1997
ISBN 1-57344-072-8 Buy
this book!
Christian, M., editor, Transgender
Erotica: Trans figures. Explore the boundless terrain of
transgender sensuality! This is an erotic anthology that
explores the creative limits of human sexuality - the transgender
experience. There are beautifully crafted tales of heat and
desire, always stimulating, always thoughtful, always real.
Harrington Park Press, www.haworthpress.com,
2006, ISBN 1-56023-491-1 
Erhardt, Virginia, Head Over
Heels: Wives who stay with cross-dressers and
transsexuals. This book gives voice to thirty ordinary women
who live extraordinary lives as partners to cross-dressers,
transgenderists, and male-to-female transsexuals. These unique
women discuss, with honesty and great candor, how they first
learned of their partners' gender issues, now they've coped with
the emotions that followed, how they're dealt with concerns about
privacy/secrecy, and how they've handled disclosure to children,
friends, and family members. Far from a collection of "happily
ever after" stories, these narratives are filled with pain,
courage, curiosity and joy as each woman struggles to redefine a
relationship that includes intimacy, social acceptance, dignity
and respect. Haworth Presss, www.HaworthPress.com,
2007,ISBN 0-7890-3095-0 
Just Evelyn (Hallie Horowitz), Mom,
I need to be a girl. According to the American Academy of
Pediatrics, "A child's awareness of being a boy or girl
begins in the first year of life. Their gender identity is stable
by age 4 and they know that they will always be a boy or a
girl." Sexual orientation is different than gender identity.
Gender Variance does not mean that your child will grow up to
identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual. This true story is about a
young boy who received a kind of help from his mother than some
children need, but almost none receive. Daniel should have been
born a girl. In these pages, you will meet Daniel's father who
believes that sexual reassignment is against God. You'll follow
the fencing matches with bureaucrats and the contest of wills with
councilors whose skills are so often limited to dream-obstruction
and fee collection. Most importantly, you'll read how Daniel's
courageous and superbly understanding mother helped Daniel to
become the charming, irrepressible Danielle, despite a globe full
of minor tyrants, tunnel vision functionaries, buffoons, financial
opportunists, and misguided do-gooders trying to present it. The
author has met Danielle, now 19, after having heard and been
entertained by her exploits every week for months during my
electrolysis sessions with her mother. She was deeply impressed.
Danielle's fitness for life as a teenage girl and success at it,
as well as her happiness and maturity bring glad, wistful tears to
my much older eyes - wistful, because she, to, is a transsexual.
She lived through Danielle's childhood experiences of having the
wrong body, but because she grew up in the 50's and 60's, and
because of the less communicative, sexually repressed atmosphere
of her family, she had to go through full male puberty, attend
male gym classes, deal with bullies, and miss out on many years of
shopping and dating. She hit every stump, bramble bush and pothole
that waits for us folk who hack out way along the wrong road of
life. But it's 1998 now, and things are changing. Danielle's
experience is one of the first in what promises to be a new and
better era for people like her and like the author. Just Evelyn,
2007, ISBN 978-1-4196-8438-8 
Feinberg, Leslie,
Transgender Warriors: Making history from Joan of
Arc to Dennis Rodman. "Are you a guy or a girl?" the author
had been asked forever. The answer was not so simple, since there
are no pronouns in the English language to give an appropriate
description. The history is filled with militant hero/ines. Yet
therein lies the rub! The author's difficulty in the
battles when the words woman and man, feminine and masculine, are
almost the only words that exist to describe all the vicissitudes
of bodies and styles of expression? Words have been developed, but
they cut and sear as they are yelled out of windows of screeching
cars filled with potential bashers. The author has been called a
he-she, butch, bulldagger, cross-dresser, passing woman,
female-to-male transvestite, and drag king. So, the words the
author uses may become outdated in a very short time, because the
transgender movement is still young and defining itself. It's not
aimed at defining but at defending the diverse communities that
are coalescing. The word preferred is transgender. So,
Transgender Warriors. It's not an exhaustive trans history
or even the history of the rise and development of the modern
trans movement. Instead, it is a fresh look at sex and gender in
history and the interrelationships of class, nationality, race,
and sexuality. Have all societies recognized only two
sexes? Have people who traversed the boundaries of sex
and gender always been so demonized? Why is
sex-reassignment or cross-dressing a matter of law? Beacon Press,
1996 ISBN 0-8070-7941-3 Buy
This Book!
Green, Jamison, Becoming a Visible Man.
In this artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender,
leading transsexual activist Jamison Green combines candid
autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into
the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual
experience, ranging from encounters with prejudice and strained
relationships with family to the development of an FTM community
and the realities of surgical sex reassignment. Brimming with
frank and often poignant recollections of Green’s own
experiences-including his childhood struggles with identity and
his years as a lesbian parent prior to his sex-reassignment
surgery-the book examines transsexualism as a human condition and
sex reassignment as one of the choices that some people feel
compelled to make in order to manage their gender variance.
Vanderbilt University Press, www.vanderbilt.edu/vupress
2004 ISBN 0-8265-1457-X 
Lev, Arlene Istar, Transgender
Emergence: Therapeutic guildelines for working with
gender-variant people and their families. This comprehensive
book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the
issues facing transgendered and transsexual people and their
families. It views assessment and treatment through a
nonpathologizing lens that honors human diversity and acknowledges
the role of oppression in the developmental process of gender
identity formation. Specific sections address the needs of
gender-variant people as well as transgendered children and youth.
The issues facing gender-variant populations who have not been the
focus of clinical care - such as intersexed people, female-to-male
transgendered people, and those who identify as bigendered - are
also addressed. www.choicesconsulting.com.
Haworth Clinical Practice Press, www.haworthpress.com,
2004, ISBN 0-7890-2127-X 
Pfafflin, Friedemann, Walter Bockting, Eli
Coleman, Richard Ekins, Dave King editors. Interantional
Journal of Transgenderism. This is an important addition to
the sexological field, relebant to researchers, students,
educators and clinicians. It addresses the gender spectrum with
timely and helpful articles. This is particularly important to
those working in the transgender population. There is a wealth of
material in this journal that will help to fill the gap in our
understanding, knowledge and skill development. www.haworthpress.com/web/IJT
vol 8, #1, 2005
Steinberg, David, Divas of San
Francisco: Portraits of transsexual women.For the last
five years, the author has been photographing transsexual women
who frequent San Francisco's Divas Nightclub and Bar, the most
prominent transgender club in the U.S. With this collection of
intimate, revealing portraits, he honors the individuality,
diversity and fierce integrity of a group of people who are
alternately ignored and fetishized, but rarely acknowledged and
appreciated for who they really are. These 59 full-page color
portraits of transsexual dancers, bartenders, lip-sync performers,
disc jockeys, regulars, and visitors reach beneath an often
glamorous surface to present a broad spectrum of remarkable women
in all their complexity - their joy, sadness, strength,
uncertainty, toughness, vulnerability and, most of all, their
courage in embracing the core of who they know themselves to be in
the face of a misunderstanding, frightened, and often hostile
world. Red Alder Books, 2008, ISBN 0-914906-05-6
Or send a check for $25 made out to David Steinberg, PO Box
641312, San Francisco, CA 96164.
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