A Bibliography of Resources on Gender Variance, Transgender and Intersex Topics

When searching the library catalog for further resources, the following subject terms may be useful, if not always preferred: transsexualism, transsexuals, transvestites, transvestism, drag queens, female impersonators, drag kings, male impersonators, gender identity, hermaphrodites and hermaphroditism.

A section of books for gender-variant and transsexual children and their families can be found at the end.

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Addams, Calpernia
Mark 947: A Life Shaped by God, Gender and Force of Will. New York: Writers Club Press, 2003. Addams explores her life from the hills of Tennessee, to the first Gulf War, to the fulfillment of her dream of becoming a woman. An especially poignant story given the bias- based killing of Addams’ soldier boyfriend. (see: A Soldier’s Girl in the VIDEOS-DRAMA section).  B Ad2a 

Allen, J.J.
The Man in the Red Velvet Dress:  Inside the World of Cross Dressing. New York: Carol Pub. Group, 1996. Addressing a general audience, Allen explores a variety of reasons for male cross-dressing and discusses different types of cross-dressers.   306.77 AL53m    

Allen, Mariette Pathy
The Gender Frontier.  Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2003. Photographer Allen documents the lives of a number of transgender people who have chosen varying degrees of physical alteration in their quests to live authentically.  306.768 AL541g   

Allen, Mariette Pathy
Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them. New York: Dutton, c1989. Cross-dressers are shown in daily life through photographs and interviews.  306.77 AL54t   

Anders, Charles
The Lazy Crossdresser. Emeryville, CA: Greenery Press, c2002.  Cross-dresser Anders gives advice about shopping, make-up, dating, and more.       306.77 An226L      

Andrei, Claudia
Transgender Underground: [London and the third sex]. London: Glitter Books, 2002. Through interviews and photographs, Andrei explores (and dispels) myths about transsexuals, transvestites, drag queens and gender-queer individuals.  305.3896 An25t    

Baird, Vanessa
The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity. Oxford: New Internationalist, 2007.  Looks at medical, scientific, and legal issues in regard to sexual diversity around the world.   306.76 B164n 2007       

Baker, Roger
Drag: A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts.   Washington Square, NY:  New York University Press, 1994.  792.028 B176d 1994 

Ball, Edward 
Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of a Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love. New York: Simon & Schuster, c2004. A sex-change, an interracial marriage, and a baby of mysterious origin are only a few of the features of this compelling story. B Si466b    

Barbin, Herculine
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite. New York: Pantheon Books, c1980. The diary of a French hermaphrodite who committed suicide after being forced to live as a man, and separated from the woman he loved.616.69 B234h    

Beam, Cris
Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers.   Harcourt, 2007. After volunteer teaching transgender and queer teens in a "last hope" school in Los Angeles, Beam finds herself getting further involved with some of them, ultimately unofficially foster-parenting Christina.  306.768 B37t       

Bergman, S. Bear
Butch is a Noun.   San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts Press, 2006.  Berger writes about butchness and other forms of being a gender outlaw.  306.768 B4543b 

Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others. Jonathan Alexander, Karen Yescavage, editors. Co-published simultaneously as "Journal of bisexuality," Volume 3, Number 3-4, 2003. Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press, c2003. Academics and activists explore the B and T of GLBT, challenging the Gay and Lesbian communities to be more inclusive.  306.765 B54155   

Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing. Richard Ekins and Dave King, editors.  London; New York: Routledge, 1996. A somewhat academic look at the transvestite and transgender experience.  306.77 B617   

Bloom, Amy
Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Cross-Dressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites With Attitude. New York: Random House, 2002. Novelist and psychotherapist Bloom writes sensitively about male-to-female transsexuals, heterosexual male cross-dressers, and intersexed individuals—and challenges readers to question their concepts of gender.306.77 B6232n    

Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity.  Edited by Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub.  New York:  Routledge, 1991.  392.6 B6315

Bornstein, Kate
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. New York: Routledge, 1994. Male-to-female transsexual Bornstein challenges the gender binary in this auto-biographical work. 305.3 B645g

Bornstein, Kate
My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely.  New York; London: Routledge, 1998. Transgender activist Bornstein provides a series of provoking questions that encourage each of us to look at where we fall on the gender spectrum.305.3 B645m

Boyd, Helen
My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser.  New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003. An honest account of a wife’s evolving feelings about her cross-dressing husband.  306.778 B6925m    

Boyd, Helen
She’s Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband.   Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2007.  Boyd discusses the intricacies of her relationship with her pre-op transgender husband.  306.848 B6925s   

Boylan, Jennifer Finney 
I’m Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted.   Broadway Books, 2008. MCN B BOYLAN J 

Boylan, Jennifer Finney
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders.  New York: Broadway Books, 2003. With a good dose of humor, Boylan recounts her forty years in the wrong body, and her transition to the woman she is today.  B B696a 

Brevard, Aleshia 
The Woman I Was Not Born to Be: A Transsexual Journey. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. Brevard describes her experiences growing up male in Tennessee, working as a drag artist in San Francisco in the early 1960s, and transitioning into womanhood.B B7573a      

Brown, Mildred L. 
True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism—for Family, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996. From childhood questions and teen fears, to therapy, surgery and beyond, the authors cover the transsexual experience. 305.3 B814t 

Brubach, Holly 
Girlfriend: Men, Women, and Drag. New York: Random House, 1999. A sympathetic look at the world of male cross-dressing and drag, accompanied by extensive photographs. 306.77 B83g   

Bullough, Vern L. and Bonnie Bullough
Cross Dressing, Sex and Gender.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. Professors Vern and Bonnie Bullough provide an historical and cultural overview of cross-dressing and gender presentation for both gender scholars and the general public.  Electronic Resource.

Burke, Phyllis
Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female.  New York: Anchor Books, 1996. Burke holds that gender is a social construct and argues for gender independence.  305.3 B917g    

Califia-Rice, Patrick
Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism. San Francis co: Cleis Press, 2nd edition, 2003. Looking at the lives of transgender pioneers and present-day gender radicals; biology, feminism, and social construct, Califia-Rice challenges our notions of gender.  305.9066 C128s 2003 

Cameron, Loren
Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits.  Pittsburgh, PA: Cleis Press, 1996. Stunning photographs of male-to-female transsexuals accompanied by short personal comments.  305.3 C146b    

Casa Susanna.  Michael Hurst, Robert Swope, editors. New York: PowerHouse Books, 2005. Collection of photographs of cross-dressers relaxing together at their weekend house in the 1950s and 60s.  306.77 C26      

Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lore.  Randy P. Conner, David Hatfield Sparks, Mariya Sparks, Randy P. Connor, editors.  London; Herndon, VA: Cassell, 1997.  306.766 C762c 

Challenging Lesbian Norms: Intersex, Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer Perspectives. Angela Pattatucci Aragon, editor.  306.7663 C3527    

Chermayeff, Catherine, et. al
Drag Diaries. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.  A collection of interviews with drag queens. 306.77 C423d   

Cohen-Kettenis, Peggy Tine
Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence: Making Choices: Vol. 46. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003. Aimed at the professional community, this volume explores medical, psychological, and legal issues related to transgender and inter-sexed children and teens.  305.3 C6605t 

Colapinto, John
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl.  New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. After a botched circumcision, Bruce was raised as a girl, creating a severe case of gender dysphoria as he grew up. Tragically, he committed suicide after the publication of this book.  305.9066 C67a   

Conella, Katherine
Sugar And Spice And Puppy Dog Tails: Growing Up Intersexed: An Intimate Memoir.   Hollywood, CA: K. Connella, 2000.  B C76195a 

Cope, Allison
Transaccessibility Project: Making Women’s Shelters Accessible to Transgendered Women.  [Kingston], Ont.: Violence Intervention and Education Workgroup, VIEW, 1999. www.queensu.ca/humanrights/tap/index.html

Cortez, Jaime
Sexile/Sexilio. Los Angeles:  Institute for Gay Men’s Health, c2004. Bi-lingual graphic memoir tells the story of a Cuban exile who first thinks he’s gay, then realizes he’s really transgendered.  306.768 C8187s    

Cromwell, Jason
Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities. Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. An academic exploration of the experience of "female-bodied" men informed by discourse analysis and feminist theory.  305.9066 C88t 

Crossing the Stage: Controversies on Cross-Dressing. Leslie Ferris, editor. London; New York: Routledge, 1993. Looks at the history of cross-dressing as performance art. 792.028 C884      

Currah, Paisley
Transgender Equality: a Handbook for Activists and Policymakers. San Francisco, CA: National Center for Lesbian Rights; New York, NY: Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 2000.  342.7308 C936t 

Current Concepts in Transgender Identity. Dallas Denny, editor. New York: Garland Pub., 1998. Contributors explore historical, social, medical, personal, and theoretical aspects of transgenderism.  305.9066 C936   

Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health. Jay Harcourt, editor.  New York: Harrington Park Press, c2006. 613.0866 C9364   

Darling, Candy
My Face for All the World to See: the Diaries, Letters, and Drawings of Candy Darling. Jeremiah Newton, Francesca Passalacqua & D.E. Hardy, editors.  Honolulu : Handy Marks Publications, c1997.  Andy Warhol associate Slatterly, aka Candy Darling reveals herself.  792.028 D249a    

Dekker, Rudolf and Lotte C. van de Pol
The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe.  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.  392.6 D369t    

Devor, Holly
FTM: Female to Male Transsexuals in Society. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. Devor presents a sympathetic and easily understandable portrait of FTMs as they learn about themselves and their identity, through interviews she conducted.  306.77 D498f    

Devor, Holly
Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits of Duality.   Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.  305.42 D498g 

The Drag King Anthology. Donna Jean Troka, Kathleen LeBesco, Jean Bobby Noble, editors.  New York: Harrington Park Press, c2002. Firstperson narratives combined with academic theory. See Volcano, The Drag King Book for a less academic approach.  306.76 D784    

The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators.  Steven P. Schacht, Lisa Underwood, editors.  New York: Harrington Park Press, c2004. Contributors look at the world of drag from a variety of social and academic disciplines.  305.3 D784      

Dreger, Alice Domurat
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.  An historical look at intersexuality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; drawing on both medical literature and personal accounts; with a chapter on the treatment of inter-sexed individuals today. 616.694 D812h   

Dugaw, Dianne
Warrior Women and Popular Balladry: 1650-1850. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 1989. Dugaw explores the fascination with cross-dressing women in British popular culture.  821.044 D8788w 1996 

Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America. Marc Stein, editor in chief.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/Thomson/Gale, 2004.  306.766 En192

Erhardt, Virginia
Head Over Heels: Wives who stay with Cross-Dressers and Transsexuals.  New York: Haworth Press, 2007.  306.8723 Er39h   

Ethics and Intersex. Sharon Systma, editor. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, c2006.  An anthology of writings on legal, medical, psychological, religious, and social aspects of various treatments imposed upon intersexed individuals.  616.694 Et373    

Farrell-Roberts, Janine
The Seven Days Of My Creation : Tales Of Magic, Sex And Gender. San Jose, CA: Writers Club Press, c2002.  Born intersexed, ordained as a Catholic Priest, Farrell-Roberts now identifies as a woman.  B F2477a    

Fausto-Sterling, Anne
 Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000. Considering medical, scientific and social concepts of sex and gender, Fausto-Sterling convincingly argues that one’s physical characteristics don’t necessarily equate with one’s gender.  155.33 F275s    

Feinberg, Leslie
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Boston: Beacon Press, c1998. Essays by Feinberg and others on the complexity of gender expression.  305.9066 F327t 

Feinberg, Leslie
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. Feinberg takes a look at transgender issues and persons throughout history.  305.3 F327t 1996    

Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity.  Tracie O’Keefe and Katrina Fox, editors.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, c2003. Transgendered individuals talk about their personal experiences in this anthology.  306.77 F492    

From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond.  Morty Diamond, editor.  San Francisco: Manic D Press, c2004. Diamond gathers the stories of a group of female-to-male transsexuals and self-defined gender-queers in this moving anthology.  810.8092 F9258 

Garber, Marjorie B.
Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. New York: Routledge, 1992, 1997. Garber examines the cultural significance of transvestites, particularly in the performing arts, in different historical periods and cultures. 306.77 G163v    

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Myths from the Arapaho to the Zuñi: an anthology. Jim Elledge, editor. New York : Peter Lang, c2002.  398.2089 G252    

Gender Blending.  Bonnie Bullough, Vern L. Bullough and James Elias, editors. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997. A collection of academic papers on cross-dressing and transgenderism, with some interest for the general reader. 305.3 G285   

Gender Nonconformity, Race, and Sexuality: Charting the Connections. Toni Lester, editor. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. Includes articles both theoretical and personal, exploring the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality, from a social sciences perspective.  305.3 G2853

Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary.  Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, Riki Anne Wilchins, editors. Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2002. First-person accounts, set within a framework of gender studies and gender politics, look at what it’s like to be genderqueer.  810.8035 G285   

Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood: Disputing U.S. Polemics. Stanlie M. James, Claire C. Robertson, editors. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c2002. Considers the sexual assignment of inter-sexed infants in a broader context. 392.14 G287 

Gilbert, Ruth
Early Modern Hermaphrodites: Sex and Other Stories.  New York: Palgrave, 2002. Gilbert examines the ways in which inter-sexed individuals were viewed medically, erotically, legally, and literarily in Britain from the 16th to the 18th centuries.  616.694 G376e 

Green, Jamison
Becoming a Visible Man. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. Transgender activist Green discusses the medical, social and legal aspects of gender change within the context of his own experiences. B G82315a 

Griggs, Claudine
Journal of Sex Change: Passage Through Trinidad. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., c1996. Griggs discusses her sex change from decision, through surgery, and beyond.  B G87598a 2004   

Griggs, Claudine
S/he: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes. Oxford, UK; New York: Berg, 1998. Transwoman Griggs explores the pressures to conform to gender stereotypes that transgender individuals face.  305.9066 G876s 

Halberstam, Judith
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives.  New York: University Press 2005. Halberstam explores the expression of transgender masculinity in popular culture and within the transgender and lesbian communities.  306.768 H1289i   

Harris, Daniel
 Diary of a Drag Queen. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005.  In an attempt to meet more men, Harris explores the world of Drag Queens.  B H2402a2 

Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association
The Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders. Düsseldorf [Germany]: Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, 6^th version, 2001. The controversial standards of care which most transgender clients are subjected to in order to obtain the hormones and surgery of their choice. www.symposion.com/ijt/soc_2001/index.htm. Also available in Spanish and Croation at  www.wpath.org/publications_standards.cfm.

The Health of Sexual Minorities:  Public Health Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations. New York: Springer, 2007. 362.1086 H3496 

Healthy People 2010: Companion Document for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health.  San Francisco, CA: Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (459 Fulton St., Suite 107, San Francisco 94102), 2001. www.glma.org/_data/n_0001/resources/live/HealthyCompanionDoc3.pdf

Heath, Rachel Ann
The Praeger Handbook of Transsexuality. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2006. Explores history, psychology, legal, social issues, and more, including a section on inter-sex individuals.  306.768 H3519p 

Holmes, Rachel
Scanty Particulars: The Scandalous Life and Astonishing Secret of James Barry, Queen Victoria’s Most Eminent Military Doctor.  New York: Viking, 2002. James Miranda Barry, a girl (or possibly a hermaphrodite) was raised as a boy, and grew up to serve as a British Army physician.  B B2787h 2002 

Hotchkiss, Valerie R.
Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe.  New York: Garland Pub., 2000, c1996. Examining religious, literary, and historical sources, Hotchkiss looks at the phenomenon of, and fascination with female cross-dressing in the Middle Ages.  306.7709 H797c 2000 

Howey, Noelle
Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods – My Mother’s, My Father’s, and Mine. New York: Picador USA, 2002. Howey was a teenager when she learned that her emotionally distant father liked to dress in women’s clothes, and she recounts the family’s struggles to adjust when he left and began to live as a woman.  306.874 H8398d   

Hunter, Nan
The Rights of Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, and Transgender People: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender Person’s Rights.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, Fourth Edition, 2004. 342.087 H918r 2004 

Intersex in the Age of Ethics.  Alice Domurat Dreger, editor. Hagerstown, MD: University Pub. Group, 1999.  Professionals, parents, and inter-sexed individuals weigh in on current treatment modalities and theories. 174.2 In88

Israel, Gianna E.
Transgender Care: Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information, and Personal Accounts. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. While written for healthcare professionals, this is an approachable book for a general audience.  362.1086 Is7t 

Jorgensen, Christine
Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography. Introduction by Susan Stryker.  San Francisco:  Cleis Press, c2000. Jorgensen shocked the world with her public male-to-female transition in the 1950s, and went on to have a successful career in the entertainment industry.  B J7675a 2000 

Kaesar, Gigi
Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Families. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Perhaps the first book to feature a trangender parent.  For all ages. 306.874 K118L    

Kailey, Matt
Just Add Hormones: An Insider’s Guide to the Transsexual Experience. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.  Kailey describes the complex physical, emotional, and practical issues involved in transitioning from female to male.  306.768 K1228j

Kailey, Matt
Tranifesto: Selected Columns and Other Ramblings from a Transgendered Mind. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2002.  305.9066 K1228t    

Kaldera, Raven
Hermaphrodeities: The Transgender Spirituality Workbook. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corp., 2001.  291.4408 K124h 

Kates, Gary
Monsieur D’Eon is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade. New York: BasicBooks, c1995.  D’On, a French diplomat was declared to be female by Louis XVI, but was discovered to be male upon his death.  B Eo56k 

Kennedy, Pagan
The First Man-Made Man:  The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth Century Medical Revolution.  New York: Bloomsbury, 2007. The rather sad story of a largely unrequited relationship between Michael Dillon (formerly Laura), and Roberta Cowell (formerly Robert).   B D5876k 2007 

Kessler, Suzanne J.
Lessons from the Intersexed.  New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998.  Kessler examines the medical and social constructs of gender and asks whether inter-sexed individuals are well-served by either.  616.694 K485L 

Khosla, Dhillon
Both Sides Now:  One Man’s Journey through Womanhood.   New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2006.  FTM Khosla reveals himself to be interestingly misogynistic in his views of women in this memoir.  B K5279a    

Kilmer-Purcell, Josh
I Am Not Myself These Days. New York: Harper Perennial, c2006.  In this sad and funny memoir, Kilmer-Purcell recounts his multiple secret lives, including that of a drug and alcohol addicted transvestite.  306.778 K558i   

Kotula, Dean
The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals.  Los Angeles, CA: Alyson Books, c2002. Photographs and essays chart the FTM experience. 305.9066 K849p

Lake, Bambi
The Unsinkable Bambi Lake: a Fairy Tale Containing the Dish on Cockettes, Punks, and Angels.  San Francisco: Manic D. Press, c1996.  B L1479a 

Lang, Sabine
Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. Provides a historical and cultural overview of the role of the berdache, a person considered to be neither male nor female, but a third gender, or perhaps fourth gender in many Native American cultures. 305.3089 L256m 

Lev, Arlene Istar
Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families.  New York: Haworth Clinical Practice Press, c2004. A book for the mental health practitioner, presenting transgenderism as a normal variation of human expression.  616.8583 L574t   

Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities.  Dawn Atkins, editor.  New York: Harrington Park Press, c1998.  While focusing largely on eating disorders and body image obsession as it relates to the queer community, this book addresses concerns of inter-sexed and transgendered individuals.  306.766 L872       

Mahlsdorf, Charlotte von
I Am My Own Woman: The Outlaw Life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Berlin’s Most Distinguished Transvestite.  Pittsburgh, PA: Cleis Press, 1995. Charlotte survived the war on his lesbian aunt’s farm in East Prussia and went on to have an unusual life.  B M2778a 

McCloskey, Deirdre N.
Crossing: A Memoir.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. McCloskey reveals years of turmoil as a secret cross-dresser, and the difficulties she was forced to endure when she came out as transsexual.  305.9066 M132c   

Meyerowitz, Joanne J.
How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.  Looking at transsexuals, famous and not so famous, the doctors performing or withholding the surgeries, and the liberation movements of recent decades, Meyerowitz provides a good historical overview of transsexuality.  305.9066 M575h    

Middlebrook, Diane Wood
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Married and a father, Tipton performed on the jazz circuit for nearly 50 years, only to be revealed to be a woman at death.  305.9066 M584s    

Morris, Jan
Pleasures of a Tangled Life. New York: Random House, 1989. Autobiography of the travel writer and early transsexual  B M83234a 1989; see also Morris’ Conundrum. 306.768 M8325c 2006 

Moser, Charles, Dr.
Health Care without Shame: A Handbook for the Sexually Diverse and their Caregivers. San Francisco, CA: Greenery Press, c1999. 362.1086 M853h   

Namaste, Viviane K.
Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. A scholarly study of transsexuals and cross-dressers.  305.9066 N15i 

Nanda, Serena
Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Belmont, CA. Wadsworth Pub. Co, 1990. A cultural study of Hijras, a group of voluntary eunuchs who serve a spiritual function within their communities. 305.3095 N1538n 1999 

Newton, Esther
Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Lesbian anthropologist Newton explores the inside world of the professional drag queen.  392.6 N482m 1979 

Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity. Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, editor.  This collection of essays explores the impossibilities of "belonging" and passing as a sexual minority. 306.76 N669 

Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up With Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered Parents. Noelle Howey, Ellen Samuels, editors. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000. These essays by adult children deal honestly and compassionately with the issues involved in growing up in a GLBT family at a time when being GLBT was even less accepted than it is today.  306.874 Ou8 

Phillips, John
Transgender on Screen.   Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.  791.4365 P5444t 

Pratt, Minnie Bruce
S/HE. Los Angeles: Alyson Publications, 2004 (reprint).A brave memoir by Pratt that covers her coming to terms with being a lesbian in the South, and her life with her husband, trans-activist Leslie Feinberg.  305.4896 P889s

Preventing Prejudice: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Lesson Plans for Elementary Schools.  San Francisco:  Buena Vista Lesbian and Gay Parents Group, 1999.  305.9066 P914 

Preves, Sharon E.
Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003. Based on interviews with adult inter-sexed individuals, Preves shows that medical intervention often causes more problems than it prevents.  616.694 P9289i    

Ramsey, Gerald
Transsexuals: Candid Answers to Private Questions. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1996. Although a bit dated, Ramsey addresses many of the concerns and questions of the transgendered person and his or her family and friends.  305.3 R149t 

Raz, Aaron and Hilda Raz
What Becomes You. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.  Transsexual son and mother collaborate on this memoir.  306.768 L6482w

Reddy, Gayatri
With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.  Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia for a religious role, garnering both respect and stigmatization.  305.3095 R2467w    

Richards, Renee with John Ames
Second Serve: The Renee Richards Story.  New York:  Stein & Day, 1983. The biography of transsexual tennis star and ophthalmologist, Richards. B R3923a 

Richards, Renee with John Ames
No Way Renee:  The Second Half of My Notorious Life.   New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2007.  B R3923a2 

Roscoe, Will
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. Combining individual stories with well-grounded research, Roscoe explores the role of the Native American berdache, known to exist in over 150 Native American tribes.  305.3089 R719c 2000 

Roscoe, Will
Zuni Man-Woman.  Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.  Roscoe explores the "third gender" role available in Zuni society, and discusses the impact of gender roles in various societies.  392.6 R719z    

Rothblatt, Martine Aliana
The Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender.  New York: Crown Publishers, 1995.  Rothblatt argues that the limiting of gender expression to male and female, based on biology is an artificial construction.  305.3 R742a   

Roughgarden, Joan
Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender and Sexuality in Nature and People. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.  Roughgarden explores the gender and sexual diversity found in humans and nature, and examines the social barriers to acceptance of human diversity.  305.3 R755e 

Rudacille, Deborah
The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights. New York: Pantheon, 2005.  Case histories, historical and scientific research, and interviews with activists inform Rudacille’s even-handed look at the issues surrounding transgenderism.  306.768 R83r 

Rudd, Peggy J.  
Crossdressing with Dignity: The Case for Transcending Gender Lines. Katy, TX: PM Publishers, 1999. A book for the male crossdresser and his family, urging self-acceptance, better communication, and dignity.  306.77 R831c 1999

Rudd, Peggy J.
My Husband Wears My Clothes: Crossdressing from the Perspective of a Wife.  Katy, TX: PM Publishers, 1999.  Dr. Rudd addresses the concerns and questions of spouses and family of mostly heterosexual male cross-dressers.  306.77 R831m 

RuPaul
 Letting it all Hang Out: An Autobiography.  New York: Hyperion, 1995. The cross-dressing performer tells it like it is—or was.  B R8766a 

Scholinski, Daphne
The Last Time I Wore a Dress.  New York: Riverhead Books, c1997. Scholinski, now living as a man, was institutionalized for three years in the 1980s in part for her "failure to identify as a sexual female."  B Sch6297a    

Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs. Jonathan Ames, editor. New York: Vintage, 2005. Fifteen selections from famous (Christine Jorgensen, Renee Richards) to less-well-known transgender individuals.  306.768 Se92 

Sharpe, Andrew N.  
Transgender Jurisprudence: Dysphoric Bodies of Law.  London: Cavendish, 2002. Sharpe examines and challenges the body of law to which transgendered persons may find themselves subjected.  342.087 Sh24t

Sheridan, Vanessa
Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian.  Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2001. Both a record of a personal journey, and a call to action to the Christian community.  261.8357 Sh535c

Simmons, Dawn Langley
 Dawn: A Charleston Legend. Charleston, SC: Wyrick, c1995. Raised as a boy in England, Dawn had sex reassignment surgery in the United States, and created a stir in Charleston society by marrying a black man and having a baby.  B Si466a 

Sissies and Tomboys: Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood.  Matthew Rottnek, editor. New York: New York University Press, c1999. Questioning the diagnosis of gender identity disorder, this book posits what a gender-queer childhood could be like without the attached stigmas.  618.9285 Si83 

Sullivan, Louis
From Female to Male: The Life of Jack B. Garland.  Boston: Alyson Publications, Inc., 1990.  Garland, born a female, was a well-known cross-dresser and self-identified male who lived in San Francisco from the late 1880s until his death in the 1930s.  B G1833s 

Swan, Rebecca
Assume Nothing. Tübingen: Konkursbuch, Boy Tiger Press, 2004. www.rebeccaswan.com.  Stunning black and white photographs accompanied by brief interviews explore many different embodiments of gender.  779.2092 Sw24as   

Tanis, Justin Edward
Trans-Gendered: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, c2003. A transgender minister discusses the place of the transgender person within religious communities.  230.0866 T1569t

Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History.   Gilbert Herdt, editor.  New York: Zone Books, 1994. These essays explore the concepts of a third gender in various cultures within an historical context.  305.3 T348   

Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones.  Mary Boenke, editor. Imperial Beach, CA: Walter Trook Pub., 1999. Family members of transgendered individuals talk about their feelings and experiences as they strive to accept the changes in their loved one. Includes a section on raising gender-queer children.  305.9066 T687; 306.768 T687 2003   

Transgender and HIV: Risks, Prevention, and Care.  Walter Bockting, Sheila Kirk, editors. New York: Haworth Press, c2001.  616.9792 T6873 

Transgender Issues in the Workplace: A Tool for Managers.  Washington, D.C.: Human Rights Campaign, 2004. www.nmmstream.net/hrc/downloads/publications/tgtool.pdf

Transgender Rights. Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Price Minter, editors.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2006.  323.326 T6873    

Transgender Studies Reader.  Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, editors.  New York: Routledge, 2006. 306.768 T6873 

Tyler, Carol-Anne
Female Impersonation.  New York: Routledge, 2003. If gender is an artifice, is not all presentation of gender a masquerade or impersonation? Tyler provides a feminist and psychoanalytic look at gender presentation as performance. 305.4201 T971f 

Uranian Worlds: A Guide to Alternative Sexuality in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.Eric Garber, Lyn Paleo, editors. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall,  Second edition, 1990.  016.8088 G163u 1990 

Valerio, Max W. 
The Testosterone Files:  My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male.   Emeryville, CA:  Seal Press, 2006.  Former lesbian, feminist Valerio writes of his transition to maleness.  B V2372a 

Vera, Veronica
Miss Vera’s Cross-Dress for Success: A Resource Guide for Boys Who Want to Be Girls.  New York: Villard, c2002. Humorous and practical, this is an essential reference for the male cross-dresser.  306.77 V58m 

Virginia Prince: Pioneer of Transgendering.  Richard Ekins, Dave King, editors. New York: Haworth Medical Press, 2005.  306.778 V9356 

Volcano, Del Lagrace
The Drag King Book.  London: Serpent’s Tail, 1999. Interviews and photos reveal the world of the drag king.  306.77 V881d 

Volcano, Del Lagrace
Sublime Mutations: Photographs.  Tübingen: Konkursbuch Verlag, 2000. Artistic photographs of gender variant bodies powerfully challenge the gender binary.  779.2809 V881s

Walworth, Janis
Transsexual Workers: An Employer’s Guide.  Los Angeles, CA: Center for Gender Sanity, 2003. Basic information on transsexuality for managers, with an emphasis on managing an employee’s transition in the workplace. 306.768 W179t 2003

Walworth, Janis
Working with a Transsexual: A Guide for Co-Workers.  Los Angeles, CA: Center for Gender Sanity, 1999. Basic information on transsexuality for those in a workplace setting.  306.768 W179w   

Wheelwright, Julie
Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in the Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness. London; Boston: Pandora, 1990, c1989.   306.77 W571a 1990

Whittle, Stephen
Respect and Equality: Transsexual and Transgender Rights.  London; Portland, OR: Cavendish, 2002.  Discusses the inadequacies of current law and legal theory as it relates to transsexuals.  342.087 W619r 

Wilchins, Riki Anne
Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer.  Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2004. Gender activist Wilchins tries to unravel post-modern gender theory for the general reader.  306.7601 W642q 

Wilchins, Riki Anne
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender.  Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1997. Wilchins weaves together personal narrative and radical gender theory in a readable and challenging book.  B W6423a    

Williams, Walter L
The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.  Ethno-historian Williams explains the history, customs, and social role of the berdache in Native American cultures.  392.6 W676s 

Windmeyer, Shane L
The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students. New York : Alyson Books, 2006. 378.7302 W723a 

Zander, Erica
TransActions.  Stockholm: Periskop, c2003.  The memoir of a male-to-female transsexual who continues to live with her wife of thirty years.  306.768 Z15t 

Zderic, Stephan A
Pediatric Gender Assignment: A Critical Reappraisal.  New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers 2002. Recommended by the Intersex Society of North America.  618.9265 P3416   

PERIODICALS / ARTICLES	Top

Chrysalis: The Journal of Transgressive Gender Identities.The American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. Limited holdings: 305.9066 C468

Chrysalis: Special Issue on Intersexuality. 1997. Download: www.isna.org/books/chrysalis.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne
"The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough." The Sciences. March/April, 1993.  The Sciences (Online)

Hermaphrodites with Attitudes. San Francisco, CA, 1995-2005.  Publication ceased. However, it’s available for download at: www.isna.org/newsletter

International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies.  Continues Journal of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity.  New York: Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press, 2000-  306.7605 J826

Transgender Community News. Renaissance Transgender Association. 305.9066 T6865 and online.

Transgender Tapestry. Waltham, MA: International Foundation for Gender Education; Continues TV-TS Tapestry Journal.  305.305 T107 and online.

Transgender Treatment Bulletin. The American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. Decauter, GA: 1997— Limited holdings.

WEB SITES	Top

American Educational Gender Information: www.gender.org/aegis

Center for Gender Sanity: www.gendersanity.com

Gender Education and Advocacy: www.gender.org

Gender Public Advocacy Coalition: www.gpac.org; e-mail: gpac@gpac.org

Human Rights Campaign: www.hrc.org/issues/transgender.asp

International Foundation for Gender Education: www.ifge.org; e-mail: info@ifge.org

Intersex Society of North America: www.isna.org

Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund:  www.lambdalegal.org

National Center for Lesbian Rights, Transgender Information: www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=issue_transgender

National Transgender Library and Archive: www.gender.org/ntgla

PFLAG Transgender Network: www.pflag.org

Transfamily: www.transfamily.org

Transgender Forum: www.tgforum.com

Transgender Law & Policy Institute: www.transgenderlaw.org

Transgender Law Center: www.transgenderlawcenter.org

Transgender Parenting: www.transparentcy.org

Way Out Online: www.wayout-publishing.com

FICTION / LITERATURE	Top

Anders, Charlie
Choir Boy. Brooklyn, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2005.  Twelve-year-old Choir boy Berry’s voice is beginning to crack, so he takes drastic measures. F Anders C   

Best Transgender Erotica. Hanne Blank & Raven Kaldera, editors.  Cambridge, MA: Circlet, 2002. Twenty-some stories by writers of all genders, with something for everyone.  SHORTSTY S880: 2904 

Bohjalian, Christopher A
Trans-Sister Radio.  New York: Harmony Books, c2000. College professor Dana Stevens decides to transition from male to female shortly after starting a new relationship with a local schoolteacher, eliciting strong reactions from her and the community they live in.  F BohjaLia 2001    

Bouraoui, Nina  Tomboy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2007.  Nina, who is the daughter of an Arab Algerian father and a French mother, struggles not only with her cultural identity and expectations of her as a girl, but with her gender identity. F BOURAOUI    

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Memory.    Riverdale, NY: Baen, 1996.  Part of the Miles Vorkosigan intergalactic saga, this book includes a sympathetic male-to-female transsexual character.  SF BUJOLD L   

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Mirror Dance.  Riverdale, NY: Baen; New York: Distributed by Simon & Schuster, 1994.  Miles finds himself attracted to a hermaphrodite in this rip-roaring installment of Bujold’s Vorkosigan series.  SF BujoLd L   

Crane, Tristan and Ted Naifeh
How Loathsome.  New York: ComicsLit, c2004. Graphic novel exploration of San Francisco’s gender-queer culture.  GN Crane Tr   

Duncker, Patricia
The Doctor: A Novel.  New York: Ecco Press, 1999.  Based on the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, a girl (or possibly a hermaphrodite), raised as a boy, who grew up to serve as a British Army physician.  F Duncker 

Ebershoff, David. The Danish Girl: A Novel.  New York: Viking, 2000. Novel based on the true story of Danish artist Einar Wegener who, with the support of his wife, became a woman, Lili Elbe.  F Ebershof

Erdrich. Louise
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse.  New York: HarperCollins, c2001. Father Damien Modeste has kept a surprising secret for many long years. F Erdrich

Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002. This remarkable family saga spans continents and generations as it tells the story of the intersexed Cal who describes being born twice—once as a baby girl, and again as a teenaged boy. F Eugenide

Feinberg, Leslie.  Drag King Dreams.   New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006.  Max works as a bouncer at a gay bar, and has sunk into a state of apathetic gloom following 9/11. It takes the murder of a friend to stir him to action. F FEINBERG   

Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues: A Novel. Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, 1993, Alyson Books, 2003. Novel about a working class lesbian who lives as a man in the 1950s and ‘60s.  F Feinberg   

Flying Cups & Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Debbie Notkin & the Secret Feminist Cabal, editors.  Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1998.  SHORTSTY S880: 2495   

Gardner, James Alan
Commitment Hour.  New York: Avon Eos, 1998. In the community of Tober Cove, children change gender every year, but at twenty must choose one gender or another, or be banned from the community.  SF Gardner 

Gentle, Mary
Ilario: The Lion’s Eye, A Story of  the First History.   New York: Eos, [2007], c2006.  Set in an alternate medieval world, the intersexed slave, Ilario flees existence as a King’s toy when his/her mother tries to kill her/him. Hoping to pursue an education in painting, Ilario becomes dangerously pregnant following a brief encounter, is again enslaved, and travels one step ahead of his/her assassins. Book two, Ilario: The Stone Golem continues the story.  F GENTLE M 

Goranson, Alicia E.
Supervillainz.   San Francisco, CA:  Suspect Thoughts Press, 2006.  A group of trans and gender queer friends struggle to get through their everyday lives.  F GORANSON    

Goyen, William
Arcadio: A Novel. New York: C.N. Potter: Distributed by Crown Publishers, c1983. Arcadio has fled his/her life as a sideshow attraction to go in search of his mother who abandoned her/him to a life in a brothel as a child.  F Goyen Wi 1983   

Henderson, William Haywood
Native. New York: Dutton, 1993. Berdache Gilbert, serves as a catalyst for Blue Parker’s coming out.  F Henderso   

Howe, Julia Ward
The Hermaphrodite. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.  Written in the 1840s, but not published until now, this is the story of Laurence, a hermaphrodite raised as a boy, and fitting in nowhere.  F Howe JuL    

Kay, Jackie
Trumpet:  A Novel. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998. Jazz great Joss Moody has kept a secret from all but his wife, Millie.  F Kay Jack 

Le Guin, Ursula
Left Hand of Darkness. New York: Ace Books, 1976. A man encounters an alien culture where people are neuter except when mating, when they may become either male or female.  SF LeGuin U ; also available in Russian and Spanish.

Leigh, Stephen
Dark Water’s Embrace. New York: Avon/Eros, 1998. Can lesbian hermaphrodite Anais solve the problem of her people’s falling birthrate and near extinction although she has been exiled?  SF Leigh St ; TEEN SF Leig 

Lemus, Felicia Luna
Like Son: A Novel. New York: Akashic Books, c2007.  Frank, formerly Felicia, goes home to tend her dying father and face some family issues of the past and present.  F LEMUS FE 

LeRoy, J.T.
Sarah. New York: Bloomsbury, St. Martin’s, 2000. In this gritty and explicit novel, by discredited author, LeRoy, twelve-year-old Sarah, son of a truck stop hooker, turns tricks himself, dressed as a girl.  F LeRoy J    

Mamdūh, Āliyah
Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005.  Huda, a tomboy, faces with dread the advent of puberty when she must suddenly conform to Islamic expectations of womanhood.  F Mamdouh       

Marshall, Leslie
A Girl Could Stand Up: A Novel. New York: Grove Press, 2003. When six-year-old Elray’s parents are killed in an accident her, two uncles, Barkley and "Auntie Ajax" become her guardians.  F MarshaLL 

Maupin, Armistead
Michael Tolliver Lives. New York: HarperCollins, c2007.  Mrs. Madrigal and the other tenants of Barbary Lane are back for further adventures in the City.  F MAUPIN A    

McCabe, Patrick
Breakfast on Pluto. New York: HarperFlamingo, 1998. Man Booker Prize finalist about a transvestite prostitute fathered by a Catholic priest and raised in foster care.  F McCabe P 

Packer, Vin
Scott Free.   New York:  Carroll & Graf, 2007.  Transgender detective Scotti is on hand to solve a mystery in the Hamptons.  M PACKER V

Pollack, Rachel
A Secret Woman. New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002. Detective Simon Goldtree struggles with the truth as he tries to solve a mystery.  M PoLLack    

Sidor, Steven
Bone Factory. New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005.  Well-written, but gruesome mystery about the death of a transvestite prostitute.
M Sidor St 

String of Pearls: Stories about Cross-Dressing. Tony Ayres, editor. St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1996.   SHORTSTY S880: 2322      

Swados, Elizabeth
Flamboyant.   New York:  Picador, 1999.  Orthodox Jew, Chana Landeau accepts a teaching position at Manhattan’s Harvey Milk High School, and discovers that the girl she befriends is really a boy.  F Swados E

Transgender Erotica: Trans Figures. M. Christian, editor.  New York: Southern Tier Editions, Harrington Park Press, c2006.  F TRANSGEN    

Tremain, Rose
Sacred Country.  New York: Atheneum, 1993. The death of King George VI marks six-year-old Mary’s sudden and clear realization that she is really a boy in this novel that follows her through her childhood and ultimate transition.  F Tremain 

Trujillo, Carla
What Night Brings.   Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2003.  What Marci Cruz prays to God, the Virgin Mary, and Baby Jesus to bring her each night is a change of gender—because she likes girls and the only way to marry one is to be a boy.  F TrujiLLo 

Turner, Paige
Tsing Lee: Mother of All She-Boys: A Novel. Plymouth, MA: Diogenes Press, 1999.  Sex, murder, politics, religion, and a lovely woman who happens to have been born a boy.  F Turner P 

Vidal, Gore
Myra Breckinridge.  Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1968; New York: Penguin Books, 1997. The classic novel about transsexual Myra Breckinridge’s quest for fame and fortune.  F Vidal Go   

Waldman, Ayelet
Bye-Bye, Black Sheep.   New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2006. Another in the "mommy track" mystery series. African American transsexual, Heavenly wants to know who killed her street-walker sister, Violetta.  M WALDMAN    

Waters, Sarah
Tipping the Velvet. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. Nancy Astley’s passion for the cross-dressing performer Kitty Butler turns her life upside down.  F Waters S

Weldon, Fay
Mantrapped. New York: Grove Press, c2004. Neighbors Trisha and Peter’s souls switch bodies on the stairs one day, posing major problems, especially for Peter’s wife.  F WeLdon F 

Wilson, Christopher
Cotton.   Orlando: Harcourt, 2005.  Born a white-skinned black boy in the south, Lee goes through more than one unexpected change in life in this harrowing, yet funny novel.  F WiLson C 

Woolf, Virginia
Orlando: A Biography.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, [1973, 1928]. Woolf’s novel-length love letter to Vita Sackville-West features the gender changing Orlando as Vita.  F WooLf Vi    

FICTION / LITERATURE WEB SITES	Top

Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF: www.mamohanraj.com/balist.html

Lambda SciFi Recommended Reading List: www.lambdasf.org/lsf/books/recommend.html

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Science Fiction: www.feministsf.org

James Tiptree, Jr. Science Fiction Awards: www.tiptree.org

Transgender Fiction: www.members.tgforum.com/ElizabethParker

DVDS – DOCUMENTARY	Top

The Aggressives. Directed and produced by Daniel Peddle; co-producer, Jeanny Tsai.  Los Angeles, CA : Seventh Art Releasing, c2005.  Film about a group of  New York gender-bending lesbians, who despite their masculine appearance and behavior don’t want to become men.  DVD 306.7663 AGGR 

The Believers. Campfire Films presents a film by Todd Holland; directed by Todd Holland; produced by Nicole Miller and Beth Burkhart; a production of Mister Jones, LLC.  San Francisco, CA: Frameline, 2006.  Documentary about the world’s first transgender choir.       DVD 780.2 TRAN 

The Brandon Teena Story.  Produced and directed by Susan Muska & Greta Olafsdottir. New York: Zeitgeist Films; marketed and distributed by New Video, 1999, c1998. Documentary about Brandon Teena, a transgendered youth, who was murdered along with two others in 1993 in rural Nebraska.  DVD 305.9066 BRAN

Total Patient Care: The Child with an Intersex Condition.  Cheryl Chase. Seattle: Intersex Society of North America, 2003.  This film discusses the medical, social and ethical aspects of treating intersex patients in childhood. DVD 616.694 TOTA

Enough Man. Bay Area Video Coalition ; produced & directed by Luke Woodward.  San Francisco, CA : Frameline, 2005.  Nine FTMs and their partners frankly discuss sex, sexuality and relationships.  DVD 306.768 ENOU

Gendernauts. Written, produced and directed by Monika Treut.  New York: First Run Features, 2006, c1999.  Treut explores San Francisco’s trans and gender queer communities in this documentary.   DVD 306.768 GEND    

Inside Out. A film by Zohreh Shayesteh.  Brooklyn, NY:  First Run/Icarus Films, 2006.  Three Muslim Iranians discuss their transgender identities. DVD 306.768 INSI    

Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She. Written and directed by Antony Thomas; produced by Antony Thomas, Carleen Ling-an Hsu.  United States: Home Box Office, c2006.  Explores the experiences of those who don’t fit nicely into a binary gender system.  DVD 305.3 MIDD 

Red Without Blue. A film by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sills.  Indiepix : Cinema Libre Studio, 2007.  Identical twins Mark and Alex and their family are filmed over a period of three years as Alex becomes a woman.  DVD 306.768 RED   

Southern Comfort. Produced by Kate Davis; Q-Ball Productions, Inc. [New York]: Docurama: Distributed by New Video, 2003, c2000. Looks at the life and experiences of Robert Eads, a 52-year-old cowboy who was born female.  DVD 306.76 SOUT

Transgeneration. Sundance Channel in association with Logo presents a World of Wonder Production ; produced by Thairin Smothers ; written by Mathilde Bittner, Ashley York ; directed by Jeremy Simmons. New York: Docurama: Distributed by New Video Group, c2006.  Four transgender college students discuss their feelings and lives as they prepare to transition. DVD 305.3097 TRAN    

Transparent. MamSir Productions presents ; a Jules Rosskam film.  San Francisco, CA: Frameline, 2005.  Documentary about FTMs who have given birth, most of whom are now raising their children.     DVD 306.768 TRAN 

DVDS – DRAMA	Top

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Written and directed by Stephan Elliott. Santa Monica, CA: MGM Home Entertainment, 2000, c1994. Two drag-queens and a transsexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort town in the remote Australian desert.  DVD F ADVE 2000

Agnes & his Brothers. Producer, Stefan Arndt; writer and director, Oskar Roehler.  New York: First Run Features, [2006, c2004].  Agnes and her two brothers have very little in common other than their father who is driving them all crazy.  German with English subtitles. GERMAN DVD F AGNE 

Boys Don’t Cry. Directed by Kimberly Peirce. Beverly Hills, CA: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2000, c1999. Fictionalized account of the Brandon Teena story.  DVD F BOYS 2000. Also available with Chinese subtitles: VCD F BOYS

Breakfast on Pluto. Written by Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe; produced by Allan Moloney, Neil Jordan, Stephen Woolley; directed by Neil Jordan.  Culver City, CA: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2006.   Based on the novel of the same title, by Patrick McCabe.  Irish foster kid makes it big as a transvestite performer in London.  DVD F BREA ; Music from the motion picture: CD 781.5 BREA

La Cage aux Folles. Directed by Eduoard Molinaro. Culver City, CA: MGM Home Video, 1979, 2001. At their son’s request, a gay couple pretends to be a straight couple when meeting their prospective in-laws. Soundtrack in French or English; subtitles in English, French or Spanish. FRENCH DVD F CAGE. Also an English version: DVD F BIRD. 

The Crying Game. Directed and written by Neil Jordan. Van Nuys, CA: Live Home Entertainment, 1993; Santa Monica, CA: Artisan Home Entertainment, 1999, c1992. In an attempt to sever his ties with the Irish Republican Army, Fergus goes to London and forms a relationship with the transvestite lover of a British soldier he was forced to kill.  DVD F CRYI 

Dog Day Afternoon. Directed by Sidney Lumet. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, 1998, c1975. Inept bank robbers, needing money to buy one a sex-change operation, turn a simple heist into a media circus.  DVD F DOG

Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. Los Angeles, CA: New Line Home Entertainment, 2001. The tale of a flamboyant transgender German rock-diva seeking love and stardom in her new home in a trailer park in Kansas.  DVD F HEDW 2001 ; Sound track: CD 782.14 TRAS ; Music and lyrics: 782.7 ZT69h 2003.

In Einem Jahr mit 13 Monden / In a Year with 13 Moons. A film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. San Francisco: Fantoma, 2004, c1978. German with English subtitles. A young German man has sex change surgery and finds a new outlook on life.  GERMAN DVD F IN 2004

Myra Breckinridge. Produced by Robert Fryer; directed by Michael Sarne. Beverly Hills, CA: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2003. Based on the book, the story of transsexual Myra Breckinridge’s quest for fame and fortune.  DVD F MYRA 2003 

Orlando. Adventure Pictures; produced by Christopher Sheppard; written and directed by Sally Potter. Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, this is the story of a young nobleman whose life covers centuries and genders. DVD F ORLA 

Peking Opera Blues. Co-produced & directed by Tsui Hark; Cinema City Co., Ltd. South San Francisco, CA: Tai Seng Video Marketing, c1986. Cantonese and Mandarin, with English subtitles. Three women posing as male opera singers attempt to foil a plot in 1920’s China.  CHINESE VIDEO F PEKI   

Tipping the Velvet. Produced by Georgina Lowe. Directed by Geoffrey Sax. Silver Spring, MD: Distributed by Acorn Media, c2004.  Based on the book, the story of Nancy Astley’s passion for the cross-dressing performer Kitty Butler, which turns her life upside down.  DVD F TIPP 2004 

Transamerica. Produced by Rene Bastian, Sebastian Dungan, Linda Moran; written and directed by Duncan Tucker.  Belladonna Productions LLC. New York: Weinstein Company, [2006], c2005. Bree, a pre-op, MTF transsexual must build a relationship with a teenaged son she never knew she had. DVD F TRAN   

20 Centimeters. A film by Ramón Salazar; Sogepaq.  Philadelphia , PA: TLA Releasing, 2006, c2005.  A transsexual woman longs for her final surgery. Spanish with English subtitles.  SPANISH DVD F TWEN   

Bibliography compiled by Nancy Silverrod, San Francisco Public Library, with assistance from Stephen Stratton, California State University Channel Islands Library; K.R. Roberto, University of Georgia Libraries; Jami Taylor, University of North Carolina, Greensboro School of Library and Information Studies; Adam Davis, Delray Beach (FL) Public Library.

Updated by Nancy Silverrod, San Francisco Public Library, 2008.