List of transgender publications

This list of transgender publications includes books, magazines, and academic journals about transgender people, cultural, and thought.

The lexical compound trans+gender was first used in 1965 by psychiatrist John F. Oliven of Columbia University in the second edition of his reference work Sexual Hygiene and Pathology.^[1][2] By the mid-1970s both trans-gender and trans people were in common use as umbrella terms.^[3] By 1984, the concept of a "transgender community" had developed.^[4] By 1992, the International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy defined transgender as an expansive umbrella term including "transsexuals, transgenderists, cross dressers" and anyone transitioning.^[5]

Books

Some publishers of transgender-related books include Trans-Genre Press,^[6] Topside Press^[7] and Transgress Press.^[8]

Non-fiction

Work	Year	Author	Notes	References
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us	1994	Bornstein, KateKate Bornstein	ISBN 0-679-75701-5
The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story	2009	Transgender A. Revathi	ISBN 978-81-8475-271-7	First book on Hijra by a Hijra[9]
Mom, I Need to be a Girl	1998	Just Evelyn	Memoir from the point of view of the mother. ISBN 0-9663272-0-9
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law	2011	Spade, DeanDean Spade	Nominated for a 2011 Lambda Literary Award. ISBN 0-89608-796-4	[10]
Redefining Realness	2014	Mock, JanetJanet Mock	Memoir	[11][12][13]
Third Sex and Human Rights	1999	Talwar, RajeshRajesh Talwar	ISBN 81-212-0642-1
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue	1999	Feinberg, LeslieLeslie Feinberg	ISBN 0-8070-7951-0
Transgender History	2008	Stryker, SusanSusan Stryker		[14][15][16][17][18][19]
Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come	1992	Feinberg, LeslieLeslie Feinberg	ISBN 0-89567-105-0
Transgender Rights	2006	Currah, Paisley Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Minter (editors)	ISBN 0-8166-4311-3
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman	1996	Feinberg, LeslieLeslie Feinberg	ISBN 0-8070-7941-3
When Kayla Was Kyle	2013	Amy, FabrikantFabrikant Amy	978-1-61286-154-8	[20]

Fiction and poetry

Work	Year	Author	Category	Notes	References
10,000 Dresses	2008	Ewert, MarcusMarcus Ewert	Young adult/Children's	Picture book about a young transgender girl named Bailey whose family does not agree with her desire to wear dresses.
An Anglo-American Alliance	1906	Casparian, GregoryGregory Casparian	Science fiction novel
Adventures of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy The Adventures of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy	2012	Bergman, S. Bear S. Bear Bergman and Suzy Malik	Young adult/Children's	Title character Tulip receives a birthday wish from a child known as David who wishes to live as Daniela, and learns how to help and respect a gender-independent young person. 2013 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. (ISBN 978-0-9879763-0-7)	[21][22]
Almost Perfect	2009	Katcher, Brian Brian Katcher	Young adult/Children's	Story of an adolescent transgender girl named Sage Hendrix who moves to a new high school in Missouri. 2011 Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association.	[23]
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children	2012	Cronn-Mills, KirstinKirstin Cronn-Mills	Young adult/Children's	Despite bullying from his classmates and a lack of acknowledgement from his family, music geek Gabe (born Elizabeth) is transitioning, and just wants to make it through his nearing graduation. Stonewall Book Award winner and a Lambda Literary Award finalist.	[24]
Being Emily	2012	Gold, RachelRachel Gold	Young adult/Children's	Emily (born Christopher) begins to come out as transgender during her junior year of high school.	[25]
Breakfast on Pluto	1998	McCabe, Patrick Patrick McCabe	Fiction	Patrick "Pussy" Braden is an Irish trans woman who escapes from the fictional Irish town of Tyreelin and a drunk foster mother, to find herself and the biological mother who gave her away. Booker prize shortlist.	[26][27]
Butterfly and the Flame, The The Butterfly and the Flame	2005	De Young, Dana Dana De Young	Fiction		[28]
Collection The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard	2012	Léger, Tom Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod (editors)	Fiction	ISBN 0-9832422-0-8	[23][29]
Freakboy	2013	Kristin Elizabeth Clark	Young adult/Children's	ISBN 0-374-32472-7	[30]
Holding Still for as Long as Possible	2009	Whittall, ZoeZoe Whittall	Fiction	Josh is a trans man with a girlfriend, Amy.	[31]
I Am J	2011	Beam, Cris Cris Beam	Fiction	ISBN 0-316-05361-9	[32]
I Am Jazz	2014	Jazz Jennings & Jessica Herthel	Young adult/Children's	ISBN 0-8037-4107-3
Just Girls	2014	Gold, RachelRachel Gold	Young adult/Children's	ISBN 1-59493-419-3	[33]
Kafka on the Shore	2002	Murakami, HarukiHaruki Murakami	General	Features n gay, transgender man named Oshima who is friends with the main character.	[34]
Luna	2004	Peters, Julie AnneJulie Anne Peters	Young adult/Children's	Story of Luna O'Neill (born Liam), a young male-to-female transsexual. Lambda Literary Award finalist in the Children's/Young Adult category.	[35][36][37][38]
Maxine Wore Black	2014	Olsen, Nora Nora Olsen	Fiction		[39]
My Princess Boy	2009	Kilodavis, Cheryl Cheryl Kilodavis and Suzanne DeSimone	Young adult/Children's	Picture book about the author's son Dyson, whose self-expression does not conform to stereotypical gender role as Dyson prefers clothing meant for girls.
Myra Breckinridge	1968	Vidal, GoreGore Vidal	Fiction	Myra is a beautiful young woman with a secret agenda — and a secret past as a man named Myron.	[40]
Nevada	2013	Bonnie, Imogen Imogen Binnie	Fiction	ISBN 0-9832422-9-1
Orlando: A Biography	1928	Woolf, VirginiaVirginia Woolf	Fiction	Story of an individual named Orlando, born as a biological male in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. Orlando lives for more than 300 years and, at around 30 years of age, mysteriously changes biological sex to female.
Parrotfish	2011	Wittlinger, Ellen Ellen Wittlinger	Young adult/Children's	Coming out story of a transgender teenage boy named Grady; the title refers to the fact that parrotfish can change their gender.	[41]
Roving Pack	2012	Lowrey, Sassafrass Sassafrass Lowrey	Young adult/Children's	Story of a group of independent youths in the Portland, Oregon area trying to find their way.	[42]
Run, Clarissa, Run	2012	Eliason, Rachel Rachel Eliason	Fiction		[43]
Safe Girl to Love, A A Safe Girl to Love	2014	Plett, CaseyCasey Plett	Fiction		[44]
Stone Butch Blues	1993	Feinberg, LeslieLeslie Feinberg	Fiction	Butch Jess Goldberg grows up in the pre-Stonewall era. Won the Lambda Literary Award and the 1994 American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Award	[45][46][47][48]
Trans-Sister Radio	2000	Bohjalian, ChrisChris Bohjalian	Fiction		[49]
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics	2013	Tolbert, T.C. T.C. Tolbert & Trace Peterson (editors)	Poetry	ISBN 1-937658-10-4

Extended list

• Bill's New Frock (1989) by Anne Fine is a children's book for younger readers. Bill wakes up one morning to find he is a girl. Forced off to school in a frilly pink dress, Bill finds that he does not like being treated as a girl.
• The Butterfly and the Flame (, 2011 ) by Dana De Young is dystopian novel set in the year 2404 A.D. in a time where technology and society have relapsed and a corrupt and repressive theocracy known as the Dominion of Divinity rules most of what was once the United States. The main protagonist is a male to female transgender teenager by the name of Emily La Rouche who has been living in stealth since the age of six, but is unwittingly forced into an arranged marriage to the son of her land lord when she turns sixteen years old. Much of the story is a backdrop for the American culture wars and incorporates issues such as separation of church and state, GLBT rights, unreasonable search and seizure, invasion of privacy, as well as enhanced interrogation techniques.
• Bye-Bye, Black Sheep: A Mommy-track Mystery (ISBN 978-0-425-21018-5, Ayelet Waldman, 2006) is a mystery, part of a series featuring Juliet Appelbaum, a stay-at-home mom and former public defender. In this installment, Appelbaum is approached by Heavenly, a transsexual woman who asks her to investigate the murder of her sister, Violetta, a prostitute and drug addict.
• Cereus Blooms at Night: A Novel (ISBN 978-0-380-73199-2, Shani Mootoo, 1999) is a multi-narrative novel set in a fictional island in the Caribbean. An ambiguously gendered, but often presumed male, nurse named Tyler tells the troubled family history of Mala Ramchandin, an elderly woman under her care at a nursing home. Ze also relates the story of the transgender man named Otoh, who becomes Tyler's boyfriend. Shani Mootoo's novel explores identity, gender and community.
• Cherry Single (ISBN 0-9600650-5-9, Valory Gravois, 1997) is a novel following 20-something David Nunley in 1970s San Francisco as he walks down several paths, searching for the reason for his avid crossdressing. He begins to share his secret with girlfriends, and gains the confidence to venture out to meet other crossdressers. On another track, he moves toward being a news photographer in an era of anti-war protests, finally meeting the woman who can offer him a lasting relationship.
• Choir Boy (ISBN 978-1-932360-81-3, Charlie Anders, 2005) is a coming of age story of twelve-year-old Berry, a boy who seeks out antiandrogens in order to suppress his testosterone and prevent voice change from affecting his ability to sing in the choir. The novel won the Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender/GenderQueer category.^[38]
• Cock and Bull 1992 novel by Will Self in which a man and a woman develop sexual organs of the opposite sex.
• The Danish Girl (2000) by American author David Ebershoff is a fictionalized account of the life of Lili Elbe, the first person to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
• Game Night: A Role-Play Novel (ISBN 978-1-4661-0659-8, Leela Ginelle, 2011) is a postmodern novel that follows the coming out process of Taylor, a closeted transwoman, and her girlfriend Jenny, a furry who fantasizes about being a cat. The novel has three parts: Game Night, which centers on Taylor and Jenny's relationship, Denny: A Public Life, which looks at a new character Denny (who may be a combination of Taylor and Jenny), and Leela's Story: 5 Essays, a section composed of memoir-esque essays looking back on the life of Taylor, pre-transition. Game Night is available as an e-book.
• Inside Out: A Mystery (ISBN 978-0-312-28582-1, Elise Title, 2003) is a mystery, part of a series featuring Natalie Price, a corrections officer operating in Boston. In this installment, Price investigates the assault of a post-operative transsexual ex-convict, Dr. Lynn Ingram.
• Man Enough (Beth Burnett, 2012) is a romantic comedy about a single girl's search for love. While juggling a heartbroken roommate, a pot-smoking mom, and a lesbian best friend who might be falling in love with her, Davey Carter meets the man of her dreams. However, her new man may have some secrets of his own.
• Refuse by Elliott DeLine is the story of a 22-year-old female-to-male-transsexual named Dean and his would-be love affair with his college roommate, another trans man with a girlfriend and a successful indie rock band. It is Dean's fictional memoir with many references to classic literature and the English alternative rock band The Smiths.
• Sacred Country by Rose Tremain published in 1992 is a prizewinning novel about Mary Ward, who at the age of six decides she should have been born a boy. The novel concerns her struggle in a small town in England.
• The Waves That Lift Us (ISBN 978-1-4700-3249-4, Ryan Martin, 2011) is a Young Adult Novella, following the character Riley during his stay at a beach camp for boys. He listens to a bonfire story about a creature who lives on the same beach where the camp is located. Riley spends the rest of beach camp discovering more clues about the hidden monster. While trying to find the truth behind the mysterious creature, he also hears rumors that one of his new friends is transgender.
• Who I Am and What I Want by Emmy Morgan (2011) is a novel about a post-operative transwoman trying to lead a "normal" life in Western Massachusetts. Desiré Andersen has gotten her life back together, after a tumultuous childhood and a disastrous relationship with a pimp ex-boyfriend.

Magazines and periodicals

Title	Editor(s)	Publisher	First published	Ceased publication	Frequency	ISSN	Notes
Chrysalis: The journal of transgressive gender identities		American Educational Gender Information Service	1995			ISSN 1086-4873
FTM Magazine	Jason Robert Ballard		2014		Quarterly	ISSN 2377-7737	"The GQ for Trans Men"
Frock Magazine	Katie Glover, Sally Bend	The Gender Society	2009		Bi-monthly		Magazine containing "transgender-related articles, features and stories which will be of interest to transsexuals, crossdressers, drag queens and transvestites and intersexed people"[50]
Original Plumbing	Amos Mac, Rocco Kayiatos[51]		2009[51]		Quarterly	ISSN 2153-6341	"Dedicated to the culture and lifestyle of transgender men"[51]
TG Life	Brianna Austin	Inicia Incorporated	2004[52]				"An online magazine, social network and resource center for, by, and about the transgender community."[52]
Brianna Austin	Brianna Austin	Inicia Incorporated	2000[53]				"An online resource for articles, essays, poetry and true stories by Brianna Nicole Austin."[53]
Transgender Tapestry	Dallas Denny[54]	International Foundation for Gender Education	1985	2006	Quarterly	ISSN 0884-9749	Formerly known as Tapestry
Transsexual News Telegraph	Gail Sondegaard		1991	2002	Quarterly	ISSN 1091-1138
Femme Mirror, The		Tri-Ess			Quarterly	ISSN 1083-1177
Sweetheart's Connection, The		Tri-Ess	1999		Quarterly
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly	Paisley Currah, Susan Stryker	Duke University Press	2014		Quarterly	ISSN 2328-9252, ISSN 2328-9260
Transformation Magazine	Hanna Rodgers	Transformation Publishing Inc.	1969		Quarterly	ISSN 3461-6263 (Warning: Check ISSN)	Magazine of interest to transgender, transsexual, crossdresser, intersex, gender fluid, gender non-conformist readers

See also

• List of transgender-related topics
• List of transgender-rights organizations
• List of transgender and transsexual fictional characters
• List of transgender people
• Literature about intersex
• Zenith Foundation Publications

References and further reading

• Lannie Rose, How to Change Your Sex: A Lighthearted Look at the Hardest Thing You'll Ever Do, second edition, Lulu.com, 2006.
• Lannie Rose, Lannie! My Journey from Man to Woman, SterlingHouse Publisher, Inc., 2007.
• Peggy J. Rudd, Crossdressing with Dignity: The Case for Transcending Gender Lines, PM Publishers, Inc., 1999. ISBN 0-9626762-6-8.
• Charles Anders, The Lazy Crossdresser, Greenery Press, 2002. ISBN 1-890159-37-9.
• Lacey Leigh, Out & About: The Emancipated Crossdresser, Double Star Press, 2002. ISBN 0-9716680-0-0.
• Caroline Cossey, My Story, Faber and Faber, reprint edition 1992. ISBN 0-571-12909-9.
• Mildred L. Brown and Chloe Ann Rounsley. True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism—For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals, Jossey-Bass. The hardcover edition (1996) is ISBN 0-7879-0271-3, and the paperback edition (2003)is ISBN 0-7879-6702-5.

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External links

• Frock, a bimonthly magazine
• The Gender Society, an online community of transgender people
• TG LIFE, online magazine and community
• GCreporter
• TransOhio Publications
• Transgender reading list on T-Vox
• FTM-specific reading list on T-Vox