* Designates ones we recommend and or have read, this does not imply endorsement and/or agreement with the content.
50 years of Sex Changing: A Social History of Transformation in the late 20th Century
by Stephen Whittle
A Provider’s Handbook on Culturally Competent Care
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Population. Second Edition. Oakland, CA: Kaiser Permanente National Diversity Council and Kaiser Permanente National Diversity, 2004. Download available from http://www.glma.org/
Accounting for Transsexualism and Transhomosexuality:
by Tully, B. London. Whiting and Birch. 1992 The gender identities of over 200 men and women who have petitioned for surgical sex reassignment of their sexual identity.
* As Nature Made Him : The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl
by John Colapinto Once you begin reading As Nature Made Him, a mesmerizing story of a medical tragedy and its traumatic results, you absolutely won't want to put it down. Following a botched circumcision, a family is convinced to raise their infant son, Bruce, as a girl. They rename the child Brenda and spend the next 14 years trying to transform David into a her. Brenda's childhood reads as one filled with anxiety and loneliness, and her fear and confusion are present on nearly every page concerning her early childhood. Much of her pain is caused by Dr. Money, who is presented as a villainous medical man attempting to coerce an unwilling child to submit to numerous unpleasant treatments.
Reading over interviews and reports of decisions made by this doctor, it's difficult to contain anger at the widespread results of his insistence that natural-born gender can be altered with little more than willpower and hormone treatments. The attempts of his parents, twin brother, and extended family to assist Brenda to be happily female are touching--the sense is overwhelmingly of a family wanting to do "right" while being terribly mislead as to what "right" is for her. As Brenda makes the decision to live life as a male (at age 14), she takes the name David and begins the process of reversing the effects of estrogen treatments. David's ultimately successful life--a solid marriage, honest and close family relationships, and his bravery in making his childhood public--bring an uplifting end to his story. Equally fascinating is the latest segment of the longtime nature/nurture controversy, and the interviews of various psychological researchers and practitioners form a larger framework around David's struggle to live as the gender he was meant to be. --Jill Lightner
* A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive
* The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
* A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
Help Yourself: Finding Hope, Courage, and Happiness
by Dave Pelzer, One reader said about A Child Called It, "it was with the heaviest of hearts that I turned the last page of Dave Pelzer's account of his experiences as a child from the ages of 4-12. The horrific abuse that he suffered at the hands of his Mother is shocking and painful to read. I finished it virtually at one sitting since it was almost impossible to put down, although at times, were it not so utterly compelling, it would have been equally difficult to pick up again. That David survived his terrible ordeal at all is almost beyond belief. That he survived and managed to triumph is nothing short of a miracle.
A previous reviewer described this book as "not well written". I think this misses the point. Dave Pelzer is not a writer. He is simply someone who has been brave enough to share with the world the terrible things that happened to him and he has to be commended for it. It's true to say that the book is not high on decorative language and snappy narrative. Nevertheless, I would challenge any reasonable person to put it down unaffected, unchanged and not weeping tears of shame that in our so-called civilised society, something like this could happen to a child. It's unbearably sad and completely unforgettable. A MUST READ!"
This is the first of three books that describe Dave's trek back into the world where abuse was not an everyday occurrence. Once done with the first book you are left emotionally drained and only the knowledge that Dave indeed survived keeps you going onto the next. Thank the Creator that there was indeed a next book and that Dave indeed is a survivor.
Becoming a Visible Man
by Jamison Green, Nashville, ISBN: 082651457X Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. Transgender activist Green discusses the medical, social and legal aspects of gender change within the context of his own experiences.
Written by a leading activist in the transgender movement, Becoming a Visible Man is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. 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.
For more than a decade, Green has provided educational programs on gender-variance issues for corporations, law-enforcement agencies, social-science conferences and classes, continuing legal education, religious education, and medical venues. His comprehensive knowledge of the processes and problems encountered by transgendered and transsexual people—as well as his legal advocacy work to help ensure that gender-variant people have access to the same rights and opportunities as others—enable him to explain the issues as no transsexual author has previously done.
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. Relating the FTM psyche and experience to the social and political forces at work in American society, Becoming a Visible Man also speaks consciously of universal principles that concern us all, particularly the need to live one’s life honestly, openly, and passionately.
Beyond Diversity Day: A Q & A on Gay and Lesbian Issues in Schools (Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities)
by Arthur Lipkin, Roman & Littlefield Publishers (December 1, 2003, ISBN: 074252034X
Beyond Diversity Day is a handbook for teachers, counselors, administrators, policy makers, parents, and students who want to understand and affirm sexuality differences; promote and protect the well-being of all students; and reduce bigotry, self-hatred, and violence. In question-and-answer format, Arthur Lipkin offers advice to nurture positive relationships among glbt youth, their families, and the schools; welcome glbt families in the school community; support glbt educators; and incorporate sound and appropriate glbt-related curricula across disciplines. Written by a veteran high school and university teacher and staff developer, Beyond Diversity Day weaves sound scholarship with vivid real-world examples from classrooms and the media. It offers a compelling blueprint for working with diverse students and for improving schools.
Bisexuality and Transgenderism: Intersexions of the Others
by 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. Community is a funny thing. A reader might look at that phrase, "LGBT community" and think that it were a unified entity. Others might consider the history of the expression, about how it has tried to pull together identities that were previously related but set apart. Thus Gay was joined by Lesbian, and eventually Bisexual and Transgendered were brought in.
See: http://www.rainbownetwork.com/Features/detail.asp?iData=21298&iCat=32&iChannel=25&nChannel=Features
Body Alchemy
by Loren Cameron, Transsexual Portraits. Pittsburgh, PA: Cleis Press, 1996. Stunning photographs of male-to-female transsexuals accompanied by short personal comments.
Both Sides Now: One Man's Journey Through Womanhood
by Dhillon Khosla Tarcher (March 16, 2006) ISBN: 1585424722
Boys and Girls: The Development of Gender Roles
by Carole R. Beal, This analysis of gender follows the evolution of development from child to adolescent. Primarily aimed at students in the field of developmental psychology, the book focuses sequentially on boys' and girls' early development, the difference between group identity and individual identity, and the impact of social class and ethnicity on gender development. 1994; $38.84; 359 pp; ISBN 0-07-004533-X; McGraw-Hill, Inc., P.O. Box 548, Blacklick, OH 43004; 800/262-4729; FAX: 614/759-3644; E-mail: customerservice@mcgraw-hill.com; Web-site: http://www.books.mcgraw-hill.com
Brain Gender
by Melissa Hines; New York, Oxford University Press, 2004, 307 pages, $38.25
Brain Gender is a fascinating book, clearly written and well organized. The author, Melissa Hines, professor of psychology and
current director of the Neuroendocrinology Research Unit at London's City University, traces her interest in sex differences and their
origins to her freshman year in college, when she and other women, the first to be admitted to Princeton, were assigned to "two-man
rooms" and were routinely addressed as "Mr." by unthinking preceptors. Hines trained at UCLA and the University of Wisconsin in
personality theory, developmental psychology, and neuroendocrinology. Brain Gender reflects not only the author's
mastery of developmental biology—particularly in relation to hormonal influences on brain development and plasticity,
developmental anatomy, and sex-related behaviors in multiple species—but also her understanding of the social and cultural implications of sex and gender differences for the human species.
Hines reviews carefully and lucidly the research to date on sex differences in humans, starting with genital ambiguity and its
relationship to genetic and hormonal abnormalities. She establishes that gonadal hormones play a major role in tissue organization and the structural development of genitalia in human sexual differentiation; she then examines the influence of gonadal hormones
on neural and behavioral development in other mammals. Hines supplies an admirable summary of intriguing animal research
illustrating both the "organizing" and the "activating" nature of hormones. For example, female rats located "downstream" in terms of
uterine blood flow from male littermates show as adults more male-typical behaviors, such as mounting, than females
located "upstream." for more see http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/56/10/1325
Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women
Anne Moir and David Jessel Brain Sex, with its intriguing title, explores the exact differences- biological and psychological- that divide the male and female sexes. It explores the way humans are expected to live by the stereotypes prescibed for them at birth by society.
Why are men and women so different? Why do we think so differently from one another and seem to live in completely different worlds most of the time? The answer lies in biology- the way males and females are constructed. The book then goes on to talk about male/ female relationships.
This is a book that will have you thinking about its contents long after you've put it down; I had to read it several times in order to comprehend the full scope of this book. Brain Sex is a book that every person- man and women- should have on their nightstand. Its a great reference, and; although a bit out of date, is a great resource to understanding the depth and scope of male/ female relationships. Kasthu
* By the grace of God
by Lee Frances Heller and Friends ISBN 0-9707947-0-3 Also available on line at http://207.152.67.6/gog/
Lee Frances Heller, who died May 19, 2000 at age 81, devoted the last fifteen years of her life to sharing God's love with persons who, like herself, had been scorned and rejected by the established religious leadership. On an ancient typewriter in her Jackson, Mississippi home, she began her newsletter, The Grace and Lace Letter, with the question, "Is God Against Us?" Her passion, sincerity, and wit left the reader certain that God is indeed not against persons like Lee Frances Heller -- persons who happen to be transgendered.
Lee's essays were praised and appreciated, and other transgendered Christian writers joined her in contributing their viewpoints to the Grace and Lace Letters. Over the years Lee heard from dozens of transsexual persons and crossdressers who had nearly lost their faith, but found new hope through her publications. By the time of her death, Lee's works had a readership of hundreds of Christian transgendered persons as well as their family, friends and clergy.
By The Grace of God is a compilation of essays from Lee Frances Heller, Terri Lynn Main, Dr. Rebecca Anne Allison, and other transgendered Christian writers. These essays were published in the Grace and Lace Letter, and its later successor, the Christian Love Letter. It is our prayer that Lee's life and witness will live on through this book, a continuing testimony to our God who loves us even when others may reject us. --Becky Allison
Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lore by Randy P. Conner, David Hatfield Sparks, Mariya Sparks, Randy P. Connor, editors. An essential reference work for all GLBTQ collections. London; Herndon, VA: Cassell, 1997.
Changes: Understanding the Gender Role Transition
Dianna Cicotello
Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender
by Bernice L. Hausman
Through reconstruction of current thought on transsexualism as a disorder of gender identity, Hausman demonstrates how current medical advances make the development of new theories possible. Chapters include "Plastic Ideologies and Plastic Transformations," "Managing Intersexuality and Producing Gender," "Body, Technology, and Gender in Transsexual Autobiographies," and "Semiotics of Sex, Gender, and the Body."
1995; $17.95; 245 pp; ISBN 0-8223-1692-7; Duke University Press, P. O. Box 90660, Durham, NC 27708-0660; 919/687-3612; FAX: 919/688-4574; E-mail: mbrodsky@acpub.duke.edu ; Web-site: http://www.duke.edu/web/dupress
Changing Channels: A Christian Response to the Transvestite and Transsexual
by Revd. David Horton
* Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography
by Christine Jorgensen This autobiography details the life of Christine Jorgensen whose dignity and courage set a proud example for the thousands of transsexuals who have followed her path. 1967; 332 pp; out of print; available in libraries.
Clinical Management of Gender Identity Disorder in Children and Adults.
by Blanchard and Steiner. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press. 1990 From Book News, Inc.Ten contributions examine the various syndromes of gender identity disturbance in males and females. Case studies are provided as well as descriptions of different treatment approaches and their effectiveness. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Constructing Gendered Bodies
by Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Linda McKie, editors. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2001. Part III: The Moral and Medical Regulation of Sex, Sexualities and Gender includes chapters on transsexuality and intersexuality. Interest in sociological study of the body, theoretically and empirically, has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by bringing together research which examines the social and cultural processes involved in the construction of gendered bodies and sexual practices. Contributors explore these issues in a variety of settings ranging from the workplace and leisure industry to social arenas of moral and medical regulation.
* Conundrum
by Jan Morris Conundrum is a classic of the small but powerful field of transgender writing. What places this book at the top of the list are the fame of the author, the stellar prose, the non-sensational style of the telling, the humor, and the many layers and levels of love that carry Morris' passage from man to woman through to completion. Peggy Vincent
* Confessions of a Gender Defender: : A Psychologist's Reflections on Life Among the Transgendered
by Randi Ettner Well written book that brings fourth the human compassion, suffering and the enduring spirit. If your looking for a way to educate yourself or othrs on gender diversity here is the place to start.
Counseling in Genderland A Guide for You and Your Transgendered Client
Neila Miller, MS, LCSW, LMHC ISBN: 0962626260
Covering: the Hidden Assulton our Civil Rights
by Kenji Yoshino Random House $24.95; 304 pages
Cross-Purposes: On Being Christian and Crossgendered
Vanesa S.
Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian
by Vanessa Sheridan, Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2001 Review by Jennifer M. Phillips
It is refreshing to encounter a book that does not regard transgender as a plight or diagnosis, but rather as a healthy variant of human being, and a gift and blessing to the assortment of people whose sexuality and gender experience it describes. Sheridan is a Christian, and is unashamed in saying, "The Christian Church is my spiritual heritage and I love it with all my heart."(xiii) From this vantage point she claims Jesus the outsider and rebel as friend and example, and the God who led the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt as the one who calls transgendered people to throw off oppression and cross over into the new "Kin-dom" of divine life. "God created us differently gendered people," she writes, "and because God did so, it means that we are good. Even more, it means that our gender variant lives are holy and our souls are beloved by God." See more at: http://www.thewitness.org/agw/phillipsbkrev071702.html
* Crossing - A Memoir
Deirdre N. McCloskey I read this book out of curiosity right after I read J. Michael Bailey's landmark scholarly study, The Man Who Would be Queen. I find McCloskey's memoir to be complementary and reinforcing---wonderfully well written, insightful, humourous, and honest. McCloskey is a consummate scholar, a dispassionate writer, and an astute observer of human behavior. I recommend this book to one and all readers. Kudos! Jennifer
* Current concepts in TG identity
Dallas Denny, editor. New York: Garland Pub., 1998. Contributors explore historical, social, medical, personal, and theoretical aspects of transgenderism.
Dawn: A Charleston Legend
by Dawn Langley Simmons, 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.
Dear Sir or Madam
by Mark Nicholas Rees, The Autobiography of a Female-to-Male Transsexual. London; New York: Cassell, 1996.
Debating Gender, Debating Sexuality
by Nikki R. Keddie, Editor, This book concentrates on two central theoreticians, Michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud, to examine the effect of their theories on contemporary and past perceptions of sexuality. Essays from the author's book, Contention, range from discussions and responses on procreation and female oppression to the male search for gender identity. (This publication also debates the key issues relating to sexuality in a format that is ideal for those involved in forensics.)
1996;$18.95; 331 pp; ISBN 0-8147-4655-1; New York University Press, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012; 800/996-6987; FAX: 212/995-3833
* Dr Selma Help
by Selma Massey ISBN: 1410757188
Early Modern Hermaphrodites
by Ruth Gilbert, Sex and Other Stories. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Gilbert examines the ways in which intersexed individuals were viewed medically, erotically, legally, and literarily in Britain from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
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Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People.
Joan Roughgarden. viii + 474 pp. University of California Press, 2004. $27.50.
Evolution's Rainbow is Joan Roughgarden's Apologia, an extraordinary book that entwines a radical attack on the Darwinian concept of sexual selection with a personal narrative written from her perspective as a transgendered woman (until six years ago, she was Jonathan Roughgarden). The book is thought–provoking, even at times profound, although some of its arguments are infuriatingly extraneous or superficial. Some critics will dismiss it as a book with an agenda—polemic tainted by the author's unwillingness to detach her scientific analyses from her personal experience. To take that narrow view, however, does grave injustice to Roughgarden's ambitious undertaking.
Feelings
Stephanie Castle
Female to Male Transsexuals in Society
by Holly Devor, FTM: , Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. Dr. Devor presents a sympathetic and easily understandable portrait of FTMs as they learn about themselves and their identity, through interviews she conducted.
* Feminizing Hormonal Therapy for the Transgendered
by Sheila Kirk, M.D. This book, written for the male-to-female transgendered person, presents information based on medical research and reports to the medical community. Dr. Kirk emphasizes that "good health is paramount . . . anything that risks good health is foolhardy and irrational." Topics include: endocrinology; anatomy and biochemistry; function of the sexual hormones; complications of hormonal use; medical evaluations--the initial examination and periodic monitoring; and frequently asked questions. She also writes about masculine hormonal therapy as well as medical, legal, and workplace issues.
1996; $14.95 + $2.00 shipping and handling; 84 pp; ISBN 1-887796-01-0; Together Lifeworks, P.O. Box 38114, Blawnox, PA 15238-9998; 412/781-1092; FAX: 415/781-1096; E-mail: sheilakirk@aol.com .
Finding the Real Me
Tracie O’Keefe and Katrina Fox, editors. True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity. . San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2003. Transgendered individuals talk about their personal experiences in this anthology.
For Your Own Good
by Alice Miller review from Amazon By A. E. Osborne. Icannot recommend this book highly enough.
It is a masterpiece, by Alice Miller, that looks at the way our society breaks the wills and spirits of our children and the dire consequences for all of our nations.
Miller looks in depth at the childhoods of three individuals, including Adolf Hitler, and relates how cruelties in their upbringing helped shaped the people they became; with dreadful consequences for the children involved and millions of others.
Miller also brings to the book her many years experience in the field of psychology and we learn of the many clients she has helped to face the demons of their childhood.
This is a book that has the potential to make one dig deep into one's past and question was it really for "Your Own Good".
The pedagogy that takes away our will and allows the horrors of the holocaust is examined in the childhood of Hitler and his peers.
If a child is conditioned to blindly follow the will of his or her parents, without question; then the great and unquestioning following of a pedagogue figure, such as Hitler, becomes more understandable.
This book is one that is in my top ten books, if only for the potential it gives one to unlock the many closed doors of childhood.
Publisher: Random House, Inc. (December 12, 1987) ISBN-10: 0860688992
From Female to Male
by Louis Sullivan, The Life of Jack B. Garland. Boston: Alyson Publications, Inc., 1990. Garland, born a female, was a wellknown cross-dresser and self-identified male who lived in San Francisco from the late 1880s until his death in the 1930s.
From Man to Woman
by Richard F Docter, The Transgender Journey of Virginia Price. Northridge, CA: Docter Press, 2004. Prince lived as a man for much of his life, publishing a magazine for transvestites and starting support groups, while opposing transgender surgery.
From Masculine to Feminine and All Points In Between
by Jennifer Anne Stevens. This book is addresses both TV and TS issues quite well. It is copyright 1990 and is published by Different Path Press, Box 251, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA 02238, ISBN: 0-9626262-0-1
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond, Morty Diamond, editor. San Francisco: Manic D Press, 2004. Diamond gathers the stories of a group of female-to-male transsexuals and self-defined gender-queers in this moving anthology.
FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society
by Holly Devor ISBN: 0253212596 Indiana University Press (March 1, 1999) "Writing with an intelligent and accessible style, Dr. Devor balances exposition, analysis, and excerpts from her subjects' interviews to present a coherent picture of what social life is like for FTMs as they find their identity and learn about themselves." - Jamison "James" Green
Gay / Lesbian / Bisexual / Transgendered Public Policy Issues
Wallace K. Swan, DPA (Ed.)
Gay Persecution Rising Around the World
by Kate Kelland See quote from Archbishop Tutu below
Gene Worship: Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain, and Gender
by Gisela T. Kaplan ISBN:1590510348 2003, Other Press (NY) As a counterbalance to the increasingly popular genetic explanations for human behavior put forward by evolutionary psychologists, the authors draw from several fields of research to examine how much of what is claimed about gender differences and sexual orientation is verifiable, what other explanations could be given, and why the public should remain skeptical about the occlusive dominance of genes. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Gender Advertisements
by Erving Goffman Harper & Row, 1979 This unique book does for nonverbal behavior what Lakoff does for language. Goffman, the late sociologist, gathered countless print advertisements to illustrate that women were depicted in ways that constituted "the ritualization of subordination." With his acute eye for the patterns of physical detail and placement, Goffman showed that aspects of women's behavior we take for granted (such as head tilts, smiling and knee-bends) make us likable -- and childlike.
(Deborah Tannen is University Professor and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University.)
Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits of Duality
by by Holly Devor Based on a compilation of interviews of 15 women who reject traditional feminity yet maintain their female identity, the book examines the social construction of gender. Devor takes the perspective that gender is a social distinction which is different but not entirely removed from biological sexuality. The book examines the impact of contemporary gender distinctions on women. 1989; $14.95; 178 pp; ISBN 0-253-31637-5; Indiana University Press, 601 N. Morton Street, Bloomington, IN 47404-3797; 800/842-6796; FAX: 800/842-6796; E-mail: iup@indiana.edu
Gender Blending
by Bullough, Bullough, & Elias Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997. A collection of academic
papers on cross-dressing and transgenderism, with some interest for the general reader.
Gender Dysphoria: Development, Research, Management
Betty W. Steiner (Ed.) ISBN: 0306416948 1984
Gender: In Cross-Cultural Perspective, 2nd Edition
by Caroline B. Brettell & Carolyn Sargent, Editors, This collection of essays examines cultural constructions of gender through human evolution as well as the impact of gender on historical change. The anthology approaches gender through a cross-cultural and comparative analysis. 1996; $28.00; 504 pp.; ISBN 0-13-533613-9; Prentice-Hall, Inc., A Simon & Schuster Company, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632. Orders copies from: Order Processing Center, P.O. Box 11071, Des Moines, IA 50336; 800/947-7700; FAX 800/835-5327
* Gender Identity A SIECUS Annotated Bibliography of Organizations and Available Materials
Gender identity plays a large part in the development of an individual's sexuality. In fact, A Descriptive Dictionary and Atlas of Sexology (R. T. Francoeur, editor, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1991, 241.) defines gender identity as "the internalized sense of being male, female, or having an ambivalent sexual status; the self-awareness of knowing to which sex one belongs."
The purpose of this bibliography is to address the complicated and multi-faceted issues related to the subject of gender identity. The literature is vast and diverse. As a result, this bibliography focuses not only on such specific subjects as transgenderism and transvestism but also on anthologies and books that debate and analyze the social construction of gender. For consistency, the bibliography uses the word cross-dresse in all references to this subject (rather than the variations cross dresser or crossdresser).
SIECUS does not sell or distribute any of these publications. They are, however, available for use in our Mary S. Calderone Library. For those interested in purchasing certain books, each annotation contains contact and price information. Copies of this bibliography are available for purchase from the SIECUS Publications Department. Costs are: 1-4 copies, $3.00 each; 5-49 copies, $2.75 each; 50-100 copies, $2.50 each; 100 or more copies, $2.25 each. SIECUS is located at 130 West 42nd Street, Suite 350, New York, NY 10036-7802; 212/819-9770; FAX 212/819-9776; E-mail: SIECUS@siecus.org.
This bibliography was written and compiled by Amy Levine and Caroline Kelley of the SIECUS staff.
Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents.
by Zucker, Kenneth J. Guilford Press. 1995. An in-depth resource on the diagnosis, assessment, etiology, and treatment of gender identity disorder in children and adolescents, reviewing recent clinical work and research in the field. After an overview of the disorder, a section on young children explores the disorder in both boys and girls, looking at toy and role play and anatomic dysphoria as well as biological research on the disorder. The second section focuses on adolescents, transvestic fetishism, and homosexuality. Integrates information from the largest sample of children with the disorder ever studied, as well as studies of adults. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Gendermaps: Social Constructionism, Feminism, and Sexosophical History.
by Money, John Continuum Pub. 1995. Money (pediatrics, medical psychology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) introduced the concept of gender role in 1955. Here, he explains the concept of gendermaps for general readers, exploring the history of gender differentiation and its impact on contemporary, social constructionist explanations of male and female. He discusses four categories of gender coding, feminism before and after gender, and mismatched gender maps. Can you trust a man who equates men's pornography with women's romance novels? Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
* Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
by Kate Bornstein Marcy "Kate Bornstein has written a fabulous book about what it means to be differently gendered. Her experience of being male, being female, being something else entirely, has lead her to ask the question "What is gender, anyway?" This book is the beginning of an answer to that question." New York: Routledge, 1994. Male-to-female transsexual Bornstein challenges the gender binary in this auto-biographical work.
Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School
by Barrie Thorne Drawing on her daily observations from elementary schools in the United States, Thorne provides innovative insights into how children construct and experience gender in school. Defining gender identity as a social process involving groups of children, this book presents the argument that age, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and social class influence the organization and meaning of gender and that it shifts with social contex . 1995; 237 pp; $15.95; ISBN 0-8135-1923-3; Rutgers University Press, Building 4161, P.O. Box 5062, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5062; 800/446-9323; FAX 908/445-1974; E-mail dtgross@rci.rutgers.edu .
* Gender queer Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary
by Joan Nestle (Editor), Riki Wilchins (Editor), Clare Howell (Editor) Perhaps more than any other issue, gender identity has galvanized the queer community in recent years. The questions go beyond the nature of male/female to a yet-to-be-traversed region that lies somewhere between and beyond biologically determined gender. In this groundbreaking anthology, three experts in gender studies and politics navigate around rigid, societally imposed concepts of two genders to discover and illuminate the limitless possibilities of identity. Thirty first-person accounts of gender construction, exploration, and questioning provide a groundwork for cultural discussion, political action, and even greater possibilities of autonomous gender choices. Noted scholar Joan Nestle is joined by internationally prominent gender warrior Riki Wilchins and historian Clare Howell to provide a societal, cultural, and political exploration of gender identity.
Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths Of Male & Female
by Phyllis Burke This book examines three major aspects of gender: behavior, appearance, and science. Through analysis of current research in psychology, genetics, neurology, and sociology, Burke challenges the many myths of America's gender system of male and female. She also addresses the popular diagnosis in children of gender identity disorder. 1996; $23.95; 308pp; ISBN 0-385-47717-1; Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 2451 S. Wolfe Road, Des Plaines, IL 60018; 800/323-9872; Web site: http://www.bdd.com .
Guilty by Gender
Hap Hanchett ASIN: B0006R85NG
Health Care Without Shame
by Dr. Charles Moser, A Handbook for the Sexually Diverse and their Caregivers. San Francisco, CA: Greenery Press, c1999. An essential purchase for all GLBTQ collections.
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. http://www.glma.org/policy/hp2010/index.shtml
Hermaphrodeities
by Raven Kaldera, The Transgender Spirituality Workbook. [Philadelphia]: Xlibris Corp., 2001.
* Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex
by Alice Domurat Dreger Harvard Univ Pr; ; (March 2000) ISBN 0674001893 From The New England Journal of Medicine ® February 11, 1999 The Massachusetts Medical Society. The condition of hermaphroditism has been recognized since antiquity. The term derives from the Greek legend of the joining of Hermaphroditos and the nymph Salmacis into a single form that was neither male nor female, but both. Culturally, men and women are distinct, yet their sexual structures arise from common bipotential precursors. This fact explains how intersexuality can result from aberrations in the sexual-differentiation pathway.
In Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, Alice Domurat Dreger chronicles the medical diagnosis and treatment of hermaphroditism from the perspective of both the subject and the medical community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She traces the advancement of medical technology and its effects on the classification of persons with intersexual disorders. The book covers the period during which sexual identity was being questioned in both scientific and medical theory and the ideas of sex, sexuality, and gender had not yet become distinct from one another.
During this time, one's "true sex" was felt to be based solely on the presence of a testis or an ovary. The number of people recognized with hermaphroditism was increasing, in part because of improved access to gynecologic care and more reporting of medical findings in the literature. This increase led to the need for criteria to define maleness and femaleness in order to keep the two sexes distinct. Also during this time, physicians emerged as the authorities in determining sex and anatomical identity. To show the effect of cultural differences in the management of intersexual disorders, Dreger has chosen to study hermaphrodites in Britain and France.
Dreger uses case histories of people with intersexual conditions and describes the responses of their physicians to illustrate why definitions of true sex were thought to be necessary. She explores the social, economic, and political ramifications of having a "mistaken" sex. In her book, the term "hermaphrodite" is used loosely to describe someone with ambiguous genitalia or someone whose external genitalia do not correspond with the internal gonads; she does not necessarily use it to imply true hermaphroditism (the presence of both testicular and ovarian tissue).
An epilogue has been added to the book to cover the treatment of intersexual conditions today and to show how history influences present-day management. Unfortunately, Dreger's description of present-day management is not up to date. Over the past few years, the voice of people with intersexual conditions has grown louder through autobiographies and the formation of support groups. Dreger has included in the epilogue the histories of people with intersexual conditions who were dissatisfied with their care.
Dreger believes that the current management of intersexual disorders remains very paternalistic. She states:||Doctors typically make decisions about sex assignment with little genuine discussion with the parents. Parents who will not consent to recommendations are subject to pressure, and even those parents who do agree to the surgeries performed do not realize that they are, by implication, consenting to the doctor's right to choose the sex of their child on the basis of a particular anatomically demanding psychosocial theory of gender identity.
She concludes with a plea for "an honest conversation" between physicians and parents. Currently, though, physicians do openly discuss with parents everything known about intersexual conditions. Patricia Y. Fechner, M.D. Dreger's final chapter explores the plight of the intersexed in contemporary America. If we are truely to "celebrate diversity," we are going to have to become educated about the millions of intersexed in this country and become sensitive to their issues... because they are issues that concern us all.
Reviewer: Sherri Groveman (aissg@aol.com) from San Diego, California The history of the clinical management of intersex has previously been relegated to medical texts- texts which illuminate technologies to "treat" intersex while ignoring the experience of the recipients of such protocols. Alice Dreger's book unveils the identities of those who heretofore have appeared in textbook photographs and illustrations with their genitals in sharp focus but with their faces obscured. In the process, Dreger reveals how medicine has often tragically subordinated what is between the patient's ears and in the patient's heart to what is between the patient's legs. While physicians would be well-served to incorporate the information and perspectives Dreger offers, the book should appeal to a far larger audience because it challenges the reader's assumption that sex is like Carvel (two flavors only) when in reality it is Baskins & Robbins." CASE STUDIES welcome here:
Herculine Barbin
Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite by Herculine Barbin. 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.
* Hermophdite and the medical invention of sex
Hidden in Plain Sight
by L Townsend Writers Club Press 2002
Leslie lives life to the fullest. She is loved and respected by her family and friends. Throughout her life, she has achieved many goals including working as a model, getting married and entertaining audiences as a stand-up comedienne. However, all the while, Leslie has been hiding a secret about her past. Always fearful of being rejected and ostracized if the truth came to light, Leslie kept her past just that, the past.
But secrets weigh heavy on her mind and after years of lies and covering her tracks through career pursuits and relationships, she has decided to tell the truth about her transsexual history and the struggle to live with the legacy of her decision.
This story follows the journey of a child in confusion, an adolescent in turmoil and a young adult, who embarks on a quest for wholeness. It is a story of breaking gender barriers and of crossing the chasm from male to female.
High school boy's secret is that he's really a girl
Reviewed by Kate Pavao, Today's young-adult book market is exploding with a slew of new titles about growing up as a gay, lesbian or questioning teen, or as a kid with gay parents or family members. Now Julie Anne Peters pushes the YA market into a new arena with her groundbreaking novel, Luna (Little, Brown and Company; 248 pages; $16.95; ages 15-up), about a transgender high school senior. The book is far from perfect, but it is notable for being the first of its kind, and for providing teens -- and their parents -- with an opportunity to learn about a complicated issue. In the novel, snide narrator Regan is a high school loner whose popular older brother Liam has a big secret: He is really a girl who, as he says, "was born in the wrong body." At home and at school he dresses in "boy role," but when night falls, he comes into Regan's room to get dressed, apply makeup and put on a wig, becoming Luna, the name he has chosen for the girl he truly is. Now, Liamtells his sister it's time to set Luna free; he's going to "transition" into Luna full time. See: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/27/RVGOH773TQ1.DTL
* How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
by Joanne Meyerowitz, If you are going to read one TS book this year, let it be this one. The sub-title is "A History of Transsexuaity in the United States" and it starts not so long ago, with a little review of where we were at the turn of the last century. Through the early operations in Germany it takes the reader, with a stress on not only historical data but the prevailing philosophical reasons for or against SRS at the various times. These flow out chronologically and are then compared, the great medical debate that has raged over our lives. Unexpected, there is a section of illustrations from the fifties which is about the only light material in the book.
It gives a new perspective on the great debates in the medical circles, the mutilation vs. patient needs which still runs beneath our lives when we try to find a doctor. I was unaware that the University of Buffalo had been sued over mayhem and settle out of court, leading credence to that old story. Based on that supposed illegality, why we ended up in Tunisia and Mexico, and Germany, and the real impact of Christine Jorgensen. Using social history and the follow dialogue of the psychiatrists on one side and the endocrinologists on the other, it is a wonder that they now cooperate enough to do is at all.
I got this book Monday and have been reading it non-stop , so interesting is the text on *our* history. I really recommend it... Hugs, Willow
Also see: "How Sex Changed" by Dr. Joanne Meyerowitz New York Times October 29, 2002 http://tinyurl.com/2a0s
Identity Management in Transsexualism
Dallas Denny ISBN: 1880715074
* In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage
by Anne Bolin This work examines transsexualism through an anthropological lens, looking at 16 male transsexuals and the "rites of passage" they undergo in the process of becoming women. The book contains a literature review in the appendix and an extensive bibliography. Contemporary Sociology says "In Search of Eve is an absorbing account of the sociocultural aspects of gender transition. . . . Bolin has produced a carefully crafted, clearly written monograph which scholars of both sexuality and gender can profitably read. I would recommend it also for upper-level students in such courses. The book contains many fascinating insights and new findings." 1988; $14.95; 210 pp; ISBN 0-89789-115-5; Greenwood Publishing Group, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06681; 800/225-5800; FAX: 203/222-1502; E-mail: custserv@greenwood.com ; Web-site: http://www.greenwood.com .
* Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self
by Sharon E. Preves Rutgers University Press (June 2003) ISBN: 0813532280 "With sensitivity and solid critical analysis, INTERSEX AND IDENTITY brings to the fore the long-ignored voices of people with intersex conditions. This is an important and accessible book for all, including "patients,"parents, clinicians, activists, scholars, and novice students."-Cheryl Chase, Founder of the Intersex Society of North America
"In INTERSEX AND IDENTITY Preves has produced the most up-to-date, comprehensive account available of what it is like to grow up and live with a body that isn't simply male or female. This work is compassionate, intelligent, and beautifully written, and promises to be well read and highly valued."-Alice Dreger, author of HERMAPHRODITES AND THE MEDICAL INVENTION OF SEX
* Intersex Child (Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, Vol 8)
by J. Jasso, Nathalie Josso: S. Karger Pub (May 1981) ISBN: 380550909X
* Intersex in the Age of Ethics (Ethics in Clinical Medicine Series)
by Alice Domurat Dreger: University Publishing Group (Jun 1999) ISBN: 1555721001 From The New England Journal of Medicine, May 11, 2000
What is the relation among anatomy, sexual identity, and sexual practices? The authors of Intersex in the Age of Ethics argue that an ethical clinical response to intersexuality (i.e., the intermingling, in varying degrees, of male and female sex characteristics) will be possible only when this question can be answered on the basis of well-documented, long-term case studies of the lives of intersexual persons. To date, this information has not been collected and clinical practice is based on ill-founded assumptions. This book reflects the search for an interim solution. It combines reviews of changing medical responses to intersexual persons with first-person
accounts by intersexual people and their families. The 21 chapters develop a convincing case for the position that the relations among anatomy, sexual identity, and sexual practices are not rigidly fixed, but can vary in highly personal, unpredictable ways. The authors argue that, until better information becomes available, the least damaging course of action is to delay medical intervention until a person is in a position to make an informed decision about the options.
Social and medical attitudes toward people who do not conform to conventional categories of sex are influenced by our understanding of how anatomy influences social behavior. Until recently, the assumption in Western societies has been that anatomy determines sexual identity and, therefore, sexual preferences. In this view, there is a direct relation between a particular kind of body and both a particular sexual identity and a particular set of sexual practices. Sexual identity and practice follow from the body in a predictable and consistent manner. Given this assumption, it is hardly surprising that so much medical attention has been given to categorizing, defining, and reshaping intersexual bodies. The understanding is that once these unruly bodies have been made to conform, appropriate identities and practices will follow seamlessly.
In Victorian times, this shaping of the intersexual body was achieved by a kind of "conceptual surgery." The gonads were designated as the defining anatomical characteristic, and all other considerations were deemed irrelevant. If ovaries were present, the person was defined as female and would be expected to have only male sexual partners; if testes were present, the person was defined as male and would be expected to have only female sexual partners. By defining a sex for each ambiguous body, appropriate behavior was established for each person with such a body. The way in which such people experienced their bodies, identities, or sexual desires was not considered. Bodies mattered only to the extent that they were vehicles for ensuring that a person behaved in socially appropriate ways. As the range of clinical techniques expanded through the 20th century, the conceptual reduction of intersexual bodies was replaced by surgical reduction. The bodies of intersexual infants were carved to fit the social categories these children would be required to inhabit as adults. The birth of an intersexual baby became a "medical emergency," and the infant's ambiguous body was surgically "cured" to save the adult from social pathology.
As the first two parts of this book establish beyond doubt, the underlying assumption, that anatomy determines sexual identity and therefore practice, is not borne out in the life experiences of intersexual persons. Although we do not yet understand exactly how a person acquires a sexual identity or comes to desire specific types of sexual contact, it is clear that behavior cannot be predicted on the basis of an infant's gonadal, genital, or genetic makeup. As a result, surgical treatment of intersexual infants does not facilitate the unproblematic acquisition of a stable sexual identity, even though it is undertaken almost solely for this purpose. On the contrary, early surgery sometimes creates new problems: loss of sexual feeling, loss of fertility, lifelong urinary pain and dysfunction, and the social difficulties that follow from these conditions. The authors point out that being intersexual is a lifelong experience, irrespective of whether a person undergoes "corrective" surgery. Medical interventions, whether surgical or hormonal, do not "cure" a person of an intersexual condition. Rather, such interventions create further uncertainty with respect to the already ambiguous intersexual body, often compounding rather than reducing distress and confusion.
Although this book is full of diverse voices and styles of writing, it is a tightly focused collection with a consistent point of view. Each of the 21 chapters contributes to the development of the overall argument, and each chapter also has its own story to tell. These stories are variously academic and personal, powerful and unassuming, moving and disturbing, sad and joyful. However, all contributions are informative and compelling. No reader will put down this book unchanged. Yvonne Marshall, Ph.D. Copyright © 2000 Massachusetts Medical Society. Reviewer: David T. Ozar, PhD from Loyola University of Chicago "The range of ethical issues that arise in regard to the treatment of intersex infants, children, and adults is richly representative of clinical healthcare ethics generally. By incorporating the perspective of patients and their stories into its account, however, INTERSEX IN THE AGE OF ETHICS does more than introduce the questions of healthcare ethics in microcosm. It also leads the readers to examine the effect of ethical reflection on the lives of patients. INTERSEX IN THE AGE OF ETHICS is a model, in both senses of this word, of what thoughtful healthcare ethics reflection can accomplish. Reviewer: Ms. Caron Rachelle Burke from Hartford County, Connecticut Alice Domurat Dreger has written what may well come to be regarded as the definitive work on intersexuality. By employing a collective and inclusive approach, Ms. Dreger is able to provide both personal and medical perspectives on intersexuality provided by individuals, their families and compassionate medical providers. personal odyssies, why only those people affected should be the decision makers in their care. I hope that every intersexed person, every family member or parent of an intersexed individual reads this book. And I pray that every medical professional who treats intersexed individuals, beginning with obstetricians, pediatricians and pediatric urologists, takes to heart the suggestions for adapting care to a patient-directed philosophy of medical care.
* Invisible Lives
by Viviane K Namaste, The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. A scholarly study of transsexuals and cross-dressers.
From the Inside Flap
Invisible Lives is the first scholarly study of transgendered people-cross-dressers, drag queens, and transsexuals-and their everyday lives. Through combined theoretical and empirical study, Viviane K. Namaste argues that transgendered people are not so much produced by medicine or psychiatry as they are erased, or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings.
Namaste begins her work by analyzing two theoretical perspectives on transgendered people-queer theory and the social sciences-displaying how neither of these has adequately addressed the issues most relevant to sex change: everything from employment to health care to identity papers. Namaste then examines some of the rhetorical and semiotic inscriptions of transgendered figures in culture, including studies of early punk and glam rock subcultures, to illustrate how the effacement of transgendered people is organized in different cultural sites. Invisible Lives concludes with new research on some of the day-to-day concerns of transgendered people, offering case studies in violence, health care, gender identity clinics, and the law.
Just Add Hormones
by Matt Kailey, 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.
* Katherine’s diary
* Kim: A True Story
by Kim Harlow & Bettina Rheims ISBN: 1898787603
Language of the Sexes
by Francine Frank and Frank Anshen State University of New York Press, Albany. ISBN:0-87395-882-9 (PBK).
* Last time I wore a dress
by Daphne Scholinski At fifteen years old, Daphne Scholinski was committed to a mental institution and awarded the dubious diagnosis of "Gender Identity Disorder." She spent three years--and over a million dollars of insurance--"treating" the problem...with makeup lessons and instructions in how to walk like a girl. Daphne's story--which is, sadly, not that unusual--has already received attention from such shows as "20/20," "Dateline," "Today," and "Leeza." But her memoir, bound to become a classic, tells the story in a funny, ironic, unforgettable voice that "isn't all grim; Scholinski tells her story in beautifully evocative prose and mines her experiences for every last drop of ironic humor, determined to have the last laugh." (Time Out New York)
* Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
by Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, The first of a set of a dozen followed by: Tribulation Force, Nicolae, Soul Harvest, Assassins, The Indwelling, The Mark, Desecration, The Remnant. Two more to go LEFT BEHIND: the beginning of a novel series that has literally changed the world. Full of action and emotion, LEFT BEHIND takes you into the middle of the time which is to come. Read and learn. Your entire life will be changed! I guarantee it! Grade: A+
P.S. See the hit film adaptation with Kirk Cameron and Brad Johnson after you read the book!
Legal Aspects of Transsexualism
Sr. Mary Elizabeth, SSE ISBN: 0962597600 1990
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging: Research and Clinical Perspectives
Edited by Douglas Kimmel, Tara Rose, and Steven David ISBN: 0-231-13618-8, Columbia University Press
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues
by Anthony J. Silvestre, Selections from the American Journal of Public Health. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2001.
* Lesson from the Intersex
by Suzanne J. Kessler ISBN: 0813525306 This an excellent book on the "gender theory". It is also a starting point for new gender activism. Kessler tells us the intersexed "real lives stories" of pain and suffering. She deconstructs the medical retoric as to how doctors "enforce gender" while inflicting both physical and psychic harm on their intersexed patiennts. She compares the gential reconstruction imposed on the intersexed with that begrundingly provided to (m-to-f) transsexual women and suggested to women with genital cancer. Kessler shows a how we might change gender for the benifit of all. She says: "Institutionalized mutilations occur because the gentials too are taken too seriously...If we want people to respect particular bodies, they need to be taught to lose respect for ideal ones." She suggest that genital piercing, people creating "custom" gentials or men growing breast for their own self pleasure are initial steps to breaking down the connetion between body and gender. From that the two gender system will break down.
Her book has a large number of foot notes and cross references to other works. She is well read and very current. The text is some 131 pages. The footnotes are another 30 pages. The glossary is 4 pages. The bibliography is 10 page. And the index is another 12. This a very well researched book with innovative ideas.
Her closing words are: "We must use what ever means to we have to give up on gender. The problems of intersexuality [and gayness, transsexuals, transvities, ect] will vanish and we will, compensate intersexuals for all the lessons they have provided."
Life and Deaths of Carter Falls
by Gypsey Teague ISBN: 159286435X After a brutal murder at the Taiwanese Embassy Danny St. Claire, National Security Agency Bureau Chief must assume the identity and physical form of his dead cousin Special Agent Claire Daniels in order to stop the murderer from killing again. Teamed with Dr. Rachel Jackson, a brilliant psychiatrist, the two delve into the mysteries of a town so evil and ancient that the impossible is commonplace. With a backdrop of myth and legends the two, with help from four male agents, discover that some secrets are best left hidden at all costs.
* Looking Beyond the Mountains
by Steven Hammond, Gurney Norman ISBN-13: 9781893239715 2007. Linda Jean Hammond was born June 2, 1956 in Bellefontaine, Ohio. Like many families from the Eastern Kentucky coal fields in the 1950s, the Hammond family moved to Ohio and then to Indiana in search of work. Also, like many Kentucky mountain families in the 1950s, Linda’s family moved back to Eastern Kentucky after less than a year "up north." The place and situation they returned to was familiar but no less difficult to survive in than before.
In Linda’s first six years, her father Floyd Hammond was often away from the family, sometimes job-hunting, other times on drunken binges. When Floyd was drunk at home, he often became violent and cruel. When Linda’s mother Christine would see Floyd staggering toward the house, obviously drunk, she would call out for the children to hide. They would run to the bedroom and crawl under the old iron bed and listen to their father banging on the door. On one occasion, Christine made a birthday cake for one of the children. Floyd poured salt on it and then placed the eyeballs of a slaughtered hog on the icing. Among Linda’s memories was the time her father tied the children’s puppies in a sack and slammed them against a tree, killing them all.
When Linda was six years old and in first grade, her father was killed in a car wreck, leaving Christine to raise five children with little help. They lived in small rental houses with no indoor plumbing and very little food. Many times Christine went without food so the children would have enough to eat. At one point the family received federal "commodity" food each month. Linda and the other children found a hole in the "commodity building" through which they could reach in and pull food items from the building.
In spite of her rough childhood, Linda did well in school and had many friends. In the seventh and eighth grade she was a cheerleader and played softball with the boy’s team. At seventeen Linda quit school and took a job at a greeting card factory in nearby Berea, Kentucky, working on the shipping dock, loading and unloading trucks. Her co-workers accepted her as a genial young woman who could lift and load freight as well as they could. Linda was still working at the factory when medical tests confirmed that she was not a girl after all, but a boy who had been born with "ambiguous genitalia."
At age 25, the young man named himself Steven.
And that is just the beginning of Linda/Steven Hammond’s story.
I think many serious readers will be drawn to this book and to the ideas implicit in it. Clearly, college and university scholars interested in gender studies will find much to discuss here. Many people will identify with Steven’s story of family dysfunction in the midst of relentless, grinding poverty. Some may be shocked by the grim details of the effects of a violent, profane, alcoholic father upon a family that barely had the resources to survive, let alone the resources to flee their dangerous situation.
Our nation’s economic system was part of the plight of the Hammond family. Floyd Hammond was one of millions of American workers who, in the boom times of the post-World War II era, were forced to leave their rural and small town homes and move to industrial cities to find employment. Such realities form the backdrop for the story of the young factory worker Linda Hammond who became Steven Hammond, a courageous person who would one day write a book about his unique life.
One of the most moving passages in Looking Beyond the Mountains occurs when Linda reveals to her family and community that she is now Steven. It was not easy for Steven or his family and community members to deal with such news. Local people who had known Linda all her life had to rearrange themselves on many levels—psychological, emotional, social and religious, to name a few—in the process of shifting their affections to the new Steven. Steven’s account of how most local people rose to the occasion and accepted and supported his transition is inspiring. For me, the most moving passage in the book is the description of the deep sense of loss that Steven and the people around him felt when they had to say goodbye to Linda, who had been their friend and neighbor for twenty-five years.
I have enjoyed talking to Steven and reading his written words in the years that I have known him. He and I both are hillbillies. We share much of the old vernacular language of Appalachian mountain people. To some degree, we both grew up in a late form of oral culture whose origins reach far back in time. The early drafts of Looking Beyond the Mountains featured some colorful phonetic spelling of certain words. I am pleased to see that the years Steven has spent writing and re-writing this book, followed by professional editing, have not diluted the original flavor of his language. Steven’s writing style is his own. His story is presented in short takes, with memories, thoughts, scenes and anecdotes combined in a patchwork design. Many of these short pieces give quick, often comic, portraits of several vivid characters in the Sand Gap, Kentucky community. Steven portrays the local people of his home community in respectful, affectionate terms.
Steven first shared his remarkable story with the public through newspaper articles and television interviews, including an appearance on Oprah in July 1988. He felt that, as interesting and useful as the show had been, his real story had not been recognized. Steven wanted, and still wants, people to know that his life-long struggle with gender identity began with, in his words, "a medical error" when he was born. As Steven describes in this book, his male genitals were in place but they were hidden by a fold of flesh. Steven has never thought that he experienced a physical "sex change" when he became an adult. His physical change was "a surgical correction of a birth defect." Psychologically and emotionally, however, Steven did indeed experience profound personal change.
Looking Beyond the Mountains is the story of Linda Jean and Steven Hammond, told in Steven’s own words.
— Gurney Norman, author of Kinfolks and Divine Right's Trip
* Looking for normal, play & movie
by Jane Anderson ISBN: 0822218577 Dramatist's Play Service (May 1, 2002)
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 intersexed and transgendered individuals.
Love Makes a Family
by Gigi Kaesar, 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.
Luna
by Julie Ann Peters 2004 ISBN: 0316733695 a novel geared to young adults. A 2004 National Book Award Finalist, Luna, which will come out in paperback in December, tells Liam's story, which is a familiar one: a teenager's quest to find his own, authentic identity. Except in Julie Ann Peters' novel, Liam's true self is female. He is Luna.
* Made in God's Image
by Ann Thompson Cook Get your copy from http://www.madeinimage.org/ A Resource for Dialogue about the Church and Gender Differences, Ann Thompson Cook communicates a gently assertive expectation that we as Christians need to get up to speed on something too rarely discussed but very important for the life of the church and its ministries. Combining valuable information, personal sharing, and resources, this booklet is a perfect starting place for any congregation, family, or individual seeking to better understand transgender issues and to provide a supportive environment for all of God’s children.
Male Femaling: A Grounded Theory Approach to Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing
by Richard Ekins American Journal of Sociology "...vivid cases of gender arrangements and encourages readers to think about them in the broadest possible way."
Making Gender: The Politics of Erotics and Culture
by Sherry B. Ortner, Spanning approximately 25 years, Ortner draws on her work in feminist anthropology to present a significant reconsideration of culture and gender. This collection of essays theorize the way people act within a cultural context in order to alter those very contexts. They include: "Is Female-to-Male As Nature Is to Culture?," "Rank and Gender," and "Borderland Politics and Erotics: Gender and Sexuality in Himalayan Mountaineering." 1996; $25.00; 262 pp; ISBN: 0-807-04632-9; Beacon Press, 25 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108-2892; 617/742-2110; FAX: 617/723-3097.
* Man and woman boy and girl: Differentiation and Dimorphism of Gender Identity from Conception to Maturity
by John Money How do men become men and women become women? How does a child establish gender identity? By what processes is the human being directed toward reproductive maturity as either male or female? In Man and Woman, Boy and Girl, John Money and Anke Ehrhardt offer a comprehensive account of sexual differentiation using genetics, embryology, endocrinology and neuro-endocrinology, psychology, and anthropology. Their multidisciplinary approach to gender identity avoids the old arguments over nature versus nurture. Money and Ehrhardt focus instead on the interaction of hereditary endowment and environmental influence. Money and Ehrhardt's work will lead many readers to the conclusion that the differences between man and man, or woman and woman, can be as great as between man and woman. A new model of sexual differentiation emerges from this conclusion. It indicates that the social roles of men and women, rather than being fixed by membership in a sexual caste, should be related to individual biography, achievement, and incentives. Still the most thorough treatment of the subject, this latest printing contains a new preface by John Money.
* Mark 947
by Calpernia Addams .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.
* Masculinizing Hormonal Therapy for the Transgendered
by Sheila Kirk, M.D. This companion to Feminizing Hormonal Therapy for the Transgendered is written for the female-to-male transgendered person. The same topics are covered in both books from different perspectives. 1996; $14.95 + $2.00 shipping and handling; 57 pp; ISBN 1-887796-02-9; Together Lifeworks, P.O. Box 38114, Blawnox, PA 15238-9998; 412/781-1092; FAX: 415/781-1096; E-mail: sheilakirk@aol.com .
* Medical, Legal & Workplace Issues for the Transsexual
by Sheila Kirk, M.D. & Martine Rothblatt, J.D. This book provides comprehensive and accurate information encountered by transsexuals or those going through this transition. Focusing on medical, legal, and workplace issues for the transsexual, it addresses three distinct periods for each topic: the transition, the surgical experience, and convalescence. 1995; $18.95 + $2.00 shipping and handling; 148 pp; ISBN 1-887796-00-2; Together Lifeworks, P.O. Box 38114, Blawnox, PA 15238-9998; 412/781-1092; FAX: 415/781-1096; E-mail: sheilakirk@aol.com .
Men as Women, Women as Men
by Sabine Lang, Changing Gender in Native American Cultures. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. Provides a historical and cultural overview of the role of the berdache.
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides ISBN 0786257008 I have not seen much about this book in TS-related sites, but it does involve gender identity--"Middlesex" is indeed about being intersexed.
The novel, by Pulitzer Prize winning Jeffrey Eugenides, is about a Greek family as told by Calliope/Cal Stephanides, an intersexed person with 5-alpha-reductace deficiency.
In the beginning of the book, we read:
"Specialized readers may have come across me in Dr. Peter Luce's study, 'Gender Identity in 5-Alpha-Reductase Pseudohermaphrodites.'"
Whereas the book is fictional, as well as the Dr. Peter Luce mentioned, if we look at the real article, we see:
"N Engl J Med. 1979 May 31;300(22):1233-7. Related Articles, Links
"Androgens and the evolution of male-gender identity among male pseudohermaphrodites with 5alpha-reductase deficiency.
"Imperato-McGinley J, Peterson RE, Gautier T, Sturla E.
"To determine the contribution of androgens to the formation of male-gender identity, we studied male pseudohermaphrodites who had decreased dihydrotestosterone production due to 5 alpha-reductase deficiency. These subjects were born with female-appearing external genitalia and were raised as girls. They have plasma testosterone levels in the high normal range, show an excellent response to testosterone and are unique models for evaluating the effect of testosterone, as compared with a female upbringing, in determining gender identity. Eighteen of 38 affected subjects were unambiguously raised as girls, yet during or after puberty, 17 of 18 changed to a male-gender identity and 16 of 18 to a male-gender role. Thus, exposure of the brain to normal levels of testosterone in utero, neonatally and at puberty appears to contribute substantially to the formation of male-gender identity. These subjects demonstrate that in the absence of sociocultural factors that could interrupt the natural sequence of events, the effect of testosterone predominates, over-riding the effect of rearing as girls."
We see that these intersexed individuals tend to have male gender identities.
Yet, Cal's doctor (Luce) has other intentions for him at age 14, and writes in his report (which Cal discovers and reads):
"PRELIMINARY STUDY"GENETIC XY (MALE) RAISED AS FEMALE
"?a decision to implement feminization surgery along with corresponding hormonal treatments seems correct. To leave the genitals as they are today would expose her to all manner of humiliation. Though it would be possible that the surgery may result in partial or total loss of erotosexual sensation, sexual pleasure is only one factor in a happy life. The ability to marry and pass as a normal woman in society are also important goals?"
In short, we see a typical old-school approach to treating intersexed boys--give him a male-to-female sex change and who cares if "she" can never orgasm afterwards.
But Cal is not a helpless little baby--he is 14 and capable of making up his own mind. Like many of us, the decision of surgery, gender role, and coping with gender identity comes to a crucial point even at the expense of what the family thinks is proper.
Although not about transsexuality per se, the book does keep the subject of gender identity in the public eye, letting the lay person know that sex and gender are not black and white.
Kelly
Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
* Mom, I Need To Be A Girl
Just Evelyn This out of print book is written by the mother of a young transsexual. Highly readable, it is the heartwarming account of how Evelyn helped her new daughter, Danielle, negotiate her way through the various social institutions in the USA. The book contains useful advice for parents and transgendered children on how to deal with family, schools, the medical profession, and day to day life. Evelyn wisely advises: "Let your teen make the decisions about his or her life whenever possible. Keep a sense of humour and use lots of hugging." She also notes that if transgendered kids see themselves as "brave and proud" others are less likely to view them as outcasts.
. . . . This is definitely NOT a child's book. Written in a language that any high school student should be able to comprehend completely, it is primarily a book for the parent of a transsexual child to read. It chronicles the extreme difficulties faced by a single mother of a transsexual teenage boy transitioning to womanhood. The reader will quickly become angered at the politics which come into play at the local level and at the incompetence rampant within the medical establishment, particularly in the psychiatric arena where so-called experts, who seem to have little knowledge of the issues involved, don't blink an eye at charging exhorbitant fees for their incompetent services and advice.
This book is a MUST READ for every adult with a transsexual child. I firmly believe there should be a copy in every public library, and it should be on the bookshelf of every counsellor, psychiatrist and psychologist. Samantha A. Perrin
* My Husband Betty
by Helen Boyd, 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.
My Sisters
by Leona Lo and Lance Lee, Their Stories. Singapore: Viscom Editions, 2003. Explores the lives of male-to-female transsexuals in Singapore and Thailand through text and photos.
My Story
by Caroline Cossey, London; Boston: Faber & Faber, 1991. British fashion model Tula (Caroline Cossey) is revealed as transgender, and describes her fight for the right to marry. (author may also be listed as “Tula” in some editions.)
* Myths of gender: Biological Theories About Women and Men
by Anne Fausto-Sterling I'm not surprized that more people haven't read this book,because it gives the human being a maze of possiblities and HUMAN potential not limited by gender,which maybe to frightening for the Mars and Venused public to accept,since it leaves the door wide open for limitless potential and variations among persons atributed to individuality and not gender. I found other gender related books to be very limiting,which lead me to take some tests on spatial and verbal ability,let's just say,under the narrow Brain Sex mode,I would have a completely male brain in a female body!..after my test,my suspicions increased and I did some further reading and found this book. The writer explains how researchers may not be entirely ojective, how you cannot in any way base all gender behavior on a limited amount of subjects,since we of course have over a billion persons roaming the planet with many different individual abilites,and how there is an agenda against women's advancement in science and math,which of course demand sound logic and spatial reasoning. Expand your possibities,get the gender limits off your minds, and soar! Ame Hunter
None So Pretty
by Reg McKay, The Sexing of Rebecca Pine: The Story of a Changing Life. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1999. After 64 years, with children and grandchildren, Robert Pine decided to face his transgendered truth.
* Not Just A Touch See More
The book can be ordered directly from my publisher at http://www.publishamerica.com
ISBN 1-59129-928-4 The book will be released within the next two weeks, (1st week of May 2003) it will be available in all major book stores. the retail price is $19.95 Jerry's story told in 'Not Just A Touch' is not the first story of abuse I have read however it is one of the most emotionally hard stories I have ever read. For those that may have read Dave Pelzer's story, A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive and the others in Pelzer's series this is similiar. Jerry not only had to deal with the abuse but also deal with a past that was hidden, clouded and revealed to him and his spouse Cheryl. As an individual with a gender blessing myself I can understand what Jerry went through in trying to understand the uniqueness he was blessed with. I will however never understand how another human being can abuse a person in the way that Jerry was. Throughout the story Jerry speaks about being weak and powerless however I submit to you that it takes a strong individual to come through a childhood such as that and cannot help but think that Cheryl has been a blessing in his life.
It is a fact the one in every 2000 children are born with some type of genital abnormality. Compare this to cystic fibrosis which is one in every 2500 and one begins to wonder why society knows and accepts little about those of us blessed with intersexuality. There are two major, unwarranted and unsubstantiated claims by doctors involved in infant genital mutilation (IGM).
1)they believe they can decide which gender to assign someone, and 2)that there are only two choices - male and femaleThe nature of diagnosising the intersexed individuals gender is time-consuming and based on the gender theory that gender be assigned at birth. This alone presents the physician as well as parents with a dilemma if they strive to place the child in one of the customary genders, male or female.
Being intersexed is nothing to be shameful of. I stand with Jerry and others to say that IGM must stop. Abuse of any kind should not be tolerated. As you read this story and go through the emotional rollercoaster, remember that this is something that took you only a few hours to read yet Jerry lived with the abuse for decades. This abuse will continue to live within Jerry and others through out their lives. I encourage you to educate yourselves about intersexualism and reconsider that what some may see as physiologically normal is nothing more than what has been customary or accepted out of ignorance. I encourage you to get involved and stop child abuse.
Thanks to Jerry and Cheryl for letting me preview their story., Dalelynn
Normal
by Amy Bloom, 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.
Nurturing Queer Youth
by Linda Stone Fish and Rebecca G. Harvey, Family Therapy Transformed. New York: Norton & Company, 2005. Aimed at the therapeutic professional, this volume will offer insights to families of GLBTQ youth.
Our Bodies, Ourselves
by Boston Women's Health Book Collective ISBN: 0684842319
Our Trans Children
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
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.
Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology,
A Multidisciplinary Approach. Adam H.Balen, Sarah M. Creighton, Melanie C. Davies, Jane MacDougall, and Richard Stanhope, eds. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Recommended by the Intersex Society of North America.
Passage Through Trinidad by Claudine Griggs, Journal of a Surgical Sex Change. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., c1996. Griggs discusses her sex change from decision, through surgery, and beyond.
Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of a Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love
by Edward Ball, 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.
* Phallus palace: Female to Male Transsexuals (Paperback)
by Dean Kotula, William E. Parker editor A great overview of the subject. The before and after photographs are great and the text contains both scientific and personal essays.
* Physician's Guide to Transgendered Medicine
Sheila Kirk, M.D. Written for the medical doctor, Physician's Guide To Transgendered Medicine, provides effective feminizing and masculinizing hormonal regimens that will aid him/her in administering treatment to their Male to Female or Female to Male patient. Dr. Kirk combines her many years of private practice in transgender care and her direct association with the worldwide experts in transgender medical care and research to provide effective methods in diagnosis and management of the transgender patient.
Pioneers of Transgendering,
The Contribution of Virginia Prince. David King, Richard Ekin, editors. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Medical Press, 2005. While Prince was a controversial figure in the transgender community, her contribution should not be overlooked by those seeking an historical overview.
Preventing Prejudice
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Lesson Plans for Elementary Schools. Buena Vista Lesbian and Gay Parents Group, 1999.
Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster
Peggy Huddleston
Prisoner of Gender
Katherine Johnson & Stephanie Castle
Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology
by Brett Beemyn & Mickey Eliason, Editors This anthology addresses the relationship between personal sexual identity and the larger society. The collection is presented in two parts: The first part focuses primarily on "Issues of Gender" and the second, on "Queer Theory in Practice," puts these issues into perspective. Unlike many gender theory books, this anthology was designed for a broader readership and is equally accessible to both academics and lay people. 1996; $24.95; 318 pp; ISBN 0-8147-1258-4; New York University Press, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012; 800/996-6987; FAX: 212/995-3833
Queer Theory, Gender Theory : An Instant Primer (Paperback)
by Riki Wilchins A one-stop, no-nonsense introduction to the core of postmodern theory, particularly its impact on queer and gender studies. Nationally known gender activist Riki Wilchins combines straightforward prose with concrete examples from LGBT and feminist politics, as well as her own life, to guide the reader through the ideas that have forever altered our understanding of bodies, sex and desire. This is that rare postmodern theory book that combines accessibility, passion, personal experience and applied politics, noting at every turn why these ideas matter and how they can affect your daily life.
Raised by Wolves: A TS Diary
Melanie Anne Phillips
* Read My Lips
by Riki Anne Wilchins, Knowing Riki is a blessing. Riki signed my book and said at the time of doing so there was a lot of me in there. As an intersexed person that had just begun to read the book I had my reservations however we both see gender issues in a similiar fashion, this I already knew. The further I got into the book the more I begun to understand that Riki truly understands what people are all about. While her book is part autobiography and part gender/fem theory it allows those with an open mind to share a fresh perspective of just how all theis 'gender stuff' impacts Everyone! Truly a wonderful book.
Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at the fin de siecle
More, Kate and Whittle, Stephen, Editors. Cassell Academic 1999
Reflections on Gender and Science
by Evelyn Fox Keller Yale Univ., 1985. Another author who changed forever my view of the academic world I inhabit, Keller shows that what we think of as rational, objective science actually reflects men's ways of approaching knowledge. In an example I particularly relish, Keller writes that biologists failed to identify the way that slime mold changes from single-cell organisms to multicellular aggregates because they stubbornly sought a nonexistent, boss-like "pacemaker" cell that orders the others to combine.
(Deborah Tannen is University Professor and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University.)
Respect and Equality: Transsexual and Transgender Rights
by Stephen Whittle
Risk and Citizenship: Key Issues in Welfare
by Rosalind Edwards ISBN: 0415241596 Routledge (November 1, 2001) This spirited and informed collection of papers by leading analysts addresses key questions related to welfare, citizenship and risk including: the nature of insecurity and social protection; the balance between inequality and egalitarianism; the relationship between governments and citizens; the parameters of citizenship; and the impact of risk assessment and risk management.
Same Sex Marriage: The Moral and Legal Debate
by Robert M. Baird & Stuart E. Rosenbaum (eds.) ISBN: 1591022746 Prometheus Books; Revised edition (September 30, 2004)
The issue of same-sex marriage has attracted the attention of many political and cultural interests. Same-Sex Marriage: The Moral and Legal Debate presents a balanced sampling of diverse and cogent arguments by academics, politicians, journalists, attorneys, judges, and activists. The perspectives range from the views of lesbian feminists, who decry the institution of marriage as an instrument of oppression, to those of religious and cultural conservatives, who see same-sex marriage as the fatal undermining of traditional family structure and even of Western civilization itsel.f
Sacred Country
by Rose Tremain ISBN: 0671886096 Washington Square Press; Reprint edition (June 1, 1995) Normally books about people trying to "find themselves" do not appeal to me. I'm a reader of historical fiction - thus I discovered Rose Tremain through Music & Silence (Excellent) and Restoration (wonderful read). I purchased this book simply because of the author. When I got it and read the covers, I thought "I've been gipped, this isn't what I wanted" - However, after just a few pages, I was pulled in. Mary/Martin's struggle with gender reflects every individual's struggle to become who they think they are meant to be. Gender identity is only a tool here; it is not the focus of the book. The English farm, the repressed family, the country music scene in Nashville are a perfect backdrop for the inner struggles of characters such as Mary and Walter. The author paints such a realistic picture: Struggles are hard and probably never ending. The book also demonstrates the importance of the "one person" in someone's life who can make such a difference -- in small and often unknowing ways. I can't say I loved this book, but I can say that I am so glad I read it. The world is filled with Marys and Walters, and there is a bit of them in each of us as well. The perspective this book brings is right on target. Rose Tremain is truly a great writer. Mary Reinert
* Second skins
by Jay Prosser ISBN: 0231109350 Columbia University Press (April 15, 1998) "...Prosser brilliantly proposes conceiving the transsexual as experiencing an Imaginary phantomization of the missing sexual organs, perhaps accompanied by an agnosic [sic] relation to the birth organs. Together, these conditions combine to motivate the transsexual to seek sex reassignment surgery as a healing of what is indeed a condition of gender dysphoria....Prosser's second substantial contribution, in Second Skins, is a critique of poststructuralist analyses of gender and transgender....Prosser's theorization of the role of narrative in transsexual self-fashioning, and his explication of a range of exemplary transsexual autobiographies are acute and illuminating.... Second Skins does difficult, important work in helping us to think transsexuality critically rather than judgmentally." -- Jody Norton, Eastern Michigan University, Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter
Self-Made Man One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again
by Norah Vincent ISBN: 0670034665 by Atlantic Books. From "C. Hutton "book maven" (East Coast, USA) "Self-Made Man" takes the premise of the 1982 movie "Tootsie" where Dustin Hoffamn plays a straight male cross-dressing as a woman and reverses it : a gay woman cross-dresses as a man. As a woman, Ms. Vincent was curious what it would be like to be a man (in much the same fashion that John Griffin wondered what it would be like to be a black man in the 1960's in his "Black Like Me").
Ms Vincent is an insightful, observent writer without having any preconceived agenda for her project. Don't let the book cover fool you into thinking that the book is a publicity stunt -- she is a journalist writing about a culture that is unfamiliar to her. The book is funny and serious with her insights into the world of men -- she is generous with her assessments of the advantages and the emotional drawbacks of being male. "Self-Made Man" is not a male-bashing book and either gender would enjoy reading of Ms. Vincent's adventures.
Sex and Gender the Transsexual Experiment.
by Robert Stoller, Jason Aronson 1976
Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections On Identity, Institutions and Imperialism
by Viviane Namaste
"This is a provocative, thoughtful book that challenges readers to think carefully about human rights, feminism, lesbian and gay struggles, and current transgender politics. Namaste's essays make up a useful collection, suitable for courses in Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, Sociology, and Canadian Studies." Dr. Meg Luxton, Director, Women's Studies, York University
* Sex changes
by Patrick Califia-Rice, ISBN: 1573441805 Cleis Press; 2nd edition (August 1, 2003) The Politics of Transgenderism. San Francisco: 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.
Sex Differences in Human Communications
by Barbara Westbrook Eakins and R.Gene Eakins, Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 77-77660, ISBN: 03-395-25510-4
Sex, Gender & Sexuality
Dr. Tracie O'Keefe ISBN: 0952948222 Extraordinary People Press (March, 1999)
* Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
by Anne Fausto-Sterling Basic Books ISBN: 0465077145 Psychoneuroendocrinology--will be fascinated by the puckish observations of Brown University biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling, whose provocative and erudite essays easily establish the cultural biases underlying current scientific thought on gender. She goes on to critique the science itself, exposing inconsistencies in the literature and weaknesses in the rhetorical and theoretical structures that support new research. "One of the major claims I make in this book," she explains, "is that labeling someone a man or a woman is a social decision. We may use scientific knowledge to help us make the decision, but only our beliefs about gender--not science--can define our sex. Furthermore, our beliefs about gender affect what kinds of knowledge scientists produce about sex in the first place." Whether discussing genital surgery on intersex infants or the amorous lives of lab rats, the author is unfailingly clear and convincing, and manages to impart humor to subjects as seemingly unpromising as neuroanatomy and the structure of proteins. --Regina Marler Reviewer: Mrs. Evelyn O. Simon from Florida, U.S.A. Humans, God's remarkable creation. It seems as though man's curiosity can't help but destroy the creation.
This book is very educational and full of information to all sexes. For centuries, intersex children were outcasts, and poked fun of with evil jeers. This book tells and shows you about the intersex gender, and its existence. The book is rated E: for everyone. Reviewer: A reader from Tampa, FL USA Wonderfully written and researched! Fausto-Sterling makes a very consice and directed argument. Her position inspires me as a gay man, a scientist and as a human being. Reviewer: tamiii from San Juan Capistrano, Ca. United States ...it all comes down to emotions, recalling that the original meaning of that word was a movement of people, a civil disturbance. From the intersexual to the homosexual, Fausto-Sterling reviews the history and politics that informed the science and medical practice of
20th Century sex. I happily add this volume on the gender politics of popular science to a different but equally interesting work by Simon LeVay, Queer Science. However unlike LeVay, Fausto-Sterling recognizes a relationship between sexualized science and the rise of American monopoly capitalism (and its demands for social stability) though her observations in this arena are frustratingly preliminary. Readers of this book might also enjoy Jennifer Terry's An American Obsession which delves more deeply into cultural history.
Serving Transgender Youth
by Teresa DeCrescenzo and Gerald P. Mallon, The Role of Child Welfare Systems: Proceedings of a Colloquium, September 2000. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America, 2002.
Sexile/Sexilio
by Jamie Cortez, 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.
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.
She’s Not There
by Jennifer Finney Boylan, 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.
S/HE: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes
by Claudine Griggs Oxford, UK; New York: Berg, 1998. Transwoman Griggs explores the pressures to conform to gender stereotypes that transgender individuals face.
Sissies and Tomboys: Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood
by 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.
* Social Services with Transgendered Youth
by Gerald P. Mallon, editor Co-published simultaneously as “Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services,” Volume 10, Numbers 3/4, 1999. New York: Harrington Park Press, c1999.
Speaking As A Woman
by Alison Laing Creative Design Services (March 1, 1989) ISBN: 1880715031
This is the first and only book available for transgendered women on developing a more feminine voice. In fact, it is being used in many voice therapy clinics around the country. Alison covers all the basics from how the voice works to developing the right state of mind when speaking and even non-verbal communication. It is literally the best there is available.
Alsion Laing, in addition to her own studies on voice and communication, "studied" under Dr. Bud Heuer of Temple Unniversity (Phila., Pa.) and Drs. Moya Andrews and Ann Fennell of Indiana University at Fantasia Fair. Dr. Heuer was kinf enough to provide editorial assistance on the first edition.
* Stephany
Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 7 Eonism and Other Supplementary Studies
by Havelock Ellis Eonism (named after Cheva liar d'Eon de Beaumontis, a French public figure and famous transvestite in the late eighteenth century) is Ellis's term for transvestism. In this volume of his large work on the psychology of sexuality, Ellis examines transvestism through case studies. 1928; 539pp; out of print; available in libraries.
* Sugar and spice and puppy dog tails
Suits Me
by Diane Wood Middlebrook, 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.
*Swan Song
by Roget R. McCammon, This is one of the best fiction books I have read. I rarely give any book even 5 stars-it really has to be cuts above a 4 star, but I can't say enough about this book. There are so many layers, levels, and subplots to this book. To be honest, even though it was over 900 pages, I didn't want it to end. Even more incredible, there wasn't one significant soft spot, or part where I got bored. And yes, I have read "The Stand", and this book is NOT a knock-off of that. This book definitely stands on its own, and may actually be better in some ways. I read reviews that stated that people had read the book long ago and had not forgotten it, and had even re-read it. I think that will be true for me also. I loved this book and I think you will too.
The Apartheid of Sex
A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender by Martine Aliana Rothblatt, New York: Crown Publishers, 1995. Rothblatt argues that the limiting of gender expression to male and female, based on biology is an artificial construction.
The Bliss of Becoming One
by Rachael Miller
The Danish Girl
by David Ebershoff ISBN: 0140298487 Penguin (Non-Classics) (February 1, 2001) In his effort to be believable, to try to approximate the true story on which the novel is based, I feel the author leans sometimes too far into pedantics. But as an example of the growing body of work on transgender issues, The Danish Girl is much more than a worthy example. Peggy Vincent
The Dual Alliance
by Stephanie Castle
* The Employer's Guide to Gender Transition
Dianna Cicotello
The Gender Frontier
by Mariette Pathy Allen, 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.
* The Intersexes: A History of Similsexualism As a Problem in Social Life
by Xavier Mayne: Arno Pr (August 1975) ISBN: 040507364X
The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality.
by Sandra Lipsitz Bem. Yale University Press, reissue edition. 1994 In this book, a leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our cultural discourses, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress women and sexual minorities. Sandra Lipsitz Bem argues that these assumptions, which she calls the lenses of gender, shape not only perceptions of social reality but also its more material aspects-like unequal pay and inadequate daycare. Her penetrating and articulate examination of these hidden cultural lenses enables us to look at them rather than through them and to better understand recent debates on gender and sexuality.
The Life And Deaths Of Carter Falls
by Gypsey Teague, ISBN:159286435x Publishamerica. After a brutal murder at the Taiwanese Embassy Danny St. Claire, National Security Agency Bureau Chief must assume the identity and physical form of his dead cousin Special Agent Claire Daniels in order to stop the murderer from killing again. Teamed with Dr. Rachel Jackson, a brilliant psychiatrist, the two delve into the mysteries of a town so evil and ancient that the impossible is commonplace. With a backdrop of myth and legends the two, with help from four male agents, discover that some secrets are best left hidden at all costs.
* The Looming Fog
by Rosemary Esehagu Publisher: Oge Creations Books (June 15, 2006) ISBN: 1933496002
In an isolated village in Nigeria, an intersexual child is born, but the child’s mother instantly dies. Abandoned by the father at the age of seven, the nameless child is plagued by the isolation and loneliness created by the lack of a social role in the community. When the child receives the gift of omniscient sight, it learns of two young women, Kayinne and Onuwa, who despite poverty, subordination, and tragedies are still driven to influence their world. Through exploring the lives of these two women and that of other villagers, the child realizes that while lacking a defined role in society is a problem, it is even worse to not have the opportunity to choose the roles that dictate one’s life. With these problems, how can one live? How can one ever be happy? Is happiness still genuine if it is at the condemnation of others?
Inspired by her mother’s experience, as well as her own observations of her native culture, the author weaves a tale steeped in the traditions and lore of rural Nigeria that explores the struggles of people searching for their identity and status and the role that society plays in creating or encouraging the problems of its members. The Looming Fog is a stimulating examination of our desire to not simply live, but to live well—a desire that is the source of our greatest achievements and failures.
The Media Guide
from IFGE
* The Nature Nurture Debate
by Steven J. (edt) Ceci ISBN:0631217398 2000, Blackwell Publishers, The debate over whether our personal characteristics are determined by our genes (nature) or the way in which we have been brought up (nurture) is now one of the most popular areas of research for both developmental psychologists mad geneticists alike.
The Nature/Nurture Debate: The Essential Readings provides readers with a selection of key articles by leading researchers Rutter, Plomin, and DeFreis, to name a few — in this core area of developmental psychology.
The New Goddess: Transgender women of the 21 Century
by Gypsey Teague, Fine Tooth Press L.L.C.; (February 2006) ISBN: 0976665212
* The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals
by Dean Kotula, William E. Parker (Editor), Cherie Hiser (Preface) $13.97 from Amazon Alyson Pubns; ISBN: 1555836542; (July 2002) The Phallus Palace is a bold approach to the subject of female to male transexuals (FTMs). Personal testaments from FTMs and contributions from a host of others place the subject of transsexualism into a historical, medical,psychological and cultural context. Captivating photographs guide the reader from the FTMs female personae, through surgical operations, to portraits of the men whose self and public identities are finally revealed as one. In Phallus Palace, photographer and writer Dean Kotula gathers together photos, essays, and interviews that explore the experiences of being a FTM. This is a book of many fragmented parts. There are Kotula's photo portraits of FTMs accompanied by their personal statements, a handful of autobiographical pieces by Kotula about transsexuality and his life as a transman, several articles by non-trans professionals who work with FTMs, a series of interviews with doctors who do FTM surgeries and photo essays of their surgical procedures, a couple essays about trans history and the process of transition, and two pieces by family members of FTMs.
The Riddle Of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights
by Deborah Rudacille. Pantheon, $26 (384p) ISBN 0-375-42162-9 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. Science writer Rudacille's sympathetic and well-researched elucidation of the threads that make up the tangled issue of gender variance, most visible in transsexuals, is lively enough to be a good introduction for the educated lay reader and documented enough for the scholar. She considers the interplay between the science of gender and the human side of transgender issues, beginning with the story of the Chevalier d'Éon, who spent the mid-1700s as a man and then lived over three decades as a woman. Her narrative progresses through Magnus Hirschfeld's Berlin Institute for Sexual Science and ends with the possibility that pesticides and synthetic estrogens may be increasing gender variance by affecting human endocrinology Seven interviews with transsexuals prominent in research or activism articulate both the theory and the practice of transsexualism, giving readers the human face of people who don't fit male and female archetypes. Rudacille adeptly discusses the controversies surrounding transsexuality, delving into the Kafka-esque issues around the psychiatric diagnosis of gender identity dysphoria," giving time to those who question sexualreassignment surgery and covering the conflicts between transsexuals and homosexuals, especially lesbian feminists in the 1970s. Rudacille's evenhandedness bolsters her final opinion, which is that gender identity, including variance, is probably hardwired? and that "culture [should] follow nature's lead and celebrate variety." Agent, Flip Brophy.
FYI: This would make an excellent companion volume to Joan Roughgarden's brilliant Evolution's Rainbow
The Spirit & The Flesh
Walter L. Williams
The Standard of Care for Gender Identity Disorders
by Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association. Düsseldorf [Germany]: Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, 1998. The controversial standards of care to which most transgender clients are subjected, in order to obtain the hormones and surgery of their choice.
The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male
by Max Wolf Valerio, due out in May
The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe
by Rudolf Dekker and Lotte C. van de Pol, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
The Tranny Guide Ed. 7
Way Out Publishing
The Transgender Debate - the current crisis in gender identities
by Stephen Whittle, Garnet Pub Ltd 2001
The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male
by Janice G. Raymond Originally published in 1979, this book challenged the medical psychiatric definition of transsexualism as a disease, and it offered sexual conversion hormones and surgery as the cure. Just reissued after 15 years, the book has a new introduction on transgenderism. Chapters include "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Transsexualism," "Are Transsexuals Born or Made--or Both?," "Sappho by Surgery: The Transsexually Constructed Lesbian-Feminist,@ and "Therapy As a Way of Life: Medical Values Versus Social Change." 1994; $17.95; 220 pp; ISBN 0-8077-6272-5; Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027. Order copies from: Teachers College Press, P.O. Box 20, Williston, VT 05495-0020; 800/575-6566; FAX: 802/864-7626.
The Transsexual Phenomenon
by Harry Benjamin, M.D. This book covers many aspects of transsexualism. Sections on sexual reassignment surgery and hormone therapy are written to make the information clear and understandable to lay people. This book is one of the first of its kind and remains an important text even though there have been many advances in this area since it was last published.
1966; 286 pp; out of print; available in libraries.
The Transsexual's Survival Guide II
JoAnn Altman Stringer
* The Uninvited Dilemma: A Question of Gender
by Kim E. Stuart One great book to start looking for answers within ones self. The book is filled with insights that may have you thinking your reading about yourself. While i may not have all the answers it will surely get you asking all the questions. Gender is it what we think of as normal, or we have accepted as customary? There is more than the bi-polar gender that society allows themselves to see!
* TheVagina Monolog
The White Bones of Truth
Cris Newport
The Woman I Was Not Born to Be
by Aleshia Brevard, 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.
Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History
by Gilbert Herdt, Editor A comprehensive anthology of essays, this collection focuses on the evolution of sexual dimorphism in Western culture in comparison to the less dichotomized gender roles of non-Western cultures. The information is divided into two parts: "Historical Contributions" and "Anthropological Contributions." The first half focuses on the treatment of gender in Western history (including discussions about the Sapphists of London and gender morphology in the Balkans). The second half examines different perceptions and manifestations of gender in non-Western cultures. This anthology is valuable for gaining insight into the marked difference between the model of gender in Western culture and other cultures. 1993; $20.00; 614 pp; ISBN 0-942299-82-5; Zone Books, 611 Broadway, Suite 608, New York, NY 10012; 212/529-5674; FAX: 212/260-4572; E-mail: urzone@aol.com . Order copies from: MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142; 800/356-0343, ext. 772; FAX: 617/625-6660; E-mail: mitpress-orders@mit.edu.
Through the Jungle : A Traveler's Guide
by Samantha W. Adams, Book Description: "This book is a rare find, sharing all the joys, stresses, desires, and challenges Samantha faced throughout her first three years of transition. Not always easy to read or glamorous, it details one woman's desire to live fully in this world as her true self. It is a shining example of the resilience of the human spirit and is sure to inspire hope in all who read it." —Kris Keniray, Sexuality Educator
* TG care
To Be A Woman
Jerry/Jerri McClain
* Trans Forming Families
by Ari Ishtar Lev ed, Mary Boenke ed, Jessica Xavier, Intro Mary Boenke is a retired social worker, but this is not a clinical book. It is however a healing book - like warm soup on a cold day - Mary's book serves as a kind of herbal medicine for queer families. As the mother of a transgendered son, she understands all too well the inner journey of discovery for family members of transgendered people. She has collected a diversity of voices expressing the confusion and fears, as well as fierce advocacy and deep acceptance that is the journey of many family members. It is the first book of its kind, although I know it will not be the last.
Trans Liberation
by Leslie Feinberg, Beyond Pink or Blue. Boston, Beacon Press, c1998. Essays by Feinberg and others on the complexity of gender expression.
Transmen and FTMs
by Jason Cromwell, 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.
Trans-Gendered: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith
by Justin Edward Tanis, Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, c2003. A transgender minister discusses the place of the transgender person within religious communities.
Trans-Scriptions - 1996
Gender Identity Center of Colorado
* Trans-x-u-all: The Naked Difference
by Tracie O'Keefe and Katrina Fox Rusty Mae Moore, Ph.D. (MKTRMM@hofstra.edu) from Brooklyn, New York
Tracie O'Keefe and Katrina Fox tell it like it is. They say that there is no such thing as a sex-change. Transsexuals change their bodies to align with their minds and spirits. Speaking as a woman of transsexual experience, this is one of the best books on the suject which I have ever read. I tend to agree with Rusty.
Transaccessibility Project
by Allison Cope, Making Women’s Shelters Accessible to Transgendered Women. [Kingston], Ont.: Violence Intervention and Education Workgroup, VIEW, 1999. http://www.queensu.ca/humanrights/tap/index.html
Transformations
Mariette Pathy Allen
* Transgender Care
Gianna Israel & Donald Tarver II, MD 1998 By empowering clients to be well-informed medical consumers and by delivering care providers from the straitjacket of inadequate diagnostic standards and stereotypes, this book sets out to transform the nature of transgender care. In an accessible style, the authors discuss the key mental health issues, with much attention to the vexed relationship between professionals and clients. They propose a new professional role; that of "Gender Specialist."
Transgender Equality
by Paisley Currah, 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. http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/transeq.pdf
Transgender Emergence
by Arelene Ishtar Lev, 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.Therapeutic Guidelines for working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families (Haworth Press) Arlene Istar Lev, CSW-R, CASAC Family Therapist and Founder, Choices Counseling and Consulting; Adjunct Faculty, School of Social Welfare, State University of New York, Albany
FINALLY, a book that does justice to the life-changing power of psychotherapy in the transgender coming-out process. I recommend this book to any psychotherapist called to work with transgender clients. I also recommend it to transgender individuals who might benefit from understanding how psychotherapy can play an invaluable role. COMPREHENSIVE AND PASSIONATE. . . . TERRIFIC. . . . LONG OVERDUE.
Walter Bockting, PhD, Co-editor, Transgender and HIV: Risks, Prevention, and Care; Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Transgender Health Services, Program in Human Sexuality, University of Minnesota Medical School
The information contained in this book is SO IMPORTANT THAT NO CLINICIAN CAN AFFORD TO MISS IT. The book offers a clear, comprehensive, and cogent review of the history of the mental health field's thinking about sexuality and gender, and an extraordinarily thoughtful and extensive exploration of assessment and intervention issues with gender-variant people and their families. Lev's knowledge of the subject is phenomenal, and the breadth and clarity of her writing are brilliant. This book lays out an enormous amount of complex material in a highly readable and useful text. . . BELONGS IN THE LIBRARY OF EVERY PSYCHOTHERAPIST, COUNSELOR, AND HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL. Monica McGoldrick, MSW, Director, Multicultural Family Institute, Highland Park, New Jersey
Transgender Jurisprudence
by Andrew N Sharpe, Dysphoric Bodies of Law. London: Cavendish, 2002. Sharpe examines and challenges the body of law to which transgendered persons may find themselves subjected.
* Transgender Nation
by Gordene Olga Mackenzie This book examines the traditional categories of sexuality and gender and asserts that contemporary therapies such as sexual reassignment surgery fundamentally support assimilation and discourage tolerance. Mackenzie takes the perspective that "disorder" lies within the culture and not with the individual. 1994; $14.95; 190 pp; ISBN 0-87972-597-4; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Bowling Green, OH 43403; 800/515-5118; FAX: 419/372-8095; E-mail: jamend@bgnet.bgsu.edu .
Transgender Underground
by Claudia Andrei, London: Glitter Books, 2002. Through interviews and photographs, Andrei explores (and dispels) myths about transsexuals, transvestites, drag queens and gender-queer individuals.
Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men
2008 Based on interviews with 150 trans-identified people. The book brings together the voices of sex- and gender-diverse people who speak with absolute candor about their lives. Readers hear transpeople speaking in their own voices about identity, coming out, passing, sexual orientation, relationship negotiations and the dynamics of attraction, homophobia (including internalized fears), and bullying. I expose the guilt and the shame that ìgender policeî use in their attempts to exert control and point out the many ways the gender binary is reinforced in daily life, from filling out identity documents to gender-segregated bathrooms. By showing readers a variety of descriptions of diverse real lives and providing a thorough exploration of the embodied experiences of gender variant people, I demonstrate that there is nothing inherently binary about gender, that the way each of us experiences our own gender and our own gender variance is, in fact, normal and natural. My analysis of gender as perceived, experienced, and expressed by study participants shows that the ìcommon denominatorsî of male/masculine and female/feminine may be illusions.
To order Transgender Voices (ISBN 978-1-58465-645-6, cloth) go to UPNE , or call 800-421-1561
Transgender Warriors
by Leslie Feinberg This work looks at individuals who have defied the cultural boundaries of sexuality and gender throughout history as well as the interrelationship of class, nationality, race, and sexuality. Woven through moving, personal narrative, this history provides a captivating and insightful look at transgendered individuals over time and throughout diverse cultures. 1996; $27.50; 212 pp; ISBN 0-8070-7940-5; Beacon Press, 29 Beacon Street, Boston MA 02108-2892; 617/742-2110; FAX: 617/723-3097
Transgendering Faith: Identity, Sexuality & Spirituality
edited by Leanne McCall Tigert and Maren C. Tirabassi; The Pilgrim Press; paper; 162 pages; $22.
Transgenderism
by Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing Richard Ekins & Dave King, Editors
This anthology of essays approaches the topics of transgenderism and cross-dressing from a variety of angles. The essays are presented in four main categories: political, medical, social, and autobiographical. This resource is a valuable academic tool as it offers an edifying perspective on gender in literature and history. The collection is particularly useful for research in gender theory.
1996; $17.95; 257 pp; ISBN 0-415-11552-3/paperback; Routledge, P.O. Box 6904, Florence, KY 41042-6904; 800/634-7064; FAX: 800/248-4724; E-mail: routledge@kdc.com.routledge ; Web-site: http://www.routledge.com .
Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence by Peggy Tine Cohen-Kettenis,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 intersexed children and teens.
Tranifesto
by Matt Kailey, Selected Columns and Other Ramblings From a Transgendered Mind. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2002.
Transsexual Phenomenon
by Harry Benjamin. Warner Books 1977
Transsexual Workers
Janis Walworth
Transsexuals: Candid Answers
Gerald Ramsey, Ph.D.
Transsexuals: Life from Both Sides
by Lynn ISBN: 0-7881-8749-X Hubschman can be ordered directly from DIANE Publishing Company, Box 1428, Collingdale, PA 19023-8428, USA; tel: 610-461-6200; fax: 610-461-6130; e-mail: dianepub@erols.com. Prepayment is required for all orders, by a money order or a check in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank or by credit card (VISA, MC, AMEX, DISCOVER), which can be accepted over the telephone or by fax. The cost of the book is $20.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling, for a total of $23.00
Lynn's book provides information and personal stories for anyone who wishes to know more about transsexual surgery. Her book covers the history and definition of transsexualism, along with standards for surgery. Medical procedures are briefly reviewed.
Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment
by Richard Green, M.D., & John Money, Ph.D., Editors This book is a collection of articles on various aspects of transsexualism. Chapters on legal, psychological, and treatment (sexual reassignment) issues are included. 1969; out of print but available in xerographically reproduced format; $158.80/hardcover; $152.80/paperback; 512 pp; Books on Demand, Division of UMI, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346; 800/521-0600, extension 4806; FAX: 313/973-1464; E-mail: lclement@umi.com
Transsexuality in the Male: The Spectrum of Gender Dysphoria.
by R. Charles Koranyi, C Thomas Pub Ltd 1980
* Transister radio
Transvestites and Transsexuals: Toward a Theory of Cross-Gender Behavior
by Richard F. Docter This book explores transvestism and transsexualism. The three main approaches in discussing this topic are the biological or medical model, the intrapsychic or psychodynamic model, and the developmental or learning model. A clinical and psychological-based analysis, this book is most suited to people with some knowledge of developmental psychology or clinical psychology. 1988; $39.50; 251 pp; ISBN 0-306-42878-4; Plenum Press, A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013; 800/221-9369; FAX: 212/807-1047; E-mail: books@plenum.com Web-site: http://www.plenum.com .
* True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals
by Mildred L. Brown & Chloe Ann Rounsley This book is a resource for the lay person interested in transgenderism. Brown and Rounsley break down the information into several parts ranging from chapters on psychological development to a section about sexual reassignment operations. Each chapter poses questions and confronts common misconceptions about transgendered people and offers recommendations to caregivers and family. Although the title includes helping professionals as a target audience, the information is more appropriate for people with little or no background in transgenderism. The material is presented in a simple, straightforward style and is easy to understand. 1996; $25.00; 271 pp.; ISBN 0-7879-0271-3; Jossey-Bass Inc., 350 Sansome Street, San Francisco, CA 94104; 800/956-7739; FAX: 800/605-2665; E-mail: cmaden@jpb.com ; Web-site: http://www.josseybass.com
* TS workers employers guide
Two's Company, Three You Die!
by Gypsey Teague 2003 Once again, it is up to the dynamite duo of Claire Daniels and Rachel Jackson to save the world from destruction. The star shaped metal disks they discovered in Carter Falls have again risen to the forefront. In the blink of an eye, complete islands were dropping below the surface of the ocean and disappearing out of sight. It falls on the beautiful shoulders of Claire and Rachel to figure out why.
As Claire and Rachel begin to investigate, they learn of Stephanie, a Carter cousin who lives in London. Claire and Rachel travel to London to enlist her help. Stephanie is the favorite niece of Estelle Carter. Estelle is the one Carter that did not come into the fold, but embraced the world domination theory with her at the very top.
Claire and Rachel meet Dr. Pendulum (Penny) Constant in London also. Penny is a professor of Exo-metallurgy. She has a theory about the strange starfish shaped metal objects. Penny is going to give an important talk about her theory of sentient beings being here on earth. Claire and Rachel were positive she could help solve the mystery.
In Germany, an alliance has been formed to take over. Gerhardt Bunkt and Estelle Carter were top names in the alliance. First, they planned to control Germany and then Germany would control the world, or so Gerhardt Bunkt believes. Unknown to him, Estelle Carter has her own plans.
Two's Company, Three You Die! is the sequel to Ms. Teague's The Life And Deaths Of Carter Falls. Gypsey Teague continues to write novels that are exciting and action packed. The two main characters, Claire and Rachel, are unique individuals and definitely not the norm. If you are looking for a different kind of novel, you definitely want to visit the town of Carter Falls. I can't wait to see where Claire and Rachel lead me next.
Review by Dawn Myers, Writers Unlimited Reviewer
Two Spirit People
Lester B. Brown, PhD.
Two-tiered Existence
by Samantha Kane ISBN: 0953360407 This is the story of the once Sam Hashimi who built himself up in the world of hard business to provide his family with a millionaire lifestyle. He notoriously bid for Sheffield Wednesday FC only to be rejected at the last minute because he was an Arab. If you think this is discrimmination then you will not believe how he was treated by those in the business world when he decided to change his sex! This is an honest and frank biography that does not read like a fairytale. The bad times are bad and the good times are fabulous. One can only respect this lady for how she has lived and lost. She is a true fighter and a total inspiration to others that are considering the painful steps of changing sex. I am a real girl but I happen to work amongst TV's and some TS's and I recommend this book to all my customers as well as my friends. Congratulations Samantha on a fab book and an amazing life! Reviewer from London boudoir@btclick.com
Understanding and Representing Transgender Clients. Mechanicsburg, Pa, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 2004. For the legal professional, with an emphasis on Pennsylvannia law.
Undoing Gender
by Judith Butler Undoing Gender addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy. These essays revisit the problem of kinship in light of new challenges to the family form, interrogate the meaning and purposes of the incest taboo, and challenge the ways in which intersexuality and transsexuality are pathologized.
Unseen Genders: Beyond the Binaries Felicity Haynes, Tarquam McKenna, editors. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. Academics and activists explore the full range of gender expression.
Who's Really From Venus
* Wives, Partners & Others
edited by Jan and Diane Dixon
* Working with TS a guide for co workers
Wrapped in Blue: A Journey of Discovery.
by Donna Rose Living Legacy Press 2003 Wrapped In Blue is Donna Rose's deeply personal memoir of self-discovery. Hers is a coming-of-age story with an unusual twist. By exploring the thoughts and emotions of an every-day person facing a unique midlife dilemma, Donna forces herself to question even the most basic aspects of her life. This is the story of her courageous and difficult journey across the gender line in hopes of finding true peace and contentment.
For more information see http://www.donnarose.com/MyBook.html
