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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it has been experienced and represented in the modern period. Considering examples that range from the novels of George Eliot to the psychoanalytic practice of Sigmund Freud to marriage manuals by Marie Stopes, Lavery explores the skepticism found in such works about whether it is truly possible to change one's sex. This ambivalence, she argues, has contributed to both antitrans...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Hedwig and the Angry Inch, "the best rock musical ever" (Rolling Stone) follows the journey of "internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Schmidt, victim of a botched sex-change operation, as dazzlingly recounted by Hedwig (née Hansel) herself in the form of a lounge act, backed by the rockbound The Angry Inch, and transported to the Belasco Theatre "for one night only" and taking over the set for Hurt Locker: The Musical. This edition contains...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, in an era before real community or appropriate language was available to help her understand herself"--
How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it? Goetsch brings us into her childhood, her time as a dynamic and beloved teacher at New York City's Stuyvesant High School, and her plunge into the city's crossdressing subculture in the 1980s...
Author
Publisher
Regnery, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Reports on individuals who have undergone gender-affirming care, including puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and surgeries, and who have later sought to reverse these treatments, and in some cases have filed lawsuits regarding their experiences. This book uses in-depth interviews with "detransitioners" to argue that the actions of some in the medical profession and the transgender community amount to abuse and profiteering.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Miriam Grossman is a child and adolescent psychiatrist whose practice consists of trans-identified youth and their families. In Lost in Trans Nation, she implores parents to reject the advice of gender experts and politicians and trust their guts--their parental instincts--in the face of an onslaught of ideologically driven misinformation that steers them and their children toward risky decisions they may end up mourning for the rest of their...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When a single child comes out, their entire family will transition, along with their community. On The Couch With Dr. Angello is an eye-opening guide to navigating social spaces when most don't quite understand the process of changing genders. Dr. Angello offers emotional help and unwavering support as parents with trans-identified children ride the waves of grief, acceptance and eventual healing. After years of televised appearances this book comes...
Author
Series
Microcosm volume 626
Publisher
Microcosm Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This in-depth exploration of all aspects of physical transition is an accessible and supportive guide for trans men, transmasculine people, and nonbinary people. Drawing on their personal experience and extensive research, Sage Buch walks you through a wide array of safe transition options. Inside, you'll learn about non-medical interventions like chest binding and packing, explore the varieties and effects of hormone replacement therapy, and get...
8) Us
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
What happens when the life you thought you had does a 180º turn? Everything, and yet…nothing.
Us is Sara and Diana’s love story, as well as the story of Diana’s gender transition. Full of humor, heartache, and the everyday triumphs and struggles of identity, this graphic memoir speaks to changing conceptions of the world as well as the self, at the same time revealing that some things don’t really have...
Us is Sara and Diana’s love story, as well as the story of Diana’s gender transition. Full of humor, heartache, and the everyday triumphs and struggles of identity, this graphic memoir speaks to changing conceptions of the world as well as the self, at the same time revealing that some things don’t really have...
9) Transition
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An Australian war reporter and trans man gains unprecedented access to the Taliban, while keeping his identity secret. He embeds with the Taliban as they retake Afghanistan and faces moral and ethical dilemmas while beginning his gender affirming transition"--
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Harry Benjamin (1885-1986), a German-born endocrinologist, was an early pioneer in hormone therapy and transgender medicine. During his long career, he assisted many people in transitioning, including Christine Jorgensen, the 1950's 'Ex-GI' turned 'Blond Bombshell' media sensation. The two became close collaborators, with Jorgensen working with Benjamin on his influential book The Transsexual Phenomenon, published in 1966. Alison Li's much-needed...
Author
Publisher
Swift Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), based at the Tavistock and Portman Trust in North London, was set up initially to provide - for the most part - talking therapies to young people who were questioning their gender identity. But in the last decade GIDS has referred more than a thousand children, some as young as nine years old, for medication to block their puberty. In the same period, the number of referrals has exploded, increasing...
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
A personal guide on transitioning later in life, helping individuals to address the physical and social challenges involved throughout the process. Exploring issues such as coming out, dealing with discrimination, body dysphoria and finding your own style, it provides support to people at any stage of their journey.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zuiker Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"What do you do when you are born as one gender, but feel yourself to be another? Gender dysmorphia affects thousands of people worldwide, but has been ignored or ridiculed in our culture. With this graphic novel, Corey Maison boldly shares her story of transitioning, so that other kids with gender dysmorphia and related conditions will no longer feel so isolated, hopeless, or lost. Corey Maison was born a girl, trapped in a boy's body. Growing up,...
Author
Series
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life--one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who threatened his life and then released him in an odd moment of mercy. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of...
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A visionary, moving and one-of-a-kind anthology of writing on what it means to be trans today and every day. From the daily bite of anxiety as you go to leave the house, to the freedom found swimming in the wild, through to moments of queer rage and joy and the peculiar timeslip of reliving your adolescence, the stories in this collection reveal the untold lived realities of trans people to help inform, inspire and unite. Spanning a range of topics...
17) Firebugs
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Everything is changing-but everything is also exactly the same. Ingken can't ignore it: ice caps stained brown from forest fires, pipeline construction, drought... the whole world somehow persists despite the slow erosion of stability. After a trip to Paris, Ingken returns home ready for a break from drugs. Their supportive partner, Lily, is flushed, excited about a new connection she's made. Although Ingken wants to be happy for her, there's a discomfort...
Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kinkade wants what every other teenage boy wants: a girlfriend and a successful rock band but that's not as easy as it sounds. After a killer school talent show performance in full masculine presentation, trans boy Kinkade is quickly knocked back down to earth when his crush rejects him, and the whole school sees him in the dress his mother forced him to wear for a family photo. So, when the new girl Madi assumes he is cis and asks him out, he accepts...
Author
Publisher
Singing Dragon
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Based on the author's own personal experiences and those of her friends, this intimate and striking graphic novel follows transgender woman Lily, as she transitions to her true self. Depicting her experiences from coming out right through to gender reassignment surgery, Lily's story provides vital advice on the social, emotional and medical aspects of transitioning and will empower anyone questioning their gender.
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