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Here are some good books for learning more about transgender people and issues. This is, of course, an incomplete list.

Biography/Memoir

• Wrapped in Blue: A Journey of Discovery by Donna Rose
• She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
• Crossing: A Memoir by Deirdre N. McCloskey
• Becoming a Visible Man by Jameson Green
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
• Branded T by Rosalyne Blumenstein
• Mark 947: A Life Shaped by God, Gender and Force of Will by Calpernia Sarah Addams
• Both Sides Now: One Man's Journey Through Womanhood by Dhillon Khosla
• The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male by Max Wolf Valerio
• My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser by Helen Boyd
• She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband by Helen Boyd
• Alice in Genderland: A Crossdresser Comes of Age by Richard J. Novic M.D.
• Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods—My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Noelle Howey
• Second Serve by Renee Richards
• Conundrum by Jan Morris
• Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography by Christine Jorgensen

Educational

• True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism by Mildred L. Brown and Chloe Ann Roundsley
• Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families by Arlene Istar Lev
• Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience by Matt Kailey
• The Lazy Crossdresser by Charles Anders

Gender/Queer Theory

• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
• My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely by Kate Bornstein
• Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism by Patrick Califia-Rice
• Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity by Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Editor)
• Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg
• Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary by Joan Nestle (Editor), Riki Wilchins (Editor), and Clare Howell (Editor)
• Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer by Riki Wilchins
• Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender by Riki Wilchins
• The Transgender Reader by Susan Stryker (Editor) and Stephen Whittle (Editor)
• Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling
• Undoing Gender by Judith Butler
• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
• Second Skins by Jay Prosser

Transgender History

• Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg
• How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz

Intersex

• As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
• Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex by Alice Domurat Dreger
• Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self by Sharon E. Preves
• Lessons from the Intersexed by Suzanne J. Kessler

Fiction

• Tran-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
• Luna By Julie Anne Peters

Anthropological

• Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives by Sabrina Ramet
• Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native America by Will Roscoe
• The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe

Other Published Resources

• Current Transgender Bestsellers on Amazon.com
• IFGE Sychronicity Bookstore on IFGE.org
• Books Page of the Intersex Society of North America on ISNA.org
• Published Resources on Transsexual Road Map
• Magazines and other Publications on Susan's Place

To Be Classified/Work-in-Progress

• Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam
• In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives by Judith Halberstam
• Girlfriend: Men, Women, and Drag by Holly Brubach
• Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History by Gilbert Herdt (Editor)
• Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities by Jason Cromwell
• The Woman I Was Not Born to Be: A Transsexual Journey by Aleshia Brevard
• The Gender Frontier by Marriete Pathy Allen and Grady T. Turner
• Confessions of a Gender Defender: A Psychologist's Reflections on Life Among the Transgendered by Randi Ettner
• In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage by Anne Bolin
• Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Loren Cameron (Photographer)
• Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits of Duality by Holly Devor
• Gender Blending: Transvestism (Cross-Dressing), Gender Heresy, Androgyny, Religion & the Cross-Dresser, Transgender Healthcare, Free Expression, Sex Change Surgery by Bonnie Bullough (Editor)
• From The Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond by Morty Diamond (Editor)
• I Am My Own Wife: A Play by Doug Wright
• I Am My Own Wife: The True Story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf by Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf
• Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones, 2nd Edition by Mary Boenke (Foreword), Arlene Istar Lev (Foreword), and Jessica Xavier (Introduction)
• Gender Shock: Exploding The Myths Of Male And Female by Phyllis Burke
• FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals In Society by Holly Devor
• The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinski
• Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them by Marriete Pathy Allen
• My Husband Wears My Clothes: Crossdressing from the Perspective of a Wife by Peggy Ed.D Ruud
• The Man in the Red Velvet Dress: Inside the World of Cross-Dressing by J.J. Allen
• HBIGDA Standards of Care, available online at www.hbigda.org

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