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BOOKS

ON TRANSGENDER ISSUES

• Bornstein, Kate. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. 253 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10: 0-679-75701-5.

• Bornstein, Kate. Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006. 231 pages. Paperback, ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-720-6.

• Califia, Pat. Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism. San Francisco: Cleis Press, Inc., 1997. 309 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-57344-072-8.

• Currah, Juang, & Minter (editors). Transgender Rights. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 379 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10: 0-8166-4312-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4312-7; Hardcover, ISBN-10: 0-8166-4311-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4311-0.

• Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity. Berkely, California: Seal Press, 2006. 354 pages. Paperback: ISBN-10: 1-58005-184-7, ISBN-13: 978-1-58005-184-2.

• Rudacille, Deborah. The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights. New York: Anchor Books, 2006. 382 pages; Paperback, ISBN-10: 0-385-72197-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-385-72197-4.

• Serano, Julia. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Emeryville, California: Seal Press, 2007. 390 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-58005-154-5, ISBN-13: 978-1-58005-154-5.

• Vanderburgh, Reid. Transition and Beyond: Observations on Gender Identity. Portland, Oregon: Q Press, 2007. 289 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10 1-893075-38-9.

MEMOIRS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

• Ames, Jonathan. Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs. New York: Vintage Books, 2005. 320 pages. Paperback: ISBN-10: 1-4000-3014-5.

• Boylan, Jennifer Finney. She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders. New York: Broadway Books, 2003. 300 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10: 0-7679-1429-5.

• Howey, Noelle. Dress Codes. New York: Picador, 2002. 337 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10 0-312-42220-2; Hardcover, ISBN-10: 0-312-26921-8.

• Jorgensen, Christine. Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography, with new (2000) introduction by Susan Stryker. San Francisco: Kleis Press, 2000. (First year of original edition: 1967.) 314 pages plus 9 pages (v-xiii) of the new introduction. Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-57344-100-7.

• Link, Raz Link & Raz, Hilda. What Becomes You, 2007. 300 pages. ISBN-10: 1-978-0-8032-1081-3.

• McCloskey, Deirdre N. Crossing: A Memoir. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1999. 272 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10: 0-226-55669-7; Hardback, ISBN: 0-226-55668-9.

• Morris, Jan. Conundrum, with new (2002) introduction by Jan Morris. New York: New York Review Books, 2002. (First year of original edition: 1974.) 174 pages plus 3 pages (vii-ix) of the new introduction. Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-59017-189-6.

• Scholinski, Daphne. The Last Time I Wore a Dress: A Memoir. New York: Riverhead Books, 1997. 211 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-57322-696-3.

TRANSGENDER HISTORY

• Feinberg, Leslie. Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. 218 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10: 0-8070-7941-3.

• Meyerowitz, Joanne. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002. 363 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10: 0-674-01379-4; Hardback, ISBN-10: 0-674-00925-8.

• Stryker, Susan. Transgender History Berkely, California: Seal Press, 2008. 197 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-58005-224-X, ISBN-13: 978-1-58005-224-5.

WEB SITES

• MSNBC 2/21/2011—"More Companies Covering Transgender Surgery: Advocates want corporate America to see sex reassignment as AMA does"

• "20th Century Transsexual History and Experience" by Kay Brown (I highly recommend this site. It deserves an award.)

• "Remembering the Dead" by Gwendolyn Ann Smith.

• "The Berdache Spirit" by Wendy Susan Parker.

• CarolRobson.co.uk--"Carol's Chronicle: Finding Me"--home page

• Lynn Conway's Home Page

• "A Gender Variance Who's Who"--home page

• Gender Identity Disorder (GID) Reform Advocates--Because Our Identities are Not Disordered.

• NOVA Online--"Sex Unknown"

• "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female are Not Enough" by Anne Fausto-Sterling

• Etransgender.com--"Transgender Revolution" by Dr. Robert T. Francoeur.

• Transgenderzone.com--home page

• "Transgender Coverage: The Next Frontier" by Douglas Russel

• Transgenderzone.com--"Transgender History" (A historical timeline of beginning at 1479 BC.)

• The International Foundation for Gender Eduction - "Transgender Tapestry" (The current front page of the online web journal.)

• Transgender Tapestry - "The Transgender Rights Movement in the 21st Century" (column)- from issue posted May 2, 2003. (Includes a timeline, 1910-2002.)

• Transsexual Women's Successes: Links and Photos by Lynn Conway

• Transsexual.org--"Transsexuality: What it is, How it exists, What to do about it, and even some thoughts about the Why of it too." by Jennifer Diane Reitz

• "Christine Beatty's Web Home"

• TransgenderCare.com

• "Vaginoplasty--Male to Female Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS): Historical notes, descriptions, photos, references and links." by Lynn Conway

• Wikipedia--"Transgender"

• Wikipedia--"Transsexualism"