Transgender Resources

A Sampling of Resources Available at

Resource Center of Dallas

2701 Reagan Street, Dallas, TX • 214-540-4451 library@rcdallas.org

BOOKS
Addams, Calpernia. Mark 947 : a life shaped by God, gender and force of will. HQ77.8 A33 M3 2003
Showtime’s A Soldier’s Girl was based on this memoir.
Benjamin, Harry. The Transsexual Phenomenon. HQ77.9 B4 T7 1966
Pioneering research from the 1960’s.
Bloom, Amy. Normal: Transsexual CEO’s Cross-Dressing Cops, Hermaphrodites HQ77.95 U6 B58 2002
with Attitude.
Essays that challenge common definitions of gender and sexuality.
Bockting, Walter. Transgender health and HIV prevention. RA643.83 B63 2005
Bornstein, Kate. Gender Outlaw: on Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. HQ77.9 B67 1994
Bornstein, Kate. My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real HQ1075 B69 1998
Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely.
Boylan, Jennifer. She's not there: a life in two genders. PS3552 O914 Z477 2003
Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Book.
Burke, Phyllis. Gender shock: exploding the myths of male and female. HQ1075 B85 1996
Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Book.
Feinberg, Leslie. Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue. HQ77.95 F45 T73 1998
Currah, Paisley and others. Transgender rights. HQ77.9 T716 2006
Current issues in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health. Edited by RA564.87 C87 2006
Jay Harcourt.
Several chapters on transgender health topics.
Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex. PS3555 U4 M53 2002
Pulitzer Prize winning novel that traces the life and family history of an intersex
teenager.
Gorman, Michael. The empress is a man: stories from the life of José Sarria. HQ77.1 S27 G67 1998
Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Book.
Green, Jamison. Becoming a visible man. HQ77.8 G35 G74 2004
Memoir with insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual
experience
Halberstam, Judith. Female masculinity. HQ75.5 H33 1998
Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Book
Howey, Noelle. Dress codes: of three girlhoods--my mother's, my father's, and HQ777.83 H68 2002
mine.
ALA Stonewall Honor Book Nonfiction and Lambda Literary Award Winner for
Transgender Book.
Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Transgender issues in the workplace. HD6285 U6 2004 REF
Jorgensen, Christine. Christine Jorgensen: a Personal Autobiography. HQ77.8 J67 C57 1968
Autobiography of a transgender pioneer.
Kailey, Matt. Just add hormones: an insider's guide to the transsexual experience. HQ77.8 K34 A3 2005
Meyerowitz, Joanne. How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality. HQ77.95 E85 M48 2002
ALA Stonewall Book Award for Non-fiction
Middlebrook, Diane. Suits Me: the double life of Billy Tipton ML417 T58 M53 1998
Out of the ordinary: essays on growing. up with gay, lesbian, and transgender HQ777.8 O87 2000
parents. Edited by Howey, Noelle & Samuels, Ellen
Lambda Literary Award Finalist Transgender Book.
Rose, Donna. Wrapped in blue: a journey of discovery. HQ77.8 R67 2003
Autobiography of transgender activist.
Roughgarden, Joan. Evolution's rainbow: diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature QH541.15 B56 R68 2004
and people.
ALA Stonewall Book Award for Non-fiction.
Stryker, Susan. Transgender history. HQ77.9 S77 T7 2008
Trans People in Love. Edited by Tracie O'Keefe and Katrina Fox HQ 77.9 O44 T73 2008
Velasco, Sherry. The lieutenant nun: transgenderism, lesbian desire & Catalina de PN57 E68 V45 2000
Erauso.
Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Book.
Wilchins, Riki Anne. Read my lips: sexual subversion and the end of gender. HQ77.8 W55 A3 1997
Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Book.
Williams, Walter. The spirit and the flesh: sexual diversity in American Indian E98 S48 W55 1992
culture.
ALA Stonewall Book Award for Non-fiction.

FILMS
Breakfast on Pluto. A transgender person leaves Ireland in hopes of a better life in London.
Boys Don’t Cry. In a fictionalized telling of the story of Brandon Teena, a young woman identifies as a man
in a small Nebraska town with tragic consequences. Academy Award Best Actress Hilary Swank.
Gendernauts. A look at the world of transgender identity.
Ma vie en rose = My life in pink. A six year old boy deals with rejection when he wishes to be a girl.
TransGeneration. Four American college students as they prepare for gender reassignment.
Understanding Transgender Issues. A training film for employers featuring transgender activist Donna Rose.

ONLINE RESOURCES
Human Rights Campaign. Coming Out as Transgender.
Brochure also available online at: www.hrc.org/documents/2071_HRC_Coming_Out.pdf
Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Transgender Americans: A Handbook for Understanding.
Brochure available online at: www.hrc.org/issues/transgender/1500.htm
National Center for Transgender Equality – www.nctequality.org
Social justice organization dedicated to advancing the equality of transgender people through advocacy,
collaboration and empowerment.
National Transgender Day of Remembrance - www.rememberingourdead.org/day
Resources for November 20, commemorating those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or
prejudice.
Transgender Law and Policy Institute - www.transgenderlaw.org
A non-profit organization dedicated to engaging in effective advocacy for transgender people in our
society.
Transcending Identities: A Bibliography of Resources on Transgender and Intersex Topics. By the GLBT
Roundtable of the American Library Association. http://isd.usc.edu/~trimmer/glbtrt/bibtransgender.pdf

This is a small sampling of books and resources in our collection.

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