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• Black on Both Sides

  a Racial History of Trans Identity

  Snorton, C. Riley

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  Much of what you’ll see in the press covers transgender history and culture from a distinctly western and white viewpoint and, while not inherently bad, this doesn’t give a complete story of transgender experience. Enter Black on Both…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gender Outlaw

  on Men, Women, and the Rest of Us

  Bornstein, Kate, 1948-

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  This book is widely considered to be an early “road map” for transgender activism and visibility

• Histories of the Transgender Child

  Gill-Peterson, Jules

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  This Lambda award-winning book shatters the myth that today's transgender children are a brand new generation by uncovering a previously unknown twentieth-century history.

• I'm Afraid of Men

  Shraya, Vivek, 1981-

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  "This is an emotional and sometimes painful read on a trans woman’s history with men and masculinity. It’s also darkly funny and very accessible and I want to make every anti-trans feminist read it, because the way Shraya perceives gender…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Transgender History

  the Roots of Today's Revolution

  Stryker, Susan

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  Written by the director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona, this updated edition charts a history of transgender people in the United States from the end World War II to the 2000s.

• Trans Bodies, Trans Selves

  a Resource for the Transgender Community

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  This tome runs the gamut of transgender needs from transition to trans activism.

• Trans Like Me

  Conversations for All of Us

  Lester, C. N.

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  In this brilliant essay collection, C. N. Lester offers perspective and clarity on issues that are stumbling blocks to trans acceptance and celebration of human gender diversity, such as the conflation of sex and gender in everyday forms…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Transgender Warriors

  Making History From Joan of Arc to RuPaul

  Feinberg, Leslie, 1949-2014

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  Written at a time when transgender history was scarcely considered, this book can bring a depth of perspective to those who might see transgender history as only being a decade or so long.

• Whipping Girl

  a Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

  Serano, Julia

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  A groundbreaking work that brought voice to transwomen and their issues.