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Transgender Studies: Literature in an Evolving Field (March 2022): Works Cited

By Robert Ridinger

Works Cited

Beck, Kristen, and Anne Speckhard. Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy SEAL’s Journey to Coming Out Transgender. Advances Press, 2013.

Benjamin, Harry. The Transsexual Phenomenon. Julian, 1966.

Bolin, Ann. In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage. Bergin & Garvey, 1988.

Bornstein, Kate. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. Routledge, 1994.

Collins, Mary, and Donald Collins. At the Broken Places: A Mother and Trans Son Pick up the Pieces. Beacon Press, 2017.

Cromwell, Jason. Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities. Illinois, 1999.

Cryden, Peggy, and Janet E. Goldstein-Ball. Straight Expectations: The Story of a Family in Transition. Jessica Kingsley, 2017.

Devor, Aaron. FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society. Indiana, 1997 (CH, Apr’98, 35-4816).

Docter, Richard F. From Man to Woman: The Transgender Journey of Virginia Prince. Docter Press, c2004.

Feinberg, Leslie. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Beacon Press, 1998.

____. Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman. Beacon Press, 1996 (CH, Nov’96, 34-1866). 

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Civil Rights: A Public Policy Agenda for Uniting a Divided America, ed. by Wallace Swan. CRC Press Taylor & Francis, 2015.

Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Public Policy Issues: A Citizen’s and Administrator’s Guide to the New Cultural Struggle, ed. by Wallace Swan. Harrington Park Press, 1997. 

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, ed. by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman. Seal Press, 2010.

Griggs, Claudine. Passage through Trinidad: Journal of a Surgical Sex Change. McFarland, 1996.

_____. S/he: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes. Berg, 1998. 

Haskell, Molly. My Brother My Sister: Story of a Transformation. Viking, 2013.

International Journal of Transgender Health. q. 2020–; first published in 1997 as International Journal of Transgenderism, q.

Ivester, Jo. Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey. She Writes Press, 2020.

Jenner, Caitlyn, with Buzz Bissinger.  The Secrets of My Life.  Grand Central Publishing, 2017.

Jorgenson, Christine. A Personal Autobiography. Paul S. Eriksson, 1967; reissued, Cleis Press, 2000.

Kaiser, Gigi [photographer]. Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Families, ed. by Peggy Gillespie. Massachusetts, 1999.

Kotula, Dean. The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals. Alyson Publications, 2002.

Link, Aaron Raz, and Hilda Raz. What Becomes You. Nebraska, 2007.

McCloskey, Deirdre. Crossing: A Memoir. Chicago, 1999 (CH, Apr’00, 37-4566); subsequently republished with the subtitle “A Transgender Memoir” and a new afterword.

Medsker, Julia, Coming to Life: One Mother’s Journey with Her Transgender Daughter. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.
Nutt, Amy Ellis. Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family. Random House, 2016.

Oliven, John. Sexual Hygiene and Pathology: A Manual for the Physician and the Professions. Lippincott, 2nd ed., 1965 (first edition, 1955).  

Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents, ed. by Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels. St. Martin’s Press, 2000. 

Pearlman, Sarah F. Mother-Talk: Conversations with Mothers of Lesbian Daughters and FTM Transgender Children. Demeter Press, 2012.

Rubin, Henry. Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment among Transsexual Men. Vanderbilt, 2003.

Sage Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, ed. by Abbie E. Goldberg and Genny Beemyn. Sage, 2021.

Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History, ed. by Gilbert Herdt. Zone Books, 1994.

Trans Forming Families: Real Stories about Transgendered Loved Ones ed. by Mary Boenke. PFLAG Transgender Network, 1999; 3rd ed., 2008.

Trans Homo … Gasp! Gay FTM and CIS Men on Sex and Love, ed. by Avi Ben-Zeev and Peter Bailey. Transgress Press, 2017.

Transgender Health. q. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2016–.  https://www.liebertpub.com/ 

The Transgender Studies Reader, ed. by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle. Routledge, 2006.

The Transgender Studies Reader 2, ed. by Susan Stryker and Aren A. Aizura. Routledge, 2013

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Duke, 2014–.

Virginia Prince: Pioneer of  Transgendering, ed by Richard Ekins and Dave King. Haworth Medical Press, 2005.

Whittington, Hillary, with Kristin Gasbarre. Raising Ryland: Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child with No Strings Attached. William Morrow, 2015.

Wilchins, Riki Anne.  Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer. Alyson Books, 2004.

____. Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender. Firebrand Books, 1997.

Internet Resources

American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. (AEGIS)
https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/

Digital Transgender Archive
https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/

FORGE
https://forge-forward.org/

FTM International
http://www.ftmi.org

Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) Collection
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=VAC9109

Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/

International Journal of Transgender Health (originally International Journal of Transgenderism)
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?target=titleSearch&SeriesKey=wijt21

The Kinsey Institute
https://iucat.iu.edu/kinsey

National Center for Transgender Equality
https://transequality.org/ 

National Transgender Library and Archive
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8tx3n8v/

Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People (originally Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders).
https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/SOC%20v7/SOC%20V7_English.pdf

Transgender Archives 
https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ 

Transgender Community of Police and Sheriffs (TCOPS)
https://tcops-international.org/

Transgender Law Center
https://transgenderlawcenter.org/

Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund
http://tLdef.org 

World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
https://www.wpath.org/