Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and its unique experiences of discrimination. Chapters introduce transgenderism and its psychological, physical, and social processes. They describe the coming out process and its effect on family and friends, the relationship between sexual orientation, and gender and the differences betw...

Talented narrator John Malone does justice to this interesting, highly listenable, and engaging introduction to transgender issues.Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and its unique experiences of discrimination. Chapters introduce transgenderism and its psychological, physical, and social processes. They describe th...

Growing up transgender is difficult. In the 1960s no one talks about people who want to be a different gender. Jill tries to make sense of her self, her family, and the events swirling around her. Friends pull her to a degree of happiness and sanity, into peer helping and then psychology. As a man, she falls in love and develops a career as a school psychologist. She appears a successful man, until near death experiences remind her of what is important, and she embarks, at age 50, to becom...

When your beautiful son comes to you and says he has had feelings of suicide, your heart skips a beat. You do whatever it takes to get him help. When your beautiful son comes to you and says he wants to become a woman, your world is suddenly turned upside down. A million thoughts invade your mind. Fear becomes your constant companion, and tears swell up inside you every time you think of what could be waiting ahead. You cant help feeling pride in your child for showing the kind of courage ...

This book is the result of countless hours of research and life experience in the transgender community. The articles are designed to help, inform and stimulate conversations on the subject of transgender people. Often marginalized and misunderstood, transgender people struggle on a daily basis with discrimination and harassment from the general population. It is my firm hope that this book helps give you some of the tools to deal with some of the aspects of transitioning and being a trans...

At times in the course of human existence there arises a curiosity. A reality which defies a rational explanation. A bend in the 'norm'. Some may look at this as an aberrant mutation, too unique to be taken seriously.Prepare to enter a gentle twilight zone between the gender norms, a very strange tale indeed.

What he did to her was unspeakable; what they did to him/her was even worse. A man's fiancee is raped. The man captures the rapist, and uses hormone therapy to turn the rapist into a shemale. Unspeakable things happen.

"There are plenty of stories about how transvestite and transgender women come out to friends and loved ones. Some go well and some, well … you can imagine, some dont always work out as planned. A lot of our work with trans people has been to help them express their identity to the world. Often this includes expressing who they are to friends and loved ones. Weve identified all the key steps that lead to a successful coming out and distilled them into this concise little ebook."

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The seminal work of trans literature: a story of love, sex, selfhood, and understanding from the renowned author of Cleavage and co-author of Mad Honey“A very funny memoir of growing up confused and a very smart consideration of what it means to be a woman.”—Anna QuindlenWhen she changed genders, she changed the world. It was the groundbreaking publication of She’s Not There in 2003 that jump...

This groundbreaking and inspiring collection of dozens of our most original trans voices is an essential exploration of gender today“Smart, sexy, and entertaining.” —Jack HalberstamTransgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again, and today’s trans and nonbinary people, genderqueers, and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being.Edited by the original gender ...

ANDY TO AMELIE:  A saga of gender transformation in three-parts: 1. Andy, a bullied kid for most of his 18 years, is an accidental witness to a gang killing in the mean streets of his neighborhood in Capitol City. Spotted by the shooters, he escapes by the skin of his teeth when he finds an open basement window in a dark alley. There he meets the tall and elegant actress, Stella, who devises a way for him to escape the area and take him home with her. Facing the dilemma of b...

A son of Chinese immigrants discovers his true self in a "sharply written debut . . . a coming-of-age tale for our time" ( Seattle Times).Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, Winner2015 PEN/ Hemingway Award, FinalistLambda Literary Award, FinalistLonglisted for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel PrizeA Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection for Spring 2014A New York Times Book Review E...