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For Many Native Americans, Embracing LGBT Members Is a Return to the Past

By Katherine Davis-Young — 2019

The sound of drums, singing and prayers marked the opening of a powwow in Phoenix on a Saturday afternoon this month. . . . It was Arizona’s first Two-Spirit Powwow, one of a handful of powwows that have sprung up across North America to celebrate LGBT Native Americans.

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Transitioning Later in Life

This is my personal guide to help face who you are, accept who you are and love who you are, so you can watch your dreams and accomplishments flourish...If I can do it, you can do it too.

Jillian Celentano lived most of her life not accepting who she was.

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Jillian Celentano
2025
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This Is What It’s Like to Come Out as Trans in the Army

The U.S. military is entering a new era of open service for transgender troops. In January, President Biden reversed his predecessor’s ban on trans service members, and the Pentagon recently released a protocol for those who want to medically transition while serving.

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2021
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Before I Had the Words: On Being a Transgender Young Adult

Revealing entries from the author’s personal journals as well as interviews with his mother, brother, and friends lend remarkable depth to a groundbreaking memoir of change, loss, discovery, pain, and relief.

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Skylar Kergil
2025
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Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

Becoming a Man is a “moving narrative [that] illuminates the joy, courage, necessity, and risk-taking of gender transition” (Kirkus Reviews). For fifty years P.

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P. Carl
2021
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Why Are Many Doctors Scared of Transgender Patients? | Kristie Overstreet PhD | TEDxLivoniaCCLibrary

What if every time you went to the doctor you felt judged and your health needs were not addressed? This is the reality for many of the approximately 1.4 million transgender adults in the United States each year.

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2017
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Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events.

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Susan Stryker
2025
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Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children

Here is the first book to ever invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children of all ages to tell their own stories about their child’s gender transition. It offers a view that will educate everyone about the trans experience.

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Rachel Pepper
2012
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Where’s the Mother?: Stories from a Transgender Dad

In a time when to most people “pregnancy” automatically means “motherhood,” what is it like to get pregnant, give birth, and breastfeed a child all while being an out transgender man? When Trevor MacDonald decided to start a family, he knew that the world was going to have questions for him.

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Trevor MacDonald
2025
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Transgender Mom Hates Mother’s Day

For those of us who are transgender women, Mother’s Day can be problematic. Especially in the beginning of our transitions when we haven’t quite yet owned our womanhood.

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2017
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Mum or Dad? I Am a Transgender Parent

This documentary is about the life of a single transgender parent Kirsty Gilbert-Gold and her two children.

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2018
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