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Gender Transition & gender identitybooks

Below are the best books we could find on Gender Transition and gender identity.

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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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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
2024
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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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Amateur: A Reckoning with Gender, Identity, and Masculinity

In this “refreshing and radical” (The Guardian) narrative, Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even means—through his experience training for and fighting in a charity boxing match at Madison Square Garden.

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Thomas Page McBee
2019
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Orlando: A Biography

“Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate sixteen-year-old nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colorful delights of Queen Elizabeth I’s court.

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Virginia Woolf
1973
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You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery

Are you wrestling with questions surrounding your gender that just don’t seem to go away? Do you want answers to questions about your gender identity, but aren’t sure how to get started? In this groundbreaking guide, Dara Hoffman-Fox, LPC—accomplished gender therapist and thought leader whose...

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Dara Hoffman-Fox
2017
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Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary

“This is where sex and gender collide, then ricochet like fragments of heart rending shrapnel. Rarely has a book about lust been full of so much love, conflict, and intelligence. If you think you already know what’s in these stories, or you think you don't need to know, you're wrong.

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Morty Diamond (editor)
2011
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How to Be a Girl: A Mother’s Memoir of Raising Her Transgender Daughter

Mama, something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as a boy instead of a girl. When Marlo Mack’s three-year-old utters these words, her world splits wide open.

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Marlo Mack
2024
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