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Transgender History, Third Edition: A Resource for Today's Struggle—and Tomorrow's

Author: Susan Stryker
Published: 3 Feb 2026
ISBN, Print: 9781541605886
ISBN, Digital: 9781541608405

"Through her explanation of central concepts and terms, informative sidebars, and brief biographies of trans pioneers, Stryker reminds readers of one crucial truth: Transgender people have always been here. In good times and bad, they’ve built supportive and expansive communities, battled for freedom, and transformed American culture and society in the process.
Now completely revised and updated, including a longer, global history and a timely chronicle of the latest wave of anti-trans backlash, Transgender History remains both a vital resource and a powerful testament to the enduring legacy of trans lives."

Genderqueer Menopause: Navigating Menopause for Trans, Gender-Nonconforming, Genderfluid, and Other Queer-Bodied Folx

Author: Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW
Published: 13 Jan 2026
ISBN, Print: 9798889842798
ISBN, Digital: 9798889842804

"Allen's perspective centers the genderqueer experience and the community's needs from an affirming frame. Genderqueer Menopause challenges conventional narratives surrounding menopause and guides readers through this life transition using practical resources and exercises."

🍁 Northern Blood: Period Politics and Activism in Canada

Editors: 🍁 Lisa Smith, Francesca Scala
Published: 6 Jan 2026
ISBN, Print: 9780228027225
ISBN, Digital: 9780228027249

"Groundbreaking in its exploration of period politics from a uniquely Canadian perspective, Northern Blood brings together lived experiences, stories, and teachings from the broader menstruation justice movement and sets them within the context of decolonization, multiculturalism, and gender equity. This powerful collection sheds light on the diversity of sites where period politics and activism take place – from universities to prisons to social and geographical communities. Individual chapters discuss how online spaces are used to challenge menstruation stigma; the role of student-led advocacy in menstrual activism; how menstruation activists mobilized for the removal of the gst from menstrual products in 2015; structural injustices in menstrual experiences and activism among Black people, Indigenous people, people of colour, transgender men, and nonbinary people; and the barriers that may prevent menstruators from choosing reusable products."

So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

Editor: Caro De Robertis
Published: 13 May 2025
ISBN, Print: 9781643756875
ISBN, Digital: 9781643756905

"So Many Stars knits together the voices of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer and two spirit elders of color as they share authentic, intimate accounts of how they created space for themselves and their communities in the world, how they pursued their passions, and how they continue to be at the vanguard of social change. This singular project collects the testimonies of over a dozen elders, each a glimmering thread in a luminous tapestry, preserving their words for future generations—who can more fully exist in the world today because of these very voices."

A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States: From Margins to Mainstream

Editors: Carolyn Wolf-Gould, Dallas Denny, Jamison Green, Kyan Lynch
Published: 1 Feb 2025
ISBN, Print: 9798855801217
ISBN, Digital: 9798855801231

"Sweeping in scope and deeply personal in nature, this groundbreaking volume traces the development of transgender medicine across three centuries—centering the voices of transgender individuals, debunking myths about gender-affirming care, and empowering readers to grasp the complexities of this evolving field. More than forty contributors—including patients, advocates, physicians, psychologists, and scholars—weave an illuminating, sometimes surprising narrative of collaboration and conflict between trans people and the scientists who have studied and worked with them."

The Queer Arab Glossary

Author: Marwan Kaabour
Published: June 2024
ISBN, Print: 9780863560927
ISBN, Digital: 9780863568701

"The Queer Arab Glossary is the first published collection of Arabic LGBTQ+ slang. This bold guide captures the lexicon of the queer Arab community in all its differences, quirks and felicities. Featuring fascinating facts and anecdotes, it contains more than 300 terms in both English and Arabic, ranging from the humorous to the harrowing, serious to tongue-in-cheek, pejorative to endearing. Here, leading queer Arab artists, academics, activists and writers offer insightful essays situating this groundbreaking glossary in a modern social and political context."

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life

Author: Regina Kunzel
Published: 1 April 2024
ISBN, Print: 9780226830193
ISBN, Digital: 9780226831848

"Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeths Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and gender-variant people in the mid- to late-twentieth-century United States. It examines psychiatrists’ investments in understanding homosexuality as a dire psychiatric condition, a judgment that garnered them tremendous power and authority at a time that historians have characterized as psychiatry’s “golden age.” That stigmatizing diagnosis made a deep and lasting impact, too, on queer people, shaping gay life and politics in indelible ways."

Who's Afraid of Gender?

Author: Judith Butler
Published: 19 March 2024
ISBN, Print: 9781802061062
ISBN, Digital: 9781802061079

"In this vital, courageous book, Butler carefully examines how "gender" has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and transexclusionary feminists. They illuminate the concrete ways that this phantasm displaces anxieties and fears of destruction. Operating in tandem with deceptive accounts of critical race theory and xenophobic panics about migration, the anti-gender movement demonizes struggles for equality, fuels aggressive nationalism, and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation."

💬 Qui a peur du genre?

Auteur: Judith Butler
Relais: Christophe Jaquet
Publié: 19 March 2024
ISBN, Numérique: 9782080455871

💬 "Pourquoi le genre est-il devenu un fantasme obsessionnel pour les régimes autoritaires, les partis fascistes et les féministes anti-trans? Que peut-on répondre à celles et ceux qui en font usage? Avec quels arguments? Mais les arguments suffisent-ils face à un fantasme? Intervention essentielle sur l'une des questions les plus épineuses de notre époque, cet ouvrage offre une déconstruction méticuleuse de toutes les controverses qu'elle abrite: la différence entre nature et culture, l'interaction entre sexe et genre, l'héritage colonial de la différence sexuelle, les relations entre féminismes et mouvement trans."

A Short History of Trans Misogyny

Author: Jules Gill-Peterson
Published: 30 Jan 2024
ISBN, Print: 9781804291566
ISBN, Digital: 9781804291627

"Why are trans women the most targeted of LGBT people? Why are they in the crosshairs of a resurgent anti-trans politics around the world? And what is to be done about it by activists, organizers, and allies?
A Short History of Transmisogyny is the first book-length study to answer these urgent but long overdue questions. Combining new historical analysis with political and activist accessibility, the book shows why it matters to understand trans misogyny as a specific form of violence with a documentable history. Ironically, it is through attending to the specificity of trans misogyny that trans women are no longer treated as inevitably tragic figures. They emerge instead as embattled but tenacious, locked in a struggle over the meaning and material stakes of gender, labor, race, and freedom."

💬 Une brève histoire de la transmisogynie: Pour une lecture anti-impérialiste de la transféminité

Auteur: Jules Gill-Peterson
Relais: Nesma Merhoum, Mihena Alsharif
Publié: 25 Avril 2025
ISBN, Numérique: 9782957749874

💬"Pourquoi les femmes trans sont-elles les plus ciblées au sein de la communauté LGBTQIA+? Pourquoi sont-elles au cour d'une résurgence mondiale de politiques réactionnaires transphobes ? Et comment pouvons-nous répondre collectivement à cette violence ? Cet ouvrage analyse les violences faites aux femmes trans en les inscrivant au cour de l'histoire de la modernité et des systèmes coloniaux occidentaux. Afin de prendre la mesure des violences transmisogynes à l'échelle mondiale tout en explorant la diversité des modes de vie marginalisés aujourd'hui regroupés sous l'étiquette "trans", l'autrice nous entraîne de New York à la Nouvelle-Orléans, de l'Inde britannique au Brésil, aux Philippines et à Hawai. A travers une approche matérialiste, l'historienne Jules Gill-Peterson propose le concept de transféminisation pour retracer les processus politiques par lesquels certaines formes de féminité, souvent racialisées, sont ciblées, notamment par les attaques de la droite et de l'extrême droite."

Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution

Author: 🍁 Alison Li
Published: 26 Sept 2023
ISBN, Print: 9781469674858
ISBN, Digital: 9781469674865

"Alison Li's much-needed biography of Benjamin chronicles his passion for hormones and his lifelong interest in sexology.
Drawing from extensive research in archival documents, secondary sources, and interviews, Li tells the story of Benjamin's early ventures in gerontology and his later work with over a thousand transgender patients. Benjamin's contributions to treatment, education, research, and networking helped to create the institutional foundations of transgender medicine."

Elder Abuse in the LGBTQ2SA+ Community: The Impact of Homophobia and Transphobia

Authors: Claire Robson, Jen Marchbank, Gloria Gutman, Makaela Prentice
Published: 6 June 2023
ISBN, Print: 9783031333194
ISBN, Digital: 9783031333170

"This book describes and analyzes the lived experience of elder abuse from the queer community. It discusses the experiences by transwomen, gay men and lesbians of financial abuse, physical and sexual abuse, homophobic abuse, and neglect within partner relationships, residential care, in home care, and religious organizations. Queer and trans elders have been described as ‘The Silent Generation’, since they have lived through times when their sexual and gender identities were criminalized and pathologized. The book shows that they are far more at risk to suffer abuse and neglect by those they should be able to trust, since they are more likely to have encountered all key risk factors, such as isolation, previous abuse and trauma, and mistrust of the health care system. Their vulnerability has been overlooked and this book addresses that gap. As such, this book provides a great resource to anyone working with elders, including medical professionals, care providers, police, counsellors, and policy makers."

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities (Second Edition)

Editor: Laura Erickson-Schroth
Published: 14 July 2022
ISBN, Print: 9780190092726
ISBN, Digital: 9780190092740

"Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is widely accessible to the transgender population, providing authoritative information in an inclusive and respectful way and representing the collective knowledge base of dozens of influential experts. Each chapter takes the reader through an important issue, such as race, religion, employment, medical and surgical transition, mental health, relationships, sexuality, parenthood, arts and culture, and many more."
"The content of the second edition of this award-winning resource will be thoroughly updated throughout and will include entirely new stories, artwork, and illustrations as well as dozens of new contributing authors and collaborators."

Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America

Author: Gregory D. Smithers
Published: 26 April 2022
ISBN, Print: 9780807003466
ISBN, Digital: 9780807003473

"Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America. It honors the generations of Indigenous people who had the foresight to take essential aspects of their cultural life and spiritual beliefs underground in order to save them.
Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people who identified as neither male nor female, but both. They went by aakíí’skassi, miati, okitcitakwe or one of hundreds of other tribally specific identities. After European colonizers invaded Indian Country, centuries of violence and systematic persecution followed, imperiling the existence of people who today call themselves Two-Spirits, an umbrella term denoting feminine and masculine qualities in one person.
Drawing on written sources, archaeological evidence, art, and oral storytelling, Reclaiming Two-Spirits spans the centuries from Spanish invasion to the present, tracing massacres and inquisitions and revealing how the authors of colonialism's written archives used language to both denigrate and erase Two-Spirit people from history. But as Gregory Smithers shows, the colonizers failed--and Indigenous resistance is core to this story. Reclaiming Two-Spirits amplifies their voices, reconnecting their history to Native nations in the 21st century."

Working with Autistic Transgender and Non-Binary People

Editor: Marianthi Kourti
Published: 21 Oct 2021
ISBN, Print: 9781787750227
ISBN, Digital: 9781787750234

"Setting out advice, research and personal reflections to inform professionals' daily practice and overall understanding of the lives and experiences of autistic transgender and non-binary people, this edited volume is an invaluable resource for anyone who seeks to engage more with autistic transgender, non-binary or gender-variant people."
"The collection is structured in three sections; the first provides interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches on autism and gender as well as the experiences of transgender and non-binary autistic people; the second features professionals discussing their work, the challenges they face and the solutions they find helpful; and the final section presents thoughts and perspectives from trans and non-binary autistic people on various aspects of their experiences, focusing on information that professionals will need to consider and discuss with the people they support."

Special Topics in Being a Human: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned the Hard Way about Caring for People, Including Myself

Author: 🍁 S. Bear Bergman
Published: 12 Oct 2021
ISBN, Print: 9781551528540
ISBN, Digital: 9781551528557

"Featuring disarming illustrations by Saul Freedman-Lawson, Special Topics in Being a Human elaborates on "Asking Bear"'s premise: a gentle, witty, and insightful book of practical advice for the modern age. It offers Dad advice and Jewish bubbe wisdom, all filtered through a queer lens, to help you navigate some of the complexities of life--from how to make big decisions or make a good apology, to how to get someone's new name and pronouns right as quickly as possible, to how to gracefully navigate a breakup. With warmth and candor, Special Topics in Being a Human calls out social inequities and injustices in traditional advice-giving, validates your feelings, asks a lot of questions, and tries to help you be your best possible self with kindness, compassion, and humor."

The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory & Transformative Justice Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

Editor: 🍁 Zena Sharman
Published: 5 Oct 2021
ISBN, Print: 9781551528601
ISBN, Digital: 9781551528618

"The Care We Dream Of offers possibilities—grounded in historical examples, present-day experiments, and dreams of the future—for more liberatory and transformative approaches to LGBTQ+ health and healing. It challenges readers to think differently about LGBTQ+ health and asks what it would look like if our health care were rooted in a commitment to the flourishing and liberation of all LGBTQ+ people."

The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

Author: Yenn Purkis, Wenn Lawson
Published: 18 March 2021
ISBN, Print: 9781787753914
ISBN, Digital: 9781787753921

"This essential survival guide gives autistic trans and/or non-binary adults all the tools and strategies they need to live as their very best self. Blending personal accounts with evidence-based insights and up-to-date information, and written from a perspective of empowerment and self-acceptance, the book promotes pride, strength and authenticity, covering topics including self-advocacy, mental health and camouflaging and masking as well as key moments in life such as coming out or transitioning socially and/or physically. Written by two leading autistic trans activists, this book honestly charts what life is like as an autistic trans person and is vital, life-affirming reading."

Growing Older as a Trans and/or Non-Binary Person: A Support Guide

Author: Jennie Kermode
Published: 18 Feb 2021
ISBN, Print: 9781787753631
ISBN, Digital: 9781787753648

"Drawing on the experiences of older trans people and those transitioning later in life, this is a definitive guide to ageing as a trans and/or non-binary person. It covers the key health concerns and social issues affecting older trans people, including care homes, pensions, inheritance and funeral planning, as well as hormone use and physical changes, isolation and dementia.
Kermode also provides guidance for professionals looking to better meet the needs of these individuals and highlights the important factors that need to be considered at an institutional level to provide the best care for people across the gender spectrum."

Cultural Awareness in Therapy with Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Adults and Older People: A Practical Guide

Author: Tavi Hawn, LCSW
Published: 19 March 2020
ISBN, Print: 9781785928383
ISBN, Digital: 9781785926648

"Practical advice for therapists and other professionals on developing culturally sensitive practices with trans clients regardless of race, ethnicity or religion, including older trans people. Includes case studies, tips, self-assessment checklists and further resources."

Improving Services for Transgender and Gender Variant Youth

Author: Tiffany Jones
Published: 21 Jan 2019
ISBN, Print: 9781785924255
ISBN, Digital: 9781784507893

"This expert guide to working with transgender and gender variant youth offers ways to make positive change to service provision for practitioners working with this group. Based on the latest research, the recommendations made by the author are backed up by statistics and data, and refer to first-hand stories and experiences.
Exploring four key areas - mental health, physical health, sexual health and social health - the book sets out exactly what professionals need to know in relation to these areas and how to support trans youth in these circumstances. Providing clarity on a range of topics, this is the perfect overview for practitioners, as well as a useful text for students and researchers. "

Histories of the Transgender Child, Third Edition

Author: Jules Gill-Peterson
Published: 23 Oct 2018
ISBN, Print: 9781517904678
ISBN, Digital: 9781452958156

"Until now, little has been known about early transgender history and life and its relevance to children. Using a wealth of archival research from hospitals and clinics, including incredible personal letters from children to doctors, as well as scientific and medical literature, this book reaches back to the first half of the twentieth century—a time when the category transgender was not available but surely existed, in the lives of children and parents."

To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults

Authors: Jess T. Dugan, Vanessa Fabbre, Karen Irvine
Published: 28 Aug 2018
ISBN, Print: 9783868288544

"Representations of older transgender people are nearly absent from our culture and those that do exist are often one-dimensional. For over five years, photographer Jess T. Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre traveled throughout the United States creating To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults. Seeking subjects whose lived experiences exist within the complex intersections of gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, socioeconomic class, and geographic location, they traveled from coast to coast, to big cities and small towns, documenting the life stories of this important but largely underrepresented group of older adults."
Note: Both hardcover editions of To Survive on This Shore are out of print. The companion website is still available: here.

The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

Editor: 🍁 Zena Sharman
Published: 1 Jan 2016
ISBN, Print: 9781551526584
ISBN, Digital: 9781551526591

"This anthology is a diverse collection of real-life stories from queer and trans people on their own health-care experiences and challenges, from gay men living with HIV who remember the systemic resistance to their health-care needs, to a lesbian couple dealing with the experience of cancer, to young trans people who struggle to find health-care providers who treat them with dignity and respect. The book also includes essays by health-care providers, activists and leaders with something to say about the challenges, politics, and opportunities surrounding LGBTQ health issues."

Finding Masculinity: Female to Male Transition in Adulthood

Editors: Alexander Walker, Emmett J.P. Lundberg
Published: 12 May 2015
ISBN, Print: 9781626011878
ISBN, Digital: 9781626011861

"Finding Masculinity is a collection of stories from a small cross section of the transgender male community that shares insight into the diversity of life experiences of transgender men, beyond the traditional narrative. This anthology examines the many facets of life that transition impacts; transitioning on the job, emotional and spiritual growth, family, navigating the medical community, as well as romantic relationships."

Gender Failure

Authors: 🍁 Ivan Coyote, 🍁 Rae Spoon
Published: 31 March 2014
ISBN, Print: 9781551525365
ISBN, Digital: 9781551525372

"Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted "gender failures." In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and assumptions around traditional gender roles fail us all."

For People, Not For Profit: A History of Fenway Health's First Forty Years

Author: Thomas Martorelli
Published: 8 June 2012
ISBN, Print: 9781477217009
ISBN, Digital: 9781477216996

"Thomas Martorelli's For People, Not for Profit tells the story of Fenway Health's growth from a small, volunteer-run walk-in clinic to an international leader into an international leader in care and research for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and people living with HIV/AIDS. It is also the story of the tremendous societal changes that drove and affected that growth. The community activism and volunteer collectives of the 1970s; the devastation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic which emerged in the 1980s; the LGBT civil rights movement that gained strength and momentum through the 1990s; and the advances in research and advocacy that have brought so many health care and civil rights victories in the 2000s - it's all there."

The Lives of Transgender People

Authors: Genny Beemyn, Susan Rankin
Published: 1 Nov 2011
ISBN, Print: 9780231143073
ISBN, Digital: 9780231512619

"Responding to a critical need for greater perspectives on transgender life in the United States, Genny Beemyn and Susan (Sue) Rankin apply their extensive expertise to a groundbreaking survey—one of the largest ever conducted in the U.S.—on gender development and identity-making among transsexual women, transsexual men, crossdressers, and genderqueer individuals. With nearly 3,500 participants, the survey is remarkably diverse, and with more than 400 follow-up interviews, the data offers limitless opportunities for research and interpretation."

Undoing Gender

Author: Judith Butler
Published: 1 Jan 2004
ISBN, Print: 9780415969239
ISBN, Digital: 9781135880750

"In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern and fail to govern gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory."