Transgender Topics
By: Nicholas M. Teich
Introducing transgenderism and its psychological, physical, and social processes. This book covers the characteristics of Gender Dysphoria, the development of the transgender movement, how transgender individuals handle their gender identity, how others view it, and how the transitioning of genders is made possible.
By: Mary Boenke (Author, Editor), Delores Dudley (Illustrator), Lori Bowden (Illustrator)
A collection of positive short stories by parents, families, and friends of transgender people who have come to accept and embrace their transgender loved ones. These are invaluable stories intended to help those struggling with misinformation, pain, anger, and fear for their loved ones.
By: Janet Mock
Author Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population.
By: Rachel Pepper (Editor)
Often “transitioning” socially and emotionally alongside their child but rarely given a voice in the experience, this book is about mothers sharing stories of love, struggle, and acceptance. This collection represents a diversity of backgrounds and sexual orientations, affirms the experience of those who have raised and are currently raising transgender and gender variant children from the ages of 5-50.
By: Jennifer Finney Boylan
The memoir of a man named James who became a woman named Jenny. She’s Not There is the true story of a person changing genders, the story of a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret; above all, it is a love story.
By: Jamison Green
Written by a leading activist in the transgender movement, this book is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. The author speaks consciously of universal principles that concern us all, particularly the need to live one’s life honestly, openly, and passionately.
By: Chloe Ann Rounsley and Mildred L. Brown
This book, using real-life stories, actual letters, and other compelling examples, details the conflicts transsexuals face on a daily basis—and the courage they must summon as they struggle to reveal their true being to themselves and others.
By: Jenson J. Hillenbrand
A great resource to help readers understand transgender transformation and what it involves. Aimed at children between the ages of 9 and 12, parents can use it as a resource to explain the subject to their children, as well as prepare themselves to answer the many questions children will likely have.
By: Stephanie Brill & Rachel Pepper
This comprehensive guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their transgender or gender varient children. The authors answer questions about gender variance from birth through college.
By: Stephanie Brill & Lisa Kenney
This guidebook helps to explore the unique challenges that families face every day raising a teenager who may be transgender, non-binary, gender-fluid or otherwise gender-expansive. The authors cover concerns relating to physical/emotional development, social and school pressures, medical considerations, and family communications.
By: Bruce Edlen
Jazz Mergirl is the compelling true story of a transgender girl born in a boy’s body. It tells how Jazz Jennings and her family navigate the challenging road of her transition into the bright and beautiful teen she is today.
By: Jeffrey Eugenides Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this novel tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal.
By: Garrard Conley
When Garrard Conley was 19, he was outed to his family. Given the choice to either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to “cure” him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and God, Boy Erased tells the story of a minister's son trapped between religion and his sexual identity.
By: Alexander Walker and Emmett Jack Lundberg (Editors)
This 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. This anthology examines transitioning on the job, emotional and spiritual growth, family, navigating the medical community, as well as romantic relationships.
By: Andrew T. Walker
This warm, faithful and careful book helps Christians understand what the Bible says about gender identity. It will help us to engage lovingly, thoughtfully and faithfully with one of the most explosive cultural discussions of our day.
By: Laurie Frankel
Claude is five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They’re just not sure they’re ready to share that with the world.
By: Laura Erickson-Schroth
A comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, each chapter is written by transgender or genderqueer authors. Each chapter addresses important transgender issues, such as race, religion, employment, medical and surgical transition, mental health topics, relationships, sexuality, parenthood, arts and culture, and many more.
By: Amy Ellis Nutt
When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. By the time the twins were toddlers, Wyatt insisted that he was female. In the years that followed, the Maineses came to question their long-held views on gender and identity, and to accept Wyatt's transition to Nicole. Based on inspiring true story of transgender actor/activist Nicole Maines, who is also first transgender superhero on CW's Supergirl!
By: Irwin Krieger
If you are the parent of a transgender teen, this book will help you understand what your child is feeling and experiencing.
By: Ami Polonsky
Grayson Sender has been holding onto a secret for what seems like forever: "he" is a girl on the inside, stuck in the wrong gender's body. Sharing this would mean facing ridicule, scorn, rejection, or worse. Follow Grayson's journey as her true self itches to break free.
By: Susan Kuklin
Author Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults; each honest discussion and disclosure, whether joyful or heartbreaking, is completely different from the other because of family dynamics, living situations, gender, and the transition these teens make in recognition of their true selves.
By: Joanne Herman
Joanne Herman affirmed her true gender in her late 40's and her book serves as a way to quickly get up to speed on what it means to be transgender.
By: Michele Angello
When a single child comes out, their entire family will transition, along with their community. Dr. Angello offers emotional help and unwavering support as parents with trans identified children ride the waves of grief, acceptance and eventual healing.
By: Jennifer L. Levi & Elizabeth E. Monnin-Browder (Editors) The first book to comprehensively address legal issues facing transgender people in the family law context, Transgender Family Law: A Guide to Effective Advocacy is written by attorneys with expertise in both family law and advocacy for transgender clients.
by: Jackson Bird
When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection. Assigned female at birth and having been raised a girl, he often wondered if he should have been born a boy. Today, Jackson is a writer, YouTuber, and LGBTQ+ advocate living openly and happily as a transgender man. So how did he get here? In his memoir Jackson chronicles the ups and downs of growing up gender confused.
by: Davey Shlasko
This book is a thorough guide that will help you transform your good intentions into respectful action. It includes fun and meaningful exercises to shift your unconscious habits so that you can consistently and easily call people the pronouns they want to be called and gain insight into how you think about gender.
A PDF posted on PFLAG's webpage that guides you through how to be an ally for the transgender community.