For the transsexuals/crossdressers: What books MUST your man/woman/both read?

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― adonis, Thursday, 11 March 2004 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Middlesex, for starters.

― otto, Thursday, 11 March 2004 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

For those transgendered (or those interested on the subject):

She's Not There: A Life in Two Gender by Jennifer Finney Boylan

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Read 'Gender Outlaw' by Kate Bornstein. Or maybe not, if, as a couple, your trying to be mainstream and blend in. Anyway, it's a good book.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Uhhhm, script for The Crying Game? Worn out 45 of the song optional.

― PuzzleMonkey (PuzzleMonkey), Thursday, 11 March 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

― Sara L (Tara Too), Friday, 12 March 2004 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Conondrum by Jan Morris. Who used to be James Morris, travel writer. He climbed mountains, raced arabians through the desert, and fathered four children. Then he became a woman.

― Clellie, Friday, 12 March 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Middlesex by Eugenides
Sacred Country by Rose Tremaine
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism by Pat Califia
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein, also her My Gender Workbook
Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary (a decent anthology)
Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg

I don't know that any of the above are must reads, but they're all of my shelves (along with quite a few more scholarly and dry books on the subject ... and some wonderful erotica, too).

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"She's Not There" -- Jennifer Boylan. A super book! Have any of you read this? What a girl!

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

The House Of Sleep by Jonathan Coe...

― andreabasini, Friday, 9 April 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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