# List of transgender publications

This list of transgender publications includes books, magazines, and academic journals about transgender people, culture, and thought.

## Books

Some publishers of transgender-related books include Trans-Genre Press, Topside Press, and Transgress Press.

### Non-fiction

| Work | Year | Author | Notes |
| Transidentity | 2022 | Hans-Werner Gessmann/Vishal Lohchab | ISBN 978-3-928524-82-7 |
| ACT For Gender Identity: The Comprehensive Guide | 2020 | Alex Stitt | ISBN 978-1785927997 |
| Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us | 1994 | Kate Bornstein | ISBN 0-679-75701-5 |
| Mom, I Need to be a Girl | 1998 | Just Evelyn | Memoir from the point of view of the mother. ISBN 0-9663272-0-9 |
| X Marks The Spot: An Anthology Of Nonbinary Experiences | 2019 | Theo Hendrie (editor) | Essays and poetry from nonbinary people for nonbinary people. ISBN 1-0809680-3-2 |
| Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law | 2011 | Dean Spade | Nominated for a 2011 Lambda Literary Award. ISBN 0-89608-796-4 |
| Raising Ryland | 2015 | Hillary Whittington | ISBN 978-0-06-23888-96 |
| Redefining Realness | 2014 | Janet Mock | Memoir ISBN 978-1476709123 |
| Third Sex and Human Rights | 1999 | Rajesh Talwar | ISBN 81-212-0642-1 |
| Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue | 1999 | Leslie Feinberg | ISBN 0-8070-7951-0 |
| Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature | 2021 | Douglas A. Vakoch (editor) | ISBN 9780367086510 |
| Transgender History | 2008 | Susan Stryker | ISBN 978-1-58005-224-5 |
| Transgender India: Understanding Third Gender Identities and Experiences | 2022 | Douglas A. Vakoch (editor) | ISBN 978-3-030-96385-9 |
| Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come | 1992 | Leslie Feinberg | ISBN 0-89567-105-0 |
| Transgender Rights | 2006 | Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Minter (editors) | ISBN 0-8166-4311-3 |
| Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman | 1996 | Leslie Feinberg | ISBN 0-8070-7941-3 |
| The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story | 2009 | Transgender A. Revathi | First book on Hijra by a Hijra. ISBN 978-81-8475-271-7 |
| When Kayla Was Kyle | 2013 | Amy Fabrikant | ISBN 978-1-61286-154-8 |
| Lou Sullivan: Daring to be a Man Among Men | 2017 | Brice Smith | ISBN 978-0-99825-211-7 |
| Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman | 2019 | Abby Stein | First book by Hasidic trans person. ISBN 978-1-58005-916-9 |
| Amateur | 2018 | Thomas Page McBee | ISBN 9781501168741 |
| Man Alive | 2014 | Thomas Page McBee | ISBN 9780872866249 |
| Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis | 2022 | Grace Elisabeth Lavery | ISBN 9781541620650 |
| The Last Time I Wore a Dress | 1997 | Dylan Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams | 1998 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 978-1573220774 |
| The Empress Is a Man | 1998 | Michael R. Gorman | 1999 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 9781560239178 |
| Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach | 2001 | Virginia Ramey Mollenkott | 2002 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 9780829814224 |
| Dress Codes | 2002 | Noelle Howey | Memoir 2003 Lambda Literary Winner Award ISBN 9780312422202 |
| The Gender Frontier | 2004 | Mariette Pathy Allen | 2005 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 9783936636048 |
| The Transgender Studies Reader | 2006 | Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle (editors) | 2007 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 9780415947091 |
| Transparent | 2007 | Cris Beam | 2008 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 9780156033770 |
| Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show | 2009 | Lynn Breedlove | 2012 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 9781933149325 |
| Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community | 2010 | Noach Dzmura (editor) | 2011 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 9781556438134 |
| Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels | 2012 | Justin Vivian Bond | Memoir. 2013 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 9781558617476 |
| Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies | 2012 | Anne Enke (editor) | 2013 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 9781439907474 |

### Fiction and poetry

| Work | Year | Author | Genre | Description and ISBN |
| 10,000 Dresses | 2008 | Marcus Ewert | Young adult/Children's | Picture book about a young transgender girl named Bailey whose family does not agree with her desire to wear dresses. ISBN 1-58322-850-0 |
| An Anglo-American Alliance | 1906 | Gregory Casparian | Science fiction novel | |
| The Adventures of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy | 2012 | S. Bear Bergman and Suzy Malik | Young adult/Children's | Title character Tulip receives a birthday wish from a child known as David who wishes to live as Daniela, and learns how to help and respect a gender-independent young person. 2013 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. ISBN 978-0-9879763-0-7 |
| Almost Perfect | 2009 | Brian Katcher | Young adult/Children's | Story of an adolescent transgender girl named Sage Hendrix who moves to a new high school in Missouri. 2011 Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association. |
| Beatrice the Sixteenth | 1909 | Irene Clyde | Utopian/science fiction novel | A time traveller discovers a lost world, which contains a postgender society. |
| Beautiful Music for Ugly Children | 2012 | Kirstin Cronn-Mills | Young adult/Children's | Despite bullying from his classmates and a lack of acknowledgement from his family, music geek Gabe (born Elizabeth) is transitioning, and just wants to make it through his nearing graduation. Stonewall Book Award winner and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. |
| Being Emily | 2012 | Rachel Gold | Young adult/Children's | Emily (born Christopher) begins to come out as transgender during her junior year of high school. |
| Breakfast on Pluto | 1998 | Patrick McCabe | Fiction | Patrick "Pussy" Braden is an Irish trans woman who escapes from the fictional Irish town of Tyreelin and a drunk foster mother, to find herself and the biological mother who gave her away. Booker Prize shortlist. |
| The Butterfly and the Flame | 2005 | Dana De Young | Fiction | |
| Blond(e) Boy, Red Lipstick | 2018 | Geoff Bunn | Fiction | A cis man revisits a love affair he had in the 1980s with a transfeminine boy. |
| Body Alchemy | 1996 | Loren Cameron | Fiction | 1997 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 978-1-57344-062-2 |
| Bye-Bye, Black Sheep: A Mommy-track Mystery | 2006 | Ayelet Waldman | Mystery | Part of a series featuring Juliet Appelbaum, a stay-at-home mom and former public defender. In this installment, Appelbaum is approached by Heavenly, a transsexual woman who asks her to investigate the murder of her sister, Violetta, a prostitute and drug addict. ISBN 0-425-21018-9 |
| Choir Boy | 2005 | Charlie Jane Anders | Young adult/Children's | A coming of age story of twelve-year-old Berry, a boy who seeks out antiandrogens in order to suppress his testosterone and prevent voice change from affecting his ability to sing in the choir. The novel won the Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender/Genderqueer category. ISBN 1-932360-81-6 |
| Cereus Blooms at Night: A Novel | 1999 | Shani Mootoo | Fiction | A multi-narrative novel set in a fictional island in the Caribbean. An ambiguously gendered, but often presumed male, nurse named Tyler tells the troubled family history of Mala Ramchandin, an elderly woman under her care at a nursing home. Ze also relates the story of the transgender man named Otoh, who becomes Tyler's boyfriend. Shani Mootoo's novel explores identity, gender and community. ISBN 978-0-380-73199-2 |
| The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard | 2012 | Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod (editors) | Fiction | ISBN 0-9832422-0-8 |
| The Danish Girl | 2000 | David Ebershoff | Fiction | A fictionalized account of the life of Lili Elbe, the first person to undergo sex reassignment surgery. ISBN 978-0-14-310839-9 |
| Detransition, Baby | 2021 | Torrey Peters | Fiction | ISBN 978-0-593-13337-8 |
| Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta | 2022 | James Hannaham | Fiction | A trans woman returns home after spending 22 years in a men's prison. ISBN 978-1-78770-421-3 |
| Freakboy | 2013 | Kristin Elizabeth Clark | Young adult/Children's | ISBN 0-374-32472-7 |
| The Gender Fairy | 2015 | Jo Hirst | Children's picture book | ISBN 9780994457004 |
| Holding Still for as Long as Possible | 2009 | Zoe Whittall | Fiction | Josh is a trans man with a girlfriend, Amy. 2011 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 9781770898073 |
| I Am J | 2011 | Cris Beam | Fiction | ISBN 0-316-05361-9 |
| I Am Jazz | 2014 | Jazz Jennings & Jessica Herthel | Young adult/Children's | ISBN 0-8037-4107-3 |
| Just Girls | 2014 | Rachel Gold | Young adult/Children's | ISBN 1-59493-419-3 |
| Kafka on the Shore | 2002 | Haruki Murakami | General | Features a gay, transgender man named Oshima who is friends with the main character. ISBN 1-84343-110-6 |
| Luna | 2004 | Julie Anne Peters | Young adult/Children's | Story of Luna O'Neill (born Liam), a young male-to-female transsexual. Lambda Literary Award finalist in the Children's/Young Adult category. ISBN 0-316-73369-5 |
| Maxine Wore Black | 2014 | Nora Olsen | Fiction | |
| An Unexpected Turn | 2021 | Brianna Nicole Austin | Fiction | A coming-of-age male-to-female story about a 12-year-old boy that gets caught by his mother cross-dressing. Her desperate attempt to hide the secret from her friends sets off in motion a series of events that will change their lives forever. Sometimes humorous and light, the novela delves into being a transgender girl from the perspective of both the young boy, Stephanie, his mother, and Dr. Dorothy, Stephanie's best friend, |
| Mezcalero | 2015 2017 | T.E. Wilson | Fiction | First novel in the Detective Sánchez series, featuring the Mexican-Canadian transgender protagonist Ernesto Sánchez |
| My Princess Boy | 2009 | Cheryl Kilodavis and Suzanne DeSimone | Young adult/Children's | Picture book about the author's son Dyson, whose self-expression does not conform to stereotypical gender role as Dyson prefers clothing meant for girls. |
| Myra Breckinridge | 1968 | Gore Vidal | Fiction | Myra is a beautiful young woman with a secret agenda — and a secret past as a man named Myron. |
| Nevada: A Novel | 2013 | Imogen Binnie | Fiction | Punk New York City trans woman Maria Griffith goes on a road trip to Nevada while reflecting on gender and queer politics. 2014 Lambda Literary Award finalist. ISBN 0-9832422-9-1 |
| Orlando: A Biography | 1928 | Virginia Woolf | Fiction | Story of Orlando, an individual assigned male at birth who was born in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. Orlando lives for more than 300 years and, at around 30 years of age, mysteriously changes sex to female. |
| Parrotfish | 2011 | Ellen Wittlinger | Young adult/Children's | Coming out story of a transgender teenage boy named Grady; the title refers to the fact that parrotfish can change their gender. |
| Roving Pack | 2012 | Sassafrass Lowrey | Young adult/Children's | Story of a group of independent youths in the Portland, Oregon area trying to find their way. |
| Run, Clarissa, Run | 2012 | Rachel Eliason | Fiction | |
| A Safe Girl to Love | 2014 | Casey Plett | Fiction | |
| Sacred Country | 1992 | Rose Tremain | Fiction | A novel about Mary Ward, who at the age of six decides she should have been born a boy. The novel concerns her struggle in a small town in England. ISBN 1-85619-118-4 |
| She's Not There | 2003 | Jennifer Finney Boylan | Fiction | 2004 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 9780385346979 |
| Stone Butch Blues | 1993 | Leslie Feinberg | Fiction | Butch Jess Goldberg grows up in the pre-Stonewall era. Won the Lambda Literary Award and the 1994 American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Award. ISBN 1-56341-030-3 |
| The Ice Princess | 2011 | Emmy Morgan | Fiction | Black trans woman struggles through her past to become a daytime soap opera star. This is the first book in a trilogy. |
| The Ship We Built | 2020 | Lexie Bean | Middle grade/Children's | 10-year-old trans boy Rowan doesn't have the words yet to describe how he feels. He doesn't fit in with the boys or the girls, he faces sexual abuse from his father, and his mother ignores him. He finds an outlet in writing letters and attaching them to balloons. Deals with gender, coming of age, bullying, abuse, and racism. |
| Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica | 2011 | Tristan Taormino (editor) | Fiction | 2012 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 9781573447201 |
| Trans-Sister Radio | 2000 | Chris Bohjalian | Fiction | |
| Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics | 2013 | T.C. Tolbert & Trace Peterson (editors) | Poetry | ISBN 1-937658-10-4 |
| Trumpet | 1999 | Jackie Kay | Fiction | 2000 Lambda Literary Award Winner ISBN 9780375704635 |
| Wild Dogs of Mexico | 2018 | T.E. Wilson | Fiction | Second novel in the Detective Sánchez series, featuring the Mexican-Canadian transgender protagonist Ernesto Sánchez |

## Magazines and periodicals

| Title | Editor(s) | Publisher | First published | Ceased publication | Frequency | ISSN | Notes |
| Chrysalis: The journal of transgressive gender identities | | American Educational Gender Information Service | 1991 | 1998 | Quarterly | ISSN 1086-4873 | |
| FTM Magazine | Jason Robert Ballard | | 2014 | - | Quarterly | ISSN 2377-7737 | "The GQ for Trans Men" |
| Frock Magazine | Katie Glover, Sally Bend | The Gender Society | 2009 | 2017 | Bi-monthly | | Magazine containing "transgender-related articles, features and stories which will be of interest to transsexuals, crossdressers, drag queens and transvestites and intersexed people" |
| Original Plumbing | Amos Mac, Rocco Kayiatos | | 2009 | | Quarterly | ISSN 2153-6341 | "Dedicated to the culture and lifestyle of transgender men" |
| TG Life | Brianna Austin | Inicia Incorporated | 2004 | - | | | "An online magazine, social network and resource center for, by, and about the transgender community." |
| Brianna Austin | Brianna Austin | Inicia Incorporated | 2000 | - | | | "An online resource for articles, essays, poetry and true stories by Brianna Nicole Austin." |
| Transgender Tapestry | Dallas Denny | International Foundation for Gender Education | 1985 | 2006 | Quarterly | ISSN 0884-9749 | Formerly known as Tapestry |
| Transsexual News Telegraph | Gail Sondegaard | | 1991 | 2002 | Quarterly | ISSN 1091-1138 | |
| Reflections International: The TV & TS Magazine | | TransEssex | 1995 | 1999 | | ISSN 1357-2644 | |
| TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | Paisley Currah, Susan Stryker | Duke University Press | 2014 | | Quarterly | ISSN 2328-9252, ISSN 2328-9260 | |
| Transformation Magazine | Hanna Rodgers | Transformation Publishing Inc. | 1969 | | Quarterly | OCLC 34616263 | Magazine of interest to transgender, transsexual, crossdresser, intersex, gender fluid, gender non-conformist readers |
| TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism | Davina Anne Gabriel | | 1993 | 1995? | Quarterly | | Feminism, trans activism, trans women |
| Narcissus: Tv/ts Magazine | | New TransEssex | 1989 | 1992? | semiannually | OCLC 51182668 | |
| Transvestia | Virginia Prince | Chevalier Publications | 1960 | 1986 | Bimonthly | OCLC 10363080 | |
| Transvestia: The Journal of the American Society for Equality in Dress | Virginia Prince | Virginia Prince | 1952 | 1952 | two issues (mimeographed) | OCLC 952387167 | First transgender publication in U.S. history |
| Das 3. Geschlecht - Die Transvestiten (The Third Sex) | Various | Friedrich Radzuweit | 1930 | 1933 | Biannually | ISSN 1619-9820 (German language reprint) | "A German magagazine featuring stories and advice columns written by cis and trans authors for trans readers. English translation available at The Weimar Project" |
| #EnbyLife: Journal for non-binary & gender diverse creatives | Rae White, Alison Evans | Rae White | 2016 | | once in 2016, approximately weekly from 2019 | | "In a world where diverse and marginalised voices are so often not heard, considered or understood, #EnbyLife journal will showcase the creative works of non-binary and gender diverse creatives, and pay them for their work." |
| Urania | Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Irene Clyde, Dorothy Cornish and Jessey Wade | Privately published by D. R. Mitra, Manoranjan Press | 1916 | 1940 | Bimonthly, then triannually | OCLC 269259351 | "The unifying legacy of Urania challenges the idea that trans and non-binary identities are something novel, and shows the longstanding interconnections and solidarities between feminism, trans rights and sapphic lives." |
| Girl Talk Magazine | Gina Lance, Bijoux Deluxe, Ivy D Vine, DeLux, | Rachel White, GTM Publications | 1997 | 2005 | Bi--month;y | ISSN: 15245594OCLC:41104489 | Enjoying the fun of the Transgender lifestyle |

## Academic journals

* Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies (2021–present)
* International Journal of Transgender Health (1998–present)
* Transgender Health (2016–present)
* Transgender Studies Quarterly (2014–present)