Transgender Literature

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	"Feinberg's classic first novel about growing up as a masculine female and the emotional consequences of trying to change into a man."

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	"The Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age novel about Cal, a hermaphroditic girl traveling the ups-and-downs of her unusual physical, emotional, and social growth."

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	"The classic story of Orlando, an English nobleman who emerges centuries later in the 1920's as a woman. Both a comic novel and Woolf's longest love letter to her beloved Vita Sackville-West."

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	"Though general focused on lesbian relationships, this highly-readable novel also goes into the life of crossdressers in Victorian England."

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	"A disturbing novel about a 12-year-old cross-dressing boy who renames himself Sarah and travels from truckstop to truckstop."

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	"A fictionalized version of the life of Einar Wegener, the first man to medically transition into a female."

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	"A compelling novel about a college professor who decides transform himself into a woman and the effect on his loved ones, community, and himself."

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	"A one-man show that follows the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a cross-dressing antiques dealer who lived through both the Nazi and Communist regimes to be hailed as a cultural hero."

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	"When a choir boy desperately tries to keep his voice from lowering by taking hormones, he finds he must deal with the effects of his changing gender expression."

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	"A non-fiction mystery about one of the first men to ever have surgery to transform into a woman."

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	"A comic novel that follows a young cross-dressing man and his adventures in the New York underground (trans)sexual scene."

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	"The chilling memoir of a young woman forced into mental hospitals to cure her "Gender Identity Disorder.""

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	"A novel following an assassin-for-hire who is forced to disguise himself as a woman to receive laundered money for federal agents...and finds that life isn't half bad as a female."

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	"A classic Victorian novel about a man who, taken with the charm of a young man named Frank, befriends him only to find that the boy is really a woman named Frances."

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	"A book that follows Mary, a young girl in Reostoration-age England, as well as her family and community, as she does what so few have: tries to change her gender."

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	"A collection of eight different stories all centered around men who change into women."

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	"The script adaptation of a hit Broadway musical featuring a drag queen's search for love and respect in pre-AIDS America."

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	"A classic look at the urban underworld of male prostitution set against a backdrop of hustlers and drag queens."

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	"Timothy Coleridge returns to his childhood home of Splendora transformed into a woman, and sets the town talking."

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	"The story of Trelkovsky, a shy, withdrawn man who moves into the former apartment of a woman who has just committed suicide--and finds himself transforming into the exact same woman."

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	"A compilation of two Australian plays--Kenna's "Mates" and Spears' "The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin"--that feature drag queens."

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	"A Victorian novel about Dennis, a young English aristocrat forced by his sisters to dress and behave like a proper lady, and who finds, soon enough, that he may actually prefer life as Denise."

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	"A lyrical novel about Arcadio, a runaway tent-show hermaphrodite in search of his family."

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	"A collection of 16 excerpts from the memoirs of transsexuals who have undertaken surgery to transform themselves into the opposite gender."

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	"A gritty graphic novel that explores a sort of dark, sexual underworld as well as the dark world within a young transsexual writer."