Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Stories and Resources

Articles, Journals & Magazines

Gender and Sexuality

Friends Journal, May 2016.

Quaker Perspectives on Trans Issues

Zine compiled by Jed Walsh. 2016.

US Transgender Survey

National Center for Transgender Equality, 2015. http://www.ustranssurvey.org/

Gender Revolution

National Geographic, January 2017. http://on.natgeo.com/2kCSmOK

  • A Different Gender Story, Eli Enochs. Western Friend, March/April 2017. Page 10.

  • Becoming More Welcoming to People of all Genders, Multnomah Resource Packet.

  • Becoming Yourself, Swarthmore College Bulletin, Winter 2017. Pages 26-33.

  • 6 Ways To Stand In Active Solidarity With Our Trans Community, Simone Digital, 2016. http://bit.ly/2oY5A7w

  • 7 Things Everyone Should Know About Supporting Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Folks, Dee Rene. For Harriot, 2015. http://bit.ly/2pxviTa

  • 24 Actions You NEED to Take to Help Trans Women of Color Survive, Lexi Adsit. Autostraddle, 2016. http://bit.ly/2oXHbis

Film & Multimedia

Free CeCe

Documentary Film. http://www.freececedocumentary.net/

Fiction & Poetry

This Is How It Always Is

Laurie Frankel. Flatiron Books, 2017. (KCLS, SPL)

Deliver Me From Nowhere

Tennessee Jones. Soft Skull Press, 2005.

Seasonal Velocities

Ryka Aoki. Trans-Genre Press, 2013.

Memoir & Essay

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

Janet Mock. Simon & Schuster, 2015. (KCLS, SPL)

She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders

Jennifer Finney Boylan. Random House, 2003. (KCLS, SPL)

The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You

Bear Bergman. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009. (SPL)

Non-Fiction

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Julia Serano. Seal Press, 2016. (KCLS, SPL)

Children’s Books

Who Are You?: The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity

Brook Pessin-Whedbee. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017. (SPL)

I Am Jazz

Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings. Dial Books for Young Readers, 2014. (KCLS, SPL)