Books on gender variance in 2016

$£¥ €=Excessively overpriced books. 

Note, of course, the high correlation of high prices and being published by Routledge.


I would like to mention Transgress Press which has a growing catalogue of books about trans topics, and has several trans persons on its board and staff.

• $£¥ € Walter Pierre Bouman, Annelou LC de Vries & Guy T’Sjoen (eds). Gender Dysphoria and Gender Incongruence. Routledge, 2016.
• Trystan Cotton. Below the Belt: Genital Talk by Men of Trans Experience. Transgress Press, 2016.
• $£¥ € Lucas Crawford. Transgender Architectonics: The Shape of Change in Modernist Space. Routledge, 2016.
• Anne Givaudan. Singular Loves. Kindle, 2016.
• Lee Harrington. Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities. Mystic Productions, 2016. 
• $£¥ € matthew heinz. Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse. Intellect Ltd, 2016.
• A King. Gender is Fluid and not fixed at birth: A look at Gender Dysphoria - Previously known as Gender Identity Disorder. Kindle, 2016
• $£¥ € Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel & Sarah Tobias (eds) Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities. Rutgers University Press, 2016.
• $£¥ € Tobias Raun. Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube. Routledge, 2016.
• Eve Shapiro. Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age.
• $£¥ € Jemma Tosh. Psychology and Gender Dysphoria: Feminist and Transgender Perspectives. Routledge, March 2016. Routledge, 2015.
• ROC Tree. 50 Questions NOT to Ask a Trans Man. Kindle,
• $£¥ € Carlo Trombetta, Giovanni Liguoti & Michele Bertolotto (eds). Management of Gender Dysphoria: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Springer, 2016.
• $£¥ € Francisco Vazquez Garcia. Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500–1800. Routledge, 2016.
• Morgan Mann Willis. Outside the Xy: Black and Brown Queer Masculinity. Riverdale Avenue Books, 2016.

Spiritual

• Christina Beardley & Michelle O’Brien (eds). This Is My Body: Hearing the Theology of Transgender Christians. Darton Longman and Todd, 2016.
• Vaughn Roberts. Transgender: Christian compassion, convictions and wisdom for today's big questions (Talking Points). Kindle, 2016.
• Megan Rohrer. Transgender Children of God. Lulu, 2016.
• Rhiannon Tibbetts. Listening to God's Healing Love Song: As Heard by a Downhearted Transgender Woman in an Uplifting Major, (Heavenly) Transgender Key. Kindle, 2016.

See also autobiographies by Michael Dillon, Lei Ming and Upasaka Devamitra.


Legal & Imprisonment

• Ally Windsor Howell. This is Who We Are: A Guide to Transgenderism and the Laws Affecting Transgender Persons. Ankerwycke, March 2016.
• $£¥ € Ally Windsor Howell. Transgender Persons and the Law 2nd Edition. American Bar Association, May 2016.
• Andrea Pelleschi. Transgender Rights and Issues. Essential Library, 2016. 

Arts

• Donald Albrecht. Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York. Skira Rizzoli, 2016.
• $£¥ € Simone Chess. Male to Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature. Routledge, 2016. 
• Laura Horak. Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934. Rutgers University Press, 2016.
• $£¥ € Maki Isaka. Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater. University of Washington Press, 2016.

Guidebooks

• Thomas E Bevan. Being Transgender: What You Should Know. Praeger, 2016.
• Hannah Lane. Transgender Voice Workbook: A voice course for MTF trans people. Kindle, 2016.
• Sky Logan. Transgender Transition: Introduction. Kindle, 2016.
• Sky Logan. Transgender Transition - Quick Start Guide. Kindle, 2016.
• $£¥ € Z Nicolazzo. Trans* in College: Transgender Students' Strategies For Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion. Stylus Publishing, 2016.
• Katherine Reilly. The Road to Femininity: A New Life for a New Woman. Akakia Publications, 2016.
• Veronica Vera. Miss Vera's Cross Gender Fun for All. Greenery Press, April 2016.

Transphobic

• Alex P. Serritella. Transgenda - Abuse and Regret in the Sex-Change Industry. Bookstand Publishing, 2016.

Trans Children

• Michele Angelo & Alisa Bowman. Raising the Transgender Child: A Complete Guide for Parents, Families, and Caregivers. Seal Press, 2016.
• Stephen A. Brill & Lisa Kennedy. The Transgender Teen. Cleis Press, 2016.
• Diane Ehrensaft. The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes. The Experiment, 2016.
• Mya Vaughn. Transgender Youth: Perceptions, Media Influences and Social Challenges. Nova Science Pub Inc, 2016.
• Hillary Whittington. Raising Ryland: Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child with No Strings Attached. William Morrow Paperbacks, 2016.

Couples

• Lyn Merryfeather. You've Changed: An Evocative Autoethnography. FriesenPress, 2016. About the lesbian wives of trans men.
• $£¥ € Carla A Pfeffer. Queering Families: The Postmodern Partnerships of Cisgender Women and Transgender Men. Oxford University Press, 2016.

Cross Dreamers

• Transcender Lee. Woman Incognito: Transsexual Without Transition. Transcender Lee, 2016. 
• Felix Conrad. How to Jedi Mindtrick Your Gender Dysphoria, 2016.
• Felix Conrad. Is a Transgender Woman a Woman? 2016.
• Felix Conrad. Quantum Desire: A Sexological Analysis of Crossdreaming, 2016

AutoBiography

• Lisa Alexandra. Becoming Lisa: A Transgender Journey. CreateSpace, 2016.
• Buck Angel. Buck Wild West. Kindle, 2016.
• Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (Jacob Lau & Cameron Partridge eds). Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions. Fordham University Press, 2016. LamdaLiterary Decades after Liz Hodgkinson’s biography, we finally get his original account.
• Paula J Coffer. Sandbox to Sandbox: A Walk in Confidence. CreateSpace, 2016.
• Rubi Danish. After Life As A Shemale Prostitute. CreateSpace, 2016.
• $£¥ € Upasaka Devamitra. Confessions of a Transvestite Buddhist: A Quest for Manhood. Achilles Publishing, 2016. Review
• Katie Rain Hill. Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015.
• Makie Hoolboom & Chase Joynt. You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death, and Transition. Coach House Books, 2016. Review LamdaLiterary
• Daliah Husu. I Am Woman: Surviving the Past, the Present, & the Future. CreateSpace, 2016. YouTube
• Jazz Jennings. Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen. Crown Books for Young Readers, 2016.
• Liam Klenk. Paralian: Not Just Transgender. Troubador, 2016. Webpage
• Edward Leighton. Daryl is offline: Memoirs of a twice-disabled transman. CreateSpace, 2016.
• Everett Maroon. Bumbling Into Body Hair: Tales of an Accident-Prone Transsexual. Lethe Press, 2016. Webpage
• Melanie Phillips. The Transition Trilogy. Kindle, 2016. The daily journals of her transition, previously available online.
• A Revathi & Nandini Murali. Revathi: A Life in Trans Activism. Zubaan Books, July 2016. Webpage, Second book by A Revathi.
• Trevor MacDonald. Where's the Mother?: Stories from a Transgender Dad. Trans Canada Press, 2016. The noted Manitoba trans dad. Webpage YouTube
• Lei Ming with Lura Frazey. Life Beyond My Body: A Transgender Journey to Manhood in China. Transgress Press, 2016. Webpage Finds solace in a Christian church in China.
• Liz Roberts & Alison Mau. First Lady: From Boyhood to Womanhood: The Incredible Story of New Zealand’s Sex-Change Pioneer Liz Roberts. Upstart Press, 2015. Review, Extract
• Leslie Richelle Scott. Outside In, Inside Out: A Transgender Journey. Lulu, 2015. Newsarticle Newsarticle
• Anastacia Tomson. Always Anastacia: A Transgender Life in South Africa. Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2016. Newsarticle

Biography

• T. Buburuz. Lady Chablis Trivia: 220+ Questions Inside! Kindle, 2016.
• $£¥ € Sara Davidmann. Ken. To be destroyed. Schikt Publishing, 2016. Schwulesmuseum Family archive reveals that Ken, a Scottish optician in the 1950s was trans.
• Susan Faludi. In the Darkroom. Metropolitan Books, 2016. Faludi’s father, at age 76, moved back to Hungary and after a forced-femininity phase, had surgery in Thailand.
• $£¥ € Marty Gitlin. Chaz Bono. Rosen Young Adult, 2016.
• Kirk Frederick. Write That Down! The Comedy of Male Actress Charles Pierce. Havenhurst Books, 2016.
• Ian Halperin. Kardashian Dynasty: The Controversial Rise of America's Royal Family. Gallery Books, 2016. DailyMail “The real reason Caitlyn Jenner IS considering returning to being a man ... Kardashian biographer says Christian belief that it would be sinful to date women is behind gender struggle”. TheWrap
• $£¥ € Jeff Mapua. Lana Wachowski. Rosen Young Adult, 2016.
• $£¥ € Erin Staley. Lavern Cox. Rosen Young Adult, 2016

GLBT history

• Stuart Feather. Blowing the Lid: Gay Liberation, Sexual Revolution and Radical Queens. Zero Books, 2016. Features the political drag of the early 1970s in London. Review
• $£¥ € Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman & L Pauline Rankin. We Still Demand!: Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles. UBC Press, 2016. The Canadian story. Paperback edition in 2017.
• Clayton J Whisnant. Queer Identities and Politics in Germany: A History, 1880-1945. Harrington Park Press, 2016. 

Photography

• Mark Seliger. On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories. Rizzoli, 2016.

Written by a trans person  

• $£¥ € Aoife Assumpta Hart. Ancestral Recall: The Celtic Revival and Japanese Modernism. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.

 
Previously Announced for 2016:

• $£¥ € Michel J Boucher. Transgender Representation and the Politics of the Real in the United States. Routledge, delayed to December 2017.
• Michael Brownstein. Medical Maverick: 35 Years of Transgender Surgery. Transgress Press. 2016 - disappeared
• Donna Gee. Why Is My Dad Not Answering Her Phone?CreateSpace, 2015. Preview - disappeared
• CN Lester. Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us. Virago, 2016. - disappeared
• Bruce D Smith. Yours in Liberation: The Queer Life of Trans Pioneer Lou Sullivan. Transgress Press. Delayed

Announced for 2017:

• $£¥ € Eric Anderson & Ann Travers. Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport. Routledge, 2017.
• Corona Brezina. Coming Out as Transgender. Rosen Publishing Group, 2017.
• $£¥ € Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carla-Uhink & Margherita Facella (eds) TransAntiquity: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World. Routledge, 2017.
• $£¥ € Lynne Carroll & Laurn Mizock. Clinical Issues and Affirmative Treatment With Transgender Clients, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America. Elsevier, 2017.
• Laura Erickson-Schroth & Laura A Jacobs. "You're in the Wrong Bathroom!": And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People. Beacon Press, 2017.
• $£¥ € Eyler. Transgender Healthcare. Springer Publishing, 2017.
• Declan Henry. Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017.
• Ephraim Das Janssen, Phenomenal Gender: What Transgender Experience Discloses. Indiana University Press, 2017.
• $£¥ € Jon Ingvar Kjaran. Constructing Sexualities and Gendered Bodies in School Spaces: Nordic Insights on Queer and Transgender Students. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Rebecca T Klien. Transgender Rights and Protections. Rosen Publishing Group, 2017.
• Wenn B Lawson & Beatrice M Lawson. Transitioning Together: One Couple's Journey of Gender and Identity Discovery. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017.
• Amanda Lepore & Thomas Flannery. Doll Parts. Regan Arts, 2017.
• $£¥ € Lynda Johnson. Trans Gender, Sex, Place, and Space: Geographies of Gender Variance. Routledge, 2017.
• Susan Meyer. Health Issues When You're Transgender. Rosen Publishing Group, 2017.
• Matthew Mills & Gillie Stoneham. The Transgender Experience: Voice and Communication Therapy from the Inside. Jessica Kingslay, 2017.
• Janet Mock. Firsts: How My Twenties Helped Me to Redefine Realness. Atria Book, 2017.
• $£¥ € Candace Moore. Marginal Production Cultures: Infrastructures of Sexual Minority and Transgender Media. Routledge, 2017.
• Elijah C Nealy. Transgender Children and Youth: Cultivating Pride and Joy with Families in Transition. WW Norton, 2017.
• Kate Norman. Socialising Transgender: Support for Transition. Dunedin, 2017.
• Barbara Penne. Transgender Role Models and Pioneers. Rosen Young Adukt, 2017.
• $£¥ € Christina Richards. Trans and Sexuality: An existentially-informed enquiry with implications for counselling psychology. Routledge, 2017.
• Leonard Sax. Why Gender Matters, Revised and Updated: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences. Harmony, 2017.
• Sara Woods. Identifying as Transgender. Rosen Publishing Group, 2017.
• $£¥ € Jolene Zigarovich. TransGothic in Literature and Culture. Routledge, 2017.

Announced for 2018:

• Michael R Kauth & Jillian Shipard (eds). Adult Transgender Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Mental Health Professionals. Routledge, 2018.