Trans in sports 2017

Aaron Stewart , 33, US soldier injured in Kuwait in 2015, who won eight medals including two golds Invictus as a woman at previous Invictus Games, competed at this year’s Invictus Games, Toronto as a man.

Alex Hahn, New Brunswick, played football at St. Thomas University in Fredericton last year, but now has dropped out to transition.

Chloe Psyche Anderson, 24, California, gave up on volleyball

Christina Ginther, 44, Minnesota, never played US football before, rejected by the Vixen team management despite a good try-out, but now accepted on Minnesota Machine .

Hannah Mouncey, 26, Australia, who previously represented Australia in men’s handball, denied a position in Women’s football.

Jacob Roy, 20, at University of New Brunswick in Saint John, dropped sports to transition.

Laurel Hubbard, NZ, 39, who previously held junior male weightlifting records, transitioned in 2012, won three women’s records in 2017, and will represent NZ.

Mark Beggs, 18, Texas, wrestling, obliged by state law to compete against girls, and won girls’ state title.

Pat Cordova-Goff, 17, California, accepted on girls’ softball team after passing of California’s A.B. 1266 law.

Pat Manuel, US boxer, reached Olympic Trials as a female boxer, transitioned 2013-4, 2016 approved by USA Boxing to fight as a man, now ready to fight at age 32.

Savannah Burton, actress from Newfoudland, competed for the 3^rd time at the WDBF Dodgeball World Championships

Tia Thompson, 32, Hawai’i approved after three years by USA Volleyball to play in women’s division.

Tiffany Abreu, Brazil, who has 2 MVP awards for playing in men’s volleyball before transition in 2012. In 2017 she was authorized to play in women’s teams. Early 2017 played in a second divison team in Italy. Now signed a contract with Volei Bauru, in the Superliga.

Vanessa Sites, 31, Pennsylvania, roller derby player tried for Team USA

2017 Obituaries

Tony Sinclair (192? – 2017) Performer in Oklahoma City.

Diamond Lil (1935 – 2016) Atlanta performer.

Aleshia Brevard (1937 – 2017) performer, Hollywood actress, theatre director.

Andrea Susan Malick (1939 – 2015) photographer at Casa Susanna, camera work on Let Me Die a Woman.

Flawless Sabrina (1939 – 2017) performer, organizer of the pioneering drag pageants in the 1960s, including the 1967 final which was filmed as The Queen, which went to the Cannes film festival and made a star of Rachael Harlow.

Marissa Sherrill Lynn (1942 – 2017) activist, founder of Tiffany Club, IFGE.

Diane/Danny Torr (1948 – 2017) gender performer, author of Sex, Drag and Male Roles, 2010, with Johhny Science did drag king workshops to train women to pass as men.

Holly Boswell (1950-2017) early adopter of term ‘transgender’, activist.

++Ben Barres (1954 - 2017) neurobiologist who specialized in Glial cells, of pancreatic cancer.  

Mohammed Amin (1957 - 2017) a Pakistani ladies’ tailor working in Riyadh, Arabia, was arrested at a trans party and died that night in police custody.

Jenny Swift (1967 – 2016) on remand for murder, but in Doncaster men’s prison, by suicide.

Rowan Feldhaus (1967 – 2017) after winning a legal battle to change his name, died from complications after a hysterectomy.

Murder Count

Murders in the 12 months up to the Transgender Day of Remembrance. There 270 were recorded deaths this last year – plus many more nor reported, especially in countries were transgender is not recognized. However this is slightly down from the 295 in 2016. On the other hand, there was an increase in the US from 23 murders in 2018 to 29 in 2017 – almost certainly resulting from the change in the political climate. However Brazil, where 171 murders of trans persons were reported in 2017, has the largest count – and has more murders of trans persons than all the rest of the world together.

• Ygor Coelho. “Why does Brazil have the highest murder rate of transgender people?” Quora. https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Brazil-have-the-highest-murder-rate-of-transgender-people.

Books on Gender Variance in 2017

In compiling this list I kept noticing Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Thus they are printing quite a few trans titles, although more advice books than history or politics. Their web page list categories: Autism, Disability, Religious etc, but not Trans. Here is the list of the 19 trans books that they do publish, but without making them into a category.



$£¥ €=Excessively overpriced books. 
 

• $£¥ € Robert Diaz, Marissa Largo & Fritz Pino (eds). Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries. Northwestern University Press, 2017.
• Qwo-Li Driskill. Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory. University of Arizona Oress, 2016.
• 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.
• Haeth Foff Davis. Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?. New York University Press, 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.
• Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel & Sarah Tobias. Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities. Rutgers University Press, 1016.
• Kate Norman. Socialising Transgender: Support for Transition. Dunedin, 2017.
• $£¥ €Tobias Raun. Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube. Routledge, 2016.
• $£¥ € Christina Richards. Trans and Sexuality: An existentially-informed enquiry with implications for counselling psychology. Routledge, 2017.

 
 

Legal & Imprisonment

• Sarah Jane Baker. Transgender: Behind Prison Walls. Waterside Press, 2017.
• Jennie Kermode. Transgender Employees in the Workplace: A Guide for Employers. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017.
• Rebecca T Klien. Transgender Rights and Protections. Rosen Publishing Group, 2017.

 
 

Health and Medical

• $£¥ € Lynne Carroll & Laurn Mizock. Clinical Issues and Affirmative Treatment With Transgender Clients, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America. Elsevier, 2017.
• $£¥ € Michael R Kauth & Jillian Shipard (eds). Adult Transgender Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Mental Health Professionals. Routledge, 2017.
• Susan Meyer. Health Issues When You're Transgender. Rosen Young Adult, 2017.

 
 

Arts

• Reina Gossett, Eric a Stanley & Johanna Burton (eds). Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility. MIT Press, 2017.
• Sébastien Lifshitz, textes de Christine Bard et Isabelle Bonnet. Mauvais genres: les travestis à travers un siècle de photographie amateur. Les éditions textuel, 2016.
• $£¥ € Jolene Zigarovich (ed). TransGothic in Literature and Culture. Routledge, 2017.

 
 

Sports

• $£¥ € Eric Anderson & Ann Travers. Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport. Routledge, 2017.

 
 

Guidebooks

• $£¥ € Corona Brezina. Coming Out as Transgender. Rosen Young Adult, 2017.
• Candis Cayne. Hi Gorgeous!: Transforming Inner Power into Radiant Beauty. Running Press, 2017.
• Vernon Coleman. Men in Bras, Panties and Dresses: The Secret Truths About Transvestites. Kindle, 2017.
• Charlie Craggs (ed). To My Trans Sisters. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017.
• Declan Henry. Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017.
• Alex Iantaffi & Meg-John Barker. How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017.
• Ephraim Das Janssen. Phenomenal Gender: What Transgender Experience Discloses. Indiana University Press, 2017.
• Matthew Mills & Gillie Stoneham. The Voice Book for Trans and Non-Binary People: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Authentic Voice and Communication. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017.
• Sara Woods. Identifying as Transgender. Rosen Publishing Group, 2017.

 

Transphobic

• Alex P Serritella. Transgenda - Abuse and Regret in the Sex-Change Industry. Bookstand Publishing, 2016.
• ++David Kupelian.  The Snapping of the American Mind: Healing a Nation Broken by a Lawless Government and Godless Culture.  WND Books, 2015.  

Couples & Family

• Mary Collins & Donald Collins. At the Broken Places: A Mother and Trans Son Pick Up the Pieces. Beacon Press, 2017.
• Jo Green. The Trans Partner Handbook: A Guide for When Your Partner Transitions. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017.
• Wenn B Lawson & Beatrice M Lawson. Transitioning Together: One Couple's Journey of Gender and Identity Discovery. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017.
• Elijah C Nealy. Transgender Children and Youth: Cultivating Pride and Joy with Families in Transition. WW Norton, 2017.

 
 

Cross Dreamers

• Tatiana de Rosnay. Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier. St Martin’s Press.

 
 

AutoBiography

• Alex Bertie. Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard. 2017
• Eli Clare. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure. Duke University Press, 2017
• Kimberley Davis. Becoming Kimberly: A Transgender's Journey. CreateSpace, 2017.
• Juno Dawson. The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women . . . from Someone Who Has Been Both. Two Roads, 2017.
• Denise Chanterelle DuBois. Self-Made Woman: A Memoir. University of Wisconsin Press, 2017.
• Chris Edwards. BALLS: It Takes Some to Get Some. Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2016.
• Laura Jane Grace. Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout. Hachette Books, 2016.
• Caitlyn Jenner. The Secrets of My Life. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
• Charlie Kiss. A New Man: Lesbian. Protest. Mania. Trans Man. Matador, 2017.
• Amanda Lepore. Doll Parts. Regan Arts, 2017.
• C N Lester. Trans Like Me: a Journey for All of Us. Virago, 2017
• Thomas Page McBee. Man Alive: a True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man. Canongate, 2017.
• Janet Mock. Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me. Atria Books, 2017.
• Caroline Paige. True Colours: My Life as the First Openly Transgender Officer in the British Armed Forces. Biteback Publishing, 2017.
• Sam Peterson. Trunky (Trangender Junky).
• Rupert Raj. Dancing The Dialectic: True Tales of A Transgender Trailblazer. CreateSpace, 2017.
•  Kaitlin Sine Riordan, Bondage of self. Kaitlin Sine Riordan, 2016.
• Rhyannon Styles. The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is. Headline, 2017.
•  Anastacia Tomson. Always Anastacia - A Transgender Life in South Africa. Jonathan Ball, 2016

Biography

• Patricia Bell-Scott. The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice. Knopf, 2016.
• ++Val Brown. Toupie Lowther: Her life.  Matador, 2017.  
• Denis Cosnard. Frede. Des Équateurs, 2017.
• Rosalind Rosenberg. Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray. Oxford University Press, 2017.
• Bruce D Smith. Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men. Transgress Press, 2017
• Roy Woodard. Bunny Breckinridge—Book One: Exalted as an Early Hero of the Gay Rights Movement. Kindle, 2016.
• Roy Woodard. Bunny Breckinridge—Book Two: Exalted as an Early Hero of the Gay Rights Movement. Kindle, 2016.

Race and Gender

• Sonia Borawska. Rachel Dolezal Affair: race, identity and representation of women in the news. : Comperative analysis between media coverage of Rachel Dolezal and Caitlyn Jenner. Kindle, 2016.
• C. Riley Snorton. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

 
 

Trans/GLBT history

• $£¥ € Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carlà-Uhink & Margherita Facella (eds). TransAntiquity: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World. Routledge, 2017.
• Julio Capo. Welcome to Fairyland Queer Miami before 1940. University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
• Emily K Hobson. Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. University of California Press, 2016.
• Bob Ostertag. Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity. University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.
• Barbara Penne. Transgender Role Models and Pioneers. Rosen Young Adult, 2017.
• $£¥ € Walter Penrose. Postcolonial Amazons: Female Masculinity and Courage in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit Literature. Oxford University press, 2016.
• Benita Roth. The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA: Anti-AIDS Activism in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• Emily Skidmore. True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. NYU Press, 2017.
• $£¥ € Thomas Taylor, Annette Timm & Rainer Herrn (eds). Not Straight from Germany: Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld. University of Michigan Press, 2017.

 
 

Photography

• Magnus Hastings, with a Foreword by Boy George. Why Drag? Chronicle Books, 2016.

 
 

Previously Announced for 2016:

• $£¥ € Michel J Boucher. Transgender Representation and the Politics of the Real in the United States. Routledge, delayed to December 2018.
• 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

Announced for 2017:

• $£¥ € Eyler. Transgender Healthcare. Springer Publishing, 2017. disappeared
• $£¥ € Lynda Johnson. Trans Gender, Sex, Place, and Space: Geographies of Gender Variance. Routledge, 2017. disappeared
• $£¥ € Candace Moore. Marginal Production Cultures: Infrastructures of Sexual Minority and Transgender Media. Routledge, 2017. Delayed to 2018

 
 

Announced for 2018:

• Brian Belovitch. Trans Figured: My Journey from Boy to Girl to Woman to Man. Skyhorse Publishing, 2018.
• Christine Burns (ed). Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows. Unbound, 2018.
• $£¥ € Ruth Pearce. Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility. Policy Press, 2018
• Juno Roche. Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018.