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Part 2 (this page): - Gender Binary / Gender Identity Disorder / Related Issues - Worldwide New Items - Discrimination / Abuses / Murders / Legal Issues - Internet Resources - Films / Videos / The Arts - Bibliographies / Abstracts / Conferences - Books - Full Text Articles.

Part 1: - General Information - Transvestite Issues - Transsexual Issues - Intersexuality - Transphobia - "Of Colour" North American Issues - Asian Resources / Articles - French Resources / Articles - General Resources / Articles.

Gender Binary / Gender Identity Disorder

The tyranny of the gender binary - "There must only be two genders" and harm will be done to all who are born in violation of socially learned beliefs. - Sunday Times Magazine, October, 2001 - Empirically Deconstructing the Sex/Gender Binary. - The worse of both worlds (2 parts): "How would you feel if you'd grown up thinking you were a girl and discovered at 20 that, genetically, you were a man? ..But in the West since the 1950s, standard medical procedure for treating children born with ambiguous genitalia has been to assign them a gender quickly to avoid ridicule and rejection... Surgeons, geneticists, endocrinologists and clinical psychologists form a team to decide, usually within a few days, what sex the child is to be designated. The rationale is that parents must be told as quickly as possible to prevent them from rejecting the child. This medical response is based on the assumption that normality is essential for parental and social acceptance and happiness." - The Five Sexes. - The Five Sexes, Revisited. - Boy or Girl? When Doctors Choose a Child's Sex (Video Review: Journal of Sex Research, May, 2001) - Male, Female, or Other. - Ms Magazine: Making the Cut - It's a girl! ..Or is it? When there's doubt why are surgeons calling the shots? - A Way Out of the Gender Mess. - Thai Genders and the Limits of Western Gender Theory. - How I Became a Queen in the Empire of Gender (Third Genders, American Aboriginal People. Other cultures).

The eight human genders. - A portrait of the gender rainbow, along with nine answers to the question "How do you define gender? - Human Sexuality and Gender: What makes a person male or female? - Key variables in Social Investigations: Gender as a key variable? Issues in the use of gender. Deconstructing gender. - Neither Man nor Woman. - The uses and limitations of transsexual categories. - Transgender People Across Cultures Over Time. - The Transgender/Shaman Link. - Feminine, Masculine... Neuter? - Gender: Beyond Appearances. - Gendercide. - Performativity N.A: "Performativity is the process for individuals of repeating and mimicking societal markers of gender, which part of an overall theory that shows gender to be constructed. If gender is a performance, then there is no preexisting true or false identity by which to judge an individual’s acts or traits." - Performativity. - When Gender Isn't a Given.

Breaking out of Binaries: Reconceptualizing Gender and its Relationship to Language in Computer-Mediated Communication - by Michelle Rodino. Facets - An Introduction to Dress and Gender: "Although the concept of multiple genders may seem alien to some cultures that lack the linguistic capacity to describe them, in many societies this is not the case. But are gender categories even necessary? Why must one become a fa'afafine in order to perform "women's work"? What is "women's work"? "Men's work"? Are words such as transgender, transsexual, transvestite, hermaphrodite and berdache accurate descriptions of who we are? Or are they just convenient (or in some cases, derogatory) categories for containing the unknown?"

Fleshing Gender, Sexing the Body Refiguring the Sex/Gender Distinction. - Gender Criticism: What Isn't Gender. - About Gender: Towards a balanced account of gender and sex differences. - Sex and Gender: Same or Different? - Taking Sides: Issues in Sex and Gender. - Reevaluating Sex Reassignment: Evidence supports nature over nurture in establishing gender identity. - The Multi-Dimensionality of Gender. - Butler, Subjectivity, Sex/Gender, and a Postmodern Theory of Gender. - Shaking up transgender assumptions.

Androgyny and Gender Dialetics: "One of the biggest and most prevalent mistakes in Western Culture is the idea that there exist two separate and "opposite" genders, masculinity and femininity. This gender dualism is not only false and without any factual or scientific support, but also very harmful. One strategy to overcome this wrongness is the idea of androgyny, by which masculinity and femininity are not conceived as opposite ends of one spectrum, but as two separate spectrums: you can be or have both at once (or neither), not only the one or the other." - What is Gender? - Swinburne's Philosophy of Androgyny. - Androgyne: The Union of Opposites Within. - The Amazon Connection. - Gender Gallery.

GenDissent Thesis. - Gender Identity Disorder. - Notes on Gender Identity Disorder. - It's Time America! / It's Time Oregon: Position Paper on Gender Identity Disorder. - The Disparate Classification of Gender and Sexual Orientation in American Psychiatry. - An open letter to physicians regarding Gender Dysphoria. - Myth, Stereotype, and Cross-Gender Identity in the DSM-IV . - Major changes in DSM-IV regarding transvestism and transvestic fetishism (To access - Must Subscribe). - Biological Origins of Gender Dysphoria. - Gender Identity Disorder Articles. - Notes on Gender Role Transition: Rethinking the Gender Identity Disorder Terminology in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV.

Culture, sexual lifeways, and developmental subjectivities: rethinking sexual taxonomies (Social Research): "In the twenty years since the first English translation of Foucault's (1980[1978]) History of Sexuality, Volume 1, sexual categories have become conceptually and ideologically suspect. Building on Foucault's post-structural critique of sexual ideas and discourses, lesbian, gay, and feminist theorists have repeatedly contested the essential, intrinsic, or universal character of sexual identities." - Is Gender Identity Disorder in Children a Mental Disorder? (Sex Roles) "Because of flaws in the DSM-IV definition of mental disorder, and limitations of the current research base, there is insufficient evidence to make any conclusive statement regarding children who experience discomfort with their biological sex. The concluding recommendation is that, given current knowledge, the diagnostic category of GID in children in its current form should not appear in future editions of the DSM."

Gender Identity Disorder in Adolescence: Outcomes of Psychotherapy (Adolescence, Summer 1999). - Adolescents With Gender Identity Disorder Who Were Accepted or Rejected for Sex Reassignment Surgery: A Prospective Follow-up Study (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry). - Forcing Boys to Be Boys: the persecution of gender non-conforming youth - April, 2001 - by Patience W. Crozier, Boston College Third World Law Journal, 21(1): "Part III discusses how the state reinforces gender borders through the legal system by punishing gender transgressions and supporting parental and medical efforts to pathologize gender non-conforming children... Gender Non-Conforming Youth in Schools: Both Invisible and Targeted by the Enforcement of a Binary Gender Model... Profound and enduring change in how gender should be viewed and how difference should be respected will not occur without major alterations to what society teaches children."

Forced crossing: An involuntary traveler across the gender line - and the first man who went under the knife to become a woman. - Who was David Reimer (also, sadly, known as "John/Joan")? - The True Story of John/Joan (Rolling Stone: Alternate Link). - Infant Sex Reassignment: A Case Study in Medical Experimentation. - Book Excerpt, Chapter 1. - The John/Joan Case: Another perspective (Milton Diamond, Ph.D.): Mr. Jack Heidenry, Editor in Chief of the Internet site, ThePosition, published a screed against Mr. John Colapinto and his book As Nature Made Him: The Boy who was Raised a Girl (2000). In so doing he published many false accusations about me. Apparently his writings had no editorial or fact checking. Nevertheless, there are too many unfounded assertions to let matters lie...." Book Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. - Boy raised as a girl suffered final indignity (2004): "Most of David Reimer's tragedies have been well-documented: how his penis was burned off during a botched circumcision, how doctors tried surgery and hormones to make him a girl and how the experiment went horribly wrong. But only his friends knew the 38-year-old Winnipegger was agonizing over yet another personal catastrophe in the months before he committed suicide last week. - Why did David Reimer commit suicide? - By John Colapinto. - The Death of David Reimer: A Case Study in Psychiatric Politics.

Plastic Man: Gender, Genitals and Scientific Humanism (PDF Download): This is a summary of the plenary lecture delivered on 25 October 2006 at Thinking Through Gender and Science, a workshop at Queen’s University Belfast’s Gender Research Forum, which will be published in a different and longer form as ‘Plastic Man: Intersex, Humanism and the Reimer Case’, in Neil Badmington (ed.), Posthuman Conditions, a special issue of Subject Matters (forthcoming 2007)..." - He/She/Thee/Me and How We Came to Be: " Last summer I read a very interesting book called As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl... in the case and I began to research it on the web. If the book had raised many questions in my mind about issues of nurture versus nature, of sexuality and gender, my research raised many more. But, perhaps the most interesting questions were those raised by the case of hermaphroditism, or intersexuality. By exploring what I thought were extreme cases of sexual ambiguity, I discovered that there are plenty of opportunities in biological sexual development for the lines that divide male and female to become blurred, and still be considered normal..." - Is gender a social construct or a biological imperative? - Who Abused Jane Doe? (PDF Download): Case histories make contributions to science and practice, but they can also be highly misleading... Our analysis raises several general questions about the use of case histories in science, medicine, and mental health. There is a cautionary tale not only for those professionals who advance the case history, but also for those who base their theories on it or would readily accept it as proof..."

Search GLBTQ: The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture. - Search BGLAD. - Search the QRD. - Search all GLBT Resource Directories. - Search Google.com. - Search Google Scholar. - Search Google's G:LBT Directory. - MSN Search. - Search findarticles.com: many full text articles and papers.

Academic Searches: Search IngentaConnect: The most comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications. - Search Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online. - Search JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive. - Search The National Library of Medicine.

Wordwide News Items & Web pages

Transgender Coverage: the next frontier (PDF Download). - Asian American journalists association hosts sex gender bender panel discussion. - Multiple Communities Picket Boston Media, Demand Truthful News Coverage. - Chestnuts: A critique of scientific and media reporting of sex and gender issues.

A Police torture transvestites in Argentina. - Policemen execute transvestite in Brazil. - Facing the Music, Transsexual Diva Returns to Storm of Controversy N/A. (Must scroll to locate item) (Related Information) - Transsexuals lose Euro court fight. - The European Court of Justice: a transsexual who was sacked from a job in Cornwall should not have been dismissed. - few ways to be a transvestite and Argentinian in the 90s N/A. - Seventh Gay Transvestite Killed in El Salvador. - IGLHRC: UN Rep Meets with Transgender Activists. - Transsexual Revolution Brews in UK's Leafy Suburbs N/A. - Transgender Rights Bill Hits New York City.

Transsexual teacher's ouster sparks student protest. (The Advocate). - Transsexual sues United Airlines after being refused passage while dressed as a woman. - The World: transsexual politician in New Zealand. - Surprise? It's a Man's World in Iran: transsexual woman elects to be changed back to man. - Transgender Sex Work in the News. - Rhode Island Adopts Transgender-Inclusive Non-Discrimination Law. - Transgender Teacher Comes Under Fire.

Transvestite Thai kickboxer triumphant in Bangkok debut. - Transsexual man wins bid to reenter high school. (Japan) - Japan's First Legal Sex Change. (Related Article)

Transgender News around the World (Divided by Countries). - World Transsexual News. - Transgender News From around theWorld. - Transgender News. - Yahoo! Groups : transgendernews. - GLINN's TransGender News and Issues. - tgguide's Transgender News and Current Events. - Transgender Law and Policy Institute: News.

Trangender News (Italy: Sito dedicato alla questione Transgender, Transessuale, Intersessuata) - GPAC'S National News. - ECCO: Transgender News. - Transgender News (Rhode Island).

Discrimination / Abuses / Murders / Legal Issues

Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People.- 2000 - by Viviane K. Namaste: "Namaste explores myriad ways by which transsexual and transgender (TS/TG) persons are erased, or excluded, from various social institutions, including academe, medicine, and social service organizations... This book is unique because of its focus on the exclusion of transsexuals from social systems and institutions, rather than the production of transsexuals via medicine and psychiatry... In the second section of the book, on culture, Namaste conducts extensive literary criticism, focusing on the erasure of TS/TG persons in popular culture and rhetoric... In the final section of the book, on institutions, Namaste's proposed activist research shines through during her discussion of research politics, methods, and the findings from her interviews with 33 Canadian TS/TG individuals. She opens this most interesting section of the book with a discussion of queer-bashing and the conflation of sexuality and gender in homophobic and transphobic attacks..." - Can a Trans-gendered Person be 'one of us'? Should male to female trans-gendered volunteers be eligible for training in women's crisis centres? - Transgender Tragedies: A new analysis finds Washington, D.C. topping the list in transgender murders.

Latino Commission on AIDS: "The transgender community has been among the most affected communities when it comes to HIV/AIDS but we are often disregarded in the rush to address how AIDS impacts a specific community,” said Nora Molina, a Latina transsexual activist in a sentiment also shared by other participants. “This is particularly neglectful considering that there is also no funding for research on HIV/AIDS in transgender or transsexual communities of color,” she added. - Being Transgender in the Latino Culture. - Latino AIDS Agency Evicted Because Transgender Clients Used ‘Wrong’ Bathroom, ACLU Charges in NY Lawsuit. "Jackson Heights -- which is one of New York’s largest gay communities, is 45 percent Latino and has one of the largest concentration of Latina transgendered people in the nation -- is home to many Latinos affected by HIV/AIDS." - Bias Against the Transgendered Closes HIV/AIDS Agency.

Memorial - Remembering our Dead: "Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana. - "I Wish I Looked Like Matthew Shephard" A poem by Yosenio Lewis, an amazing Latino trans activist. - Transgender Rememberance Day Activities. - The hidden hate epidemic: Violence against the transgendered is widespread, brutal--and often unnoticed. (The Advocate) "In November, about a month after 21-year-old Matthew Shepherd was pistol-whipped and lashed to a fence on a rural Wyoming road in subfreezing temperatures, Rita Hester, a 34-year-old transgendered woman in Allston, Mass., was stabbed some 20 times in the chest. Just before New Year's Eve, Vianna Faye Williams, a 36-year-old preoperative transsexual in Jersey City, N.J., was stabbed nine times in her back, neck, and chest. In January, Donald Fuller, an 18-year-old cross-dresser who went by the name Lauryn Paige, was found stabbed with his throat cut in a patch of woods in Austin. In February, Houston police reported that an unknown man wearing women's clothing was shot several times in a motel parking lot. In March, Tracey Thompson, a 33-year-old transgendered woman, was beaten on a Georgia country road. All died." - Another transgender murder. - Rash of murders shock community (2002): August was one of the deadliest months on record for Transgender murders. - Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries Demand Justice. Sylvia Rivera Critiques Human Rights Campaign Disinterest. Other Groups Endorse Commemoration for Amanda Milan. - 'Disposable People': A wave of violence engulfs the transgendered, whose murder rate may outpace that of all other hate killings. - Murders of Gender Non-Conforming Youth Documented in New Report.

Amanda Milan was a jet-setting, transgender escort Why did she wind up with a knife in her throat at New York's Port Authority bus terminal? - Remembering Rita Hester: " This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of Rita Hester. Rita, an African-American transsexual woman, was found in her apartment in Allston on November 28, 1998. In the Boston area alone, one transsexual woman, usually of Afro-American decent, has been murdered every year for the last 5 years. Per capita, this is an alarming rate.\

City in Florida Fires Official Who Planned to Change Sex: "LARGO, Fla., March 24 2007 - The longtime city manager here was fired early Saturday, one month after he disclosed his plans to seek a sex change." - Activists: Fired city manager could be transsexual champion: "Steve Stanton loved this city he ran for 14 years. This week, he asked the city to love him back - to accept his plans to pursue sex-change operation and let him keep his $140,000 job as city manager. It didn't." - Fired Fla. transsexual takes case to TV. - Fired Transsexual City Manager Won't Sue: "A city manager fired after revealing his plans to have a sex change said he will not sue the city that fired him and he will begin living as a woman full-time by the end of May."

Jillian Todd Weiss Web Pages: - Dissertation: "The Cutting Edge of Employment Diversity: Transgender Human Resources Policies in U.S. Employers (PDF Download, 2 Megs) (Executive Summary). "The Gender Caste System: Identity, Privacy and Heteronormativity." 10 Law & Sexuality. 123 (2001): 123-86 (PDF Download). The paper was also presented at the XVII Harry Benjamin International Symposium On Gender Dysphoria in Galveston, Texas, October 31-November 4, 2001.

Transgender Legal Links. - The Canadian Task Force For Transgendered Law Reform. - A Bill of Gender Rights. - Trans Across America: "transgenders" are emerging as the newest group to demand equality (Time Magazine). (Time magazine becomes one of the first national publications to present an extensive article on transgender individuals.) - The National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law: Transgender Issues and Sexual Orientation. - Turkish Transsexual Activist Beaten and Arrested by Police N.A. - A Dictionary of Words for Masculine Women. - FTM International. - Transgender Employment Links.

Internet Resources:

Resources from allcommity.com. - Northern Concord (England). - The Gender WEB Home Page. - Mindspring.com - CUAV (Community United Against Violence) - Link groups from transfamily.org. - The International Foundation for Gender Education. - TraVesti Québec. - Jewish Transgender Resources. - The Renaissance Transgender Association, Inc. - Ethnic and Deaf F2M Resources. - Press For Change: Gender Politics Index. - Press For Change: Inersex Books. - Resources for Gender-Nonconforming Children and Trans-Identified and Questioning Youth and Their Allies. - Trans / Butch-Femme - Gender Resources.

From altsex.org: - Articles - Gender Mosaic Transsexual & X-dressing Information. - Resources for transsexual women (male-to-female) and FAQ . - Links to online papers on gender in the ancient world. - Ingersoll Gender Center. - Article links by transfamily.org. - Transgender Youth Articles at youthresource.com. - Topics related to transsexualism. - abgender.com's article index. - Articles related to the Geography of Gender, Race, and Class. - IAIS Intersex Links. - UKIA Link.- World Wide Web Review: Webs of Transgender. - Basic Female to Male Transsexual Resources. - Transgender Aging Network: Elder TG.

Transgender Health Initiative Learning Center: Internet Resources. - Gender and Life's Paths: Transgender related information and resources. Many news items from around the world.

Ottawa Transsexual & Transgender Transition Resources and Support: Site Index. Ottawa Transition Resources - Support Groups - Crisis Support/Legal Resources - Suggested Readings - Useful Links - Events/Community. TransGender Canada.

Transgender-Net.de (German: für transsexuelle, transvestiten und transgenderisten) - International TransGender Links. - The International Journal of Transgenderism. - Information and Resources on Transgender Issues. - TransgenderAsia. - Resources for Young Transsexuals and Their Families. - Transsexual Menace, Toronto.

Movies / Videos / The Arts:

The Ultimate "Planet Out" Guide to Queer Movies (Subject: Transgender). - Transgender Films. - Gender on celluloid: movies that address gender identity issues. - Transgender Cinema. - SF Chronicle Looks Back At Transgender Films. - The list below was compiled from multiple sources which indexed films relating to transgender, transsexuality, sex-change, transvestism, crossdressing, and drag, and it is intended to be a complete index to such films. - (r)Evolution of Gender Exhibition.

You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men [video]. - 1997 - Directed and Produced by Candace Schermerhorn and Bestor Cram (Review: Journal of Sex Research, May, 2001) - Reel transsexuals: 'The Adventures of Sebastian Cole" is latest film portrayal of a transsexual. (The Advocate, May 25, 1999) - Portrait of a man.(transsexual photographer): Born as a woman, an award-winning photographer tells how he became the man he is today. (The Advocate) - Hot Docs kudos for Davis' pic.U.S. filmmaker Kate Davis' transsexual love stow "Southern Comfort" took the top two prizes at the weeklong Hot Docs Intl. Documentary Festival (2001). - Multiple Genders: Mind and Body in Conflict [video]. Produced by Anna Laura Malago. 1997 (Review: Journal of Sex Research, May 2001). - My Mother Frank. Produced by Phaedon Vass, Susan Vass, John Winter, Australia (Review) - Just Like a Woman (Review). Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Review).- Boys Don't Cry - Movie Review.

Counting Past 2 is Canada’s first event created to feature films /videos /performances /spoken word by transsexuals as well as relevant work from intersex and transgendered people... However, rarely is our own work presented to either mainstream, queer, or even transsexual audiences. This has led to a situation in which we are viewed as being incapable of speaking and creating for ourselves. Counting Past 2 seeks to remedy this situation by....

Bibliographies / Abstracts / Conferences

Abstracts From Ingenta.Com & Sage: - ‘Hormones is not magic wands’: Ethnography of a Transgender scene in Oakland, California. - Branding Teena: (Mis)Representations in the Media. - A Psychoanalytic Reading of Transsexual Embodiment. - Building culturally sensitive substance use prevention and treatment programs for transgendered populations. - Teacher Transsexuality: The Illusion of Sexual Difference and the Idea of Adolescent Trauma in the Dana Rivers Case. - Becoming Women: Transgendered Identities, Psychosexual Therapy and the Challenge of Metamorphosis. - ‘I Can Accept My Child is Transsexual but if I Ever See Him in a Dress I’ll Hit Him’: Dilemmas in Parenting a Transgendered Adolescent. - Explaining stable partnerships among FTMs and MTFs: a significant difference? - Engendering homophobia: violence, sexuality and gender conformity.

Abstracts From Ingenta.Com & Sage: - Essentialism, Culture, and Beliefs About Gender Among the Aravanis of Tamil Nadu, India. - The Newhalf Net: Japan's “Intermediate Sex” On-Line. - The semiotics of transgendered sexual identity in the Thai print media: imagery and discourse of the sexual other. - Transgender Theory and Embodiment: the risk of racial marginalisation. - “Brain Says You're a Girl, But I Think You're a Sissy Boy”: Cultural Origins of Transphobia. - 'I am the Prince of Pain, for I am a Princess in the Brain': Liminal Transgender Identities, Narratives and the Elimination of Ambiguities. - For a Sociology of Transsexualism. - Sex and Gender are Different: Sexual Identity and Gender Identity are Different. - A study of the seduction of transsexuals by the image. - Transvestism: A Survey of 1032 Cross-Dressers.

The Third International Congress on Sex and Gender: Index by title to abstracts of papers. - XV Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (Sept. '97) Symposium: ABSTRACTS. - Chronologie et bibliographie représentative du transsexualisme et des pathologies de l'identité sexuelle de 1910 à 1998. - Gendys Conference Index . - 2004, - 2002, - 2000, - 1998, - 1996, - 1994, - 1992, - and 1990 conferences, Speakers and Their Topics with links to some texts. - Gendys' Journal . - The UK's Premier Gender Dysphoria Conference Gendys '98.

Bibliography: Transvestism, transsexualism and transgender issues. - Fiona's Bibliography. - Books on Cross Dressing. - Published Resources for Transgendered Women. - FTM and Related. - Auckland TG Resources Booklist. - Books: Couples Issues. - New books and magazines. - Trans Books: German, French, English. - The Transvestite Bookshop. - Institute of Transsexuality Bookstore. - Transgender Bookstore. - Employer's Gender Identity Disorder Bookstore. - ISNA Intersex Books. - Press For Change: Inersex Books. - Aging in Transgender People: An Annotated Bibliography. - Hermaphrodism: Intersex Bibliography by James Park.

Transgender Bibliography. - Transgender Bibliography. - Amazon: Transgender. - Bibliography on Transgender Issues, HIV and Health Care (Word Download). - Trangender Library. - Lesbian and Gay Aging Issues Network: Transgender. - Bibliography of Asian TG (and TG-related) studies in the humanities and social sciences. 1990-present. - TransBiblio: Transgender Bibliography. - H. Benjamin: The Transsexual phenomenon Bibliography. - Bibliograpgy: Notes on Gender Role Transition. - MtMInFo's Transgender Book and Video List. - Gender Identity Development and Transgender: Asia, Papers, Book Chapters, Web Pages (S Winter). - TransKid' Annotated Bibliography of Autogynephilia and HSTS Research. - Annotated Bibliography of Autogynephilia and HSTS.

Books: Gender and Transgender Theory. - Transgender Book: Scholarly and analytical. - Gender Trespassing on Shared Space. - SIECUS Annotated Bibliographies: Gender Identity. - Links to Reviews of Books on Queer History. - Transtudies: Annotated Bibliography. - Transtudies: Compiled Bibliography. - Variations of Sex & Gender Bibliography. - Transgender Studies Subject Guide. - Butch/FTM Mindmeld Bibliography and Resources. - Gender and Sexualities Bibliography.

Finalists for the annual Lambda Literary Awards: 2007, 2006 (Winners), 2005 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 2004 (Winners & Nominees), 2003 (Winners & Nominees), 2002 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 2001 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 2000 (Winners) (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), Must Scroll), 1999 (Winners & Nominees) (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 1998 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 1997 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 1996 (Winners & Nomineesl), 1992-1995 (Winners & Nominees), 1988-1991 (Winners & Nominees). Categories: Anthology - Arts & Culture - Bisexual - Childrens/Young Adult - Drama/Theater - Humor - LGBT Nonfiction - LGBT Studies - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror - Spirituality - Transgender -- Lesbian Fiction - Lesbian Romance - Lesbian Mystery - Lesbian Poetry - Lesbian Memoir/Biography - Lesbian Erotica - Lesbian Debut Fiction -- Gay Fiction - Gay Romance - Gay Mystery - Gay Poetry - Gay Memoir/Biography - Gay Erotica - Debut Gay Fiction.

Lambda Literary Award (Wikipedia): "Lambda Literary Awards (also known as "Lammies") are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes." Winners from 2002 to 2005 are listed. - Lambda Literary Award Nominees And Winners - Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: 1989-2002.

Bisexuality and Transgenderism: Intersexions of the Others (Haworth Press: Reference, Barnes & Noble Reference, Amazon.com Reference) - 2004 - edited by Jonathan Alexander and Karen Yescavage (Also published as the Journal of Bisexuality, 3(3/4), Haworth Press: Journal Reference - Abstract / Contents: Soon to become available.). - Some papers: Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others. GL vs. BT: The Archaeology of Biphobia and Transphobia Within the U.S. Gay and Lesbian Community. - Pomosexual Play: Going Beyond the Binaristic Limits of Gender? - Bisexual and Transgender Identities in a Nonclinical Sample of North Americans: Suicidal Intent, Behavioral Difficulties, and Mental Health Treatment. - Looking Toward the InterSEXions: Examining Bisexual and Transgender Identity Formation from a Dialectical Theoretical Perspective. - Butch-Femme Interrupted: Angelina Jolie, Bisexuality and the New Butch Femme. - Living More "Like Oneself": Transgender Identities and Sexualities in Japan. - Walking Through Walls: An Immodest Proposal for Transcending Sexual Orientation. - We Are All Others: An Argument for Queer...

Books

Current Concepts in Transgender Identity - 1998- edited by Dallas Denny. - Transgender Nation- 1994 - by Gordene Olga MacKenzie (Contents). - Aspects of Gender: A Study of Crossdressing - 1997 - by Lesley Gordon. - Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism - 1997 - by Pat Califia (Abstract) (Contents & 9 Sample Pages) (Review). - Transexuals Life From Both Sides - 2000 - by Lynn Hubschman (10 Sample Pages). - Transsexualism in Society: A Sociology of Male-To-Female Transsexuals - 1995 - by Frank Lewins. - The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights - 2005 - by Deborah Rudacille.

Horsexe: Essay on Transsexuality - 1990 - by Katherine Millot. - Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender - 1993 - by Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough. (Table of Contents). - Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender - 1995 - by Bernice L. Hausman (Review). - The Transvestite and the Transsexual: Public Categories and Private Identities - 1993 - by Dave King. - Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us - 1994 - by Kate Bornstein (28 Sample Pages) (Review). - Sexual Metamorphosis : An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs - 2005 - by Jonathan Ames.

The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism - 2003 - by J. Michael Bailey. News Items / Commentaries / Analyses / Reviews: Categorically wrong? A Bailey-Blanchard-Lawrence clearinghouse. - Prof's book challenges opinions of human sexuality: Bailey tackles sensitive transsexuality issues; some find his views offensive. - Report on a J. M. Bailey lecture at Stanford University by Joan Roughgarden. - An investigative report into the publication of J. Michael Bailey's book on transsexualism by the National Academies. - Group rescinds honor for disputed book: "The Lambda Literary Foundation announced Friday that it was removing a controversial book about transsexuality, titled "The Man Who Would Be Queen," from a list of finalists for its annual literary awards." - The gay and lesbian "Lambda Literary Foundation" disses all transsexual women by nominating Bailey's book for a GLB'T' literary award!

Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality - 1998 - by Jay Prosser (Abstract) (Review Excerpts). - Male Femaling. A grounded theory approach to cross-dressing and sex-changing - by Richard Ekins (Review). - Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing - 1996 - edited by Richard Ekins, Dave King, David King (Review). - The Uninvited Dilemma: A Question of Gender - 1991 - by Kim Elizabeth Stuart. - The Bliss of Becoming One!: Integrating 'Feminine' Feelings into the Male Psyche Mainstreaming the Gender Community - 1996 - by Rachel Miller (7 Sample Pages). - Body and Soul: Sexuality on the Brink of Change - 1996 - by Anne Stirling Hastings.

Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Nation (An Introduction to the Social Sciences) - 2000 - edited by Kath Woodward, Kathleen M. Woodward, Kathryn Woodward. - Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach - 1985 - by Suzanne J. Kessler, Wendy McKenna (13 Sample Pages). - Postmodern Sexualities - 1996 - by William Simon. - Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female - 1997 - by Phyllis Burke. - Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Sex and Gender - by Elizabeth L. Paul (Overview, Table of Contents). - Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender - 1997 - by Riki Anne Wilchins (Review) (Review). - How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States - 2002 - by Joanne Meyerowitz (Review). - Social Services with Transgendered Youth - 1999 - edited by Gerald P Mallon and Farzana Doctor (Review) (Amazon.com Reference).

Books: - Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality - 1999 - by Anne Fausto-Sterling (Review) (Review: The New England Journal of Medicine) (This article is a version of Chapter One). - Intersex in the Age of Ethics (Ethics in Clinical Medicine Series) edited by Alice Domurat Dreger (Review, Table of Contents) (Related Information). - Lessons From the Intersexed - 1998 - by Suzanne J. Kessler (JAMA Review). - As Nature Made Him: The boy who was raised as a girl - 2000 - by John Colpinto (Editor Comments, Review Excerpts) (Review: NY Times, Must Register, Free) (Excerpt). - Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex - 1998 - by Alice Domurat Dreger (Review) (Review) (MSJAMA Review) (Review) (Amazon.com Reference). - Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dismorphism in Culture and History - 1996 - by Gilbert Herdt (26 Sample Pages).

Books: - Man Enough to be a Woman - 1995 - by Jayne County, with Smith, Rupert (Review). - Change for the Better: The Story of Georgina Beyer As Told To Cathy Casey. - S/He: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes (Dress, Body & Culture) - 1998 - by Claudine Griggs (12 Sample Pages) (Review). - The Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry - 1998 -by Rafael Campo (9 Sample Pages) (Review / Excerpt). - A Man: The Transsexual Journey of an Agent Provocateur - 1994 - by Max Wolf Valerio. - Passage Through Trinidad: Journal of a Surgical Sex Change - 1995 - by Claudine Griggs. - Gina: The Woman Within -2003 - by Gina Large (Summary & Contents) (Author's Web Site).

Books: - Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography.(Review). - The Woman I Was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual Journey - 2001 - by Aleshia Brevard (Review) (12 Sample Pages) (Review). - Dear Sir or Madam: The Autobiography of a Female-To-Male Transsexual- 1996 - by Mark Nicholas, Alban Rees (Table of Contents, 7 Sample pages). - Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual - 1996 - by Geri Nettick with Beth Elliot (Review) (Comments). - Dangerous Games: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer on Death Row Who Changed His Sex and Won Her Freedom - 1993 - by Robert L. Bentley.

Books: - Feminizing Hormonal Therapy For The Transgendered (5th Edition) - 1999 - by Dr. Sheila Kirk (6 Sample Pages) - The Transsexual's Survival Guide II: To Transition & Beyond for Family, Friends, & Employers - 1992 - by Joanne Altman Stringer. - Prisoner of Gender: A Transsexual in the System - 1997 - by Stephanie Castle, Katherin Johnson. - Human Sex Change and Sex Reversal: Transvestism and Transsexualism (Symposium Series, Edwin Mellen Press), V. 45.) - 1998 - by David Brez Carlisle. - In Search of Eve : Transsexual Rites of Passage - 1988 by Anne Bolin (!4 Sample Pages).

Books: - My Husband Wears My Clothes: Crossdressing from the Perspective of a Wife - by Peggy J. Rudd. - Crossdressing With Dignity: The Case for Transcending Gender Lines - by Peggy Rudd (Amazon). - Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls - by Veronica Vera (Review) - The Lazy Crossdresser - by Charles Anders. - Gender Blending : Transvestism (Cross-Dressing), Gender Hersey, Androgyny, Religion & the Cross-Dresser, Transgender Healthcare, Free Expression, Sex - 1997 - edited by Bonnie Bullough, Vern L. Bullough, James Elias (Table of Contents).

Books: - Girlfriend: Men, Women and Drag - 1999 - by Holly Brubach, Michael O'Brien (Photographer) (Review Excerpt & Description) (Review: NY Times, Must Register, Free). - Crossing - A Memoir - by Deirdre N. McCloskey (Review) (Review) (Review: NY Times, Must Register, Free) (Review). - I Am My Own Woman: The Outlaw Life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Berlin's Most Distinguished Transvestite - 1995 - by Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. Translated by Jean Hollander (Review). - Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah - by The Lady Chablis with Theodore Bouloukos (Review) - My Son Divine - by Frances Milstead. -

Books: - Stone Butch Blues -1993 - by Leslie Feinberg (Abstract) (Review). Trans-X-U-all: The Naked Difference by Tracvie O'Keefe and Katrina Fox. - True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism - 1996 - by Mildred L. Brown & Chloe Ann Rounsley (Review). - Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits - by Loren Cameron (Review). - Transmen and Ftms: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities - 1999 - by Jason Cromwell. - FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society - 1999 - by Jamison Green, Holly Devor.

Books: - Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Rupaul (1996) by Leslie Feinberg (Review) (Review). - Drag: A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts - 1994 - by Roger Baker, Peter Burton, and Richard Smith (Abstract). - Lieutenant Nun, Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World - 1996 - by Catalina de Erauso (Review). - Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at the Fin De Siecle - 1999 - edited by Kate More & Stephen Whittle.

Books: - Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America - 1998 - by Will Roscoe (20 Sample Pages) (Exerpt: Kuilix, Pend d'Oreille Warrior Woman. - The Zuni Man-Woman - 1991 - by Will Roscoe (Review). - Girls Will Be Boys and Boys Will Be Girls: Cross-Dressing in Popular Turn of the Century College Fiction - by Sherrie Inness (Review). The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe - 1990 by Rudolf M. Dekker and Lotte C. van de Pol (Review). - Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations - 2000 - by Serena Nanda (Review).

Books: - 'O Au No Keia: Voices from Hawai'i's Mahu and Transgender Communities - 2001 - by Andrew Matzner (Review). - Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality In Thailand - 1995 - by Peter Jackson (Review) - Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India - 1998 - by Serena Nanda. - Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-sex Relationships in Thailand (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning & Memory) - 2004 - by Megan J. Sinnott (Review). - The third sex: kathoey: Thailand’s ladyboys - 2003 - by Richard Totman (Review).

Books: - The Last Time I Wore a Dress - 1997 - by Daphne Scholinski with Jane Meredith Adams (Review). - Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety - 1991 - by Marjorie Garber (Review). - The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe - by Rudolf M. Dekker and Lotte C. van de Pol (Review). - From Toads to Queens: Transvestism in a Latin American Setting - 1999 - by Jacobo Schifter (Review) - Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes - 1998 - by Don Kulick (Link to another review). - Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment among Transsexual Men - by - Henry Rubin (Review).

Books: - Gender Loving Care: A Guide to Counseling Gender-Variant Clients - 1999 - by Randi Ettner (16 Sample Pages). Respect and Equality: Transsexual and Transgender Rights - 2002 - by Stephen Whittle. - Transsexual Workers: An Employer's Guide - 1998 - by Janis Walworth. - Working with a Transsexual: A Guide for Coworkers - by Janis Walworth (Review). - Medical, Legal and Workplace Issues For The Transsexual - 1995 - by Sheila Kirk (Table of Contents) (9 Sample Pages). - Coping With Crossdressing - 1991 - by Joann Roberts (Table of Contents). - Transgender Care - 1998 - by Gianna E. Israel and Donald E. Tarver II (Abstract and Table of Contents) (Review) (Excerpt). - Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones by Mary Boenke, Ed. (Review) (Review) (Excerpt) (Review). - Mom, I need to be a girl - by Just Evelyn: editor Dawn Trook (Review) (Contents, Comments, Introduction). - Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods—My Mother’s, My Father’s, and Mine - 2001 - by Noelle Howey (Review) (Review) (Excerpt). - Female-To-Male Transsexualism: Historical, Clinical, and Theoretical Issues - 1983 - by Leslie Martin Lothstein. -

Books: - Honey, Honey, Miss Thang: Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets - 1996 - by Leon Pettiway (Review). - Lesbians Talk: Transgender - 1996 - by Zachary I. Nataf (Review). - Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People.- 2000 - by Viviane K. Namaste. (Review; Journal of Sex Research, August, 2001). - Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely - 1998 - by Kate Bornstein (Review).

Books: - La Mascarade des Sexes: Fétichisme, inversion, et travestissement rituels - 1989 - par Stéphane Breton. (Abstract). - L'illusion Transsexuelle - 1994 - by Patricia Mercader (Abstract). - Changer De Sexe - 1997 - par Collette Chiland.

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