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| <IMG SRC="library/graphics/spacer.gif">Welcome to the official bookstore for TransFamily of Cleveland. Monies earned from our association with Amazon.com contribute to TransFamily Of Cleveland fund raising. <P> | |
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| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/051759997X/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Apartheid of Sex : A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender</B></a><br> | |
| by Martine Rothblatt <br>Makes a case for the adoption of a new sexual model that accommodates every shade of gender identity. She discusses legal and scientific aspects of sex and sex roles, compares sexual segregation and gay, straight, and transgender equality to racial apartheid and the civil rights movement, and proposes a chromatic scale of shades of gender difference. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573440620/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Body Alchemy : Transsexual Portraits</B></a><br> | |
| by Loren Cameron<br>Excellent pictorial autobiography of an FTM. Includes pictures and quotes from other FTMs.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060192119/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>As Nature Made Him : The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl</B></a><br> | |
| By John Colapinto<br> | |
| A mesmerizing story of a medical tragedy and its traumatic results.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003CWN3/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Boys Don't Cry</B></a><br> | |
| Directed by Kimberly Peirce<br>Starring Hilary Swank and Chloë Sevigny. On DVD, color, widescreen presentation.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003CWN2/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Boys Don't Cry</B></a><br> | |
| Directed by Kimberly Peirce<br>Starring Hilary Swank and Chloë Sevigny. On VHS, color, pan&scan.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000035P98/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>The Brandon Teena Story</B></a><br> | |
| Directed by Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir<br> On VHS, color, full screen.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000035P9B/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>The Brandon Teena Story</B></a><br> | |
| Directed by Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir<br> On DVD, color, full screen. Extras include a "where are they now" section plus internet web links.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385311834/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Brain Sex : The Real Difference Between Men and Women</B></a><br> | |
| by Anne, Ph.D. Moir, David Jessel <br>This book is VERY HIGHLY recommended. Has very interesting explanations of how and why things may have occurred. Easy to understand. It is about the author's theory that gender identity develops from conception with the pairing of parental chromosomes. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822316927/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Changing Sex : Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender</B></a><br> | |
| by Bernice L. Hausman <br>Author's agenda is to prove that transsexualism is only a medical | |
| invention; denies any brain differences NOT recommended. It appears to be historical but it has the main aim of discounting a TG's feelings. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1886094519/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Confessions of a Gender Defender : A Psychologist's Reflections on Life Among the Transgendered</B></a> by Randi Ettner<br>Dr. Ettner's insightful comments on the transgender condition.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812214315/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender </B></a><br> | |
| by Vern L. Bullough, Bonnie Bullough (Editor) <br> | |
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| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0962676233/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Crossdressers : And Those Who Share Their Lives </B></a><br> | |
| by Peggy J. Rudd <br>Author is a genetic female married to a transgendered man. Relationships, pictures, and some religious considerations. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1895590035/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Feelings : a transexual's explanation of a baffling condition</B></a><br> | |
| by Stephanie Castle<br>Author made m2f transition in her late 60's. Book has much discussion relating to the common questions that are continually asked. Thorough.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555834914/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Friends and Family: True | |
| Stories of Gay America's Straight Allies</B></a><br> | |
| by Dan Woog<IMG SRC="http://www.transfamily.org/library/graphics/new.gif"><br> | |
| Newly published with major contributions from Bob & Karen Gross.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555831508/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>From Female to Male : The Life of Jack Bee Garland</B></a><br> | |
| by Louis Sullivan <br>Famous f2m of 1930's. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226432068/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Gender : An Ethnomethodological Approach</B></a><br> | |
| by Suzanne J. Kessler, Wendy McKenna<br> "Letter from Rachel" in index especially helpful. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679757015/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Gender Outlaw : On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us </B></a><br> | |
| by Kate Bornstein <br>Appreciated for theory, but not recommended for anyone not already pro-transgender. Non-fiction. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0231084676/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Hollywood Androgyny </B></a><br> | |
| by Rebecca Bell-Metereau<br>Covers only movies and not all of them. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/006251623X/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Is It a Choice? : Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gay and Lesbian People </B></a><br> | |
| by Eric Marcus <br>Provides insightful, no-nonsense answers to hundreds of the most commonly asked questions about homosexuality. Offering frank insight on everything you've always wanted-and needed-to know about same-gender relationships, coming out, family roles, politics, and much more.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0966723708/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>A Journey to Moriah </B></a><br> | |
| by Gary Pool and Rhea Murray<br> | |
| One woman's struggle against the pressures of church and friends as she stands up for her gay son. A moving true story.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801849845/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Mary Diana Dods : A Gentleman and a Scholar</B></a><br> | |
| by Betty T. Bennett<br>A work of scholarly literary detection to reveal that a close male associate of Mary Shelley was really a woman. Marred only slightly by the author's cluelessness about Transgenderism. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1563334356/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Mirrors : Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual </B></a><br> | |
| by Geri Nettick<br> | |
| The alternately heartbreaking and empowering story of one M2F's long road to full selfhood. Even after coming to terms with her own gender orientation, and taking steps to correct it, she still fought to be accepted by the lesbian feminist community to which she felt she belonged.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0966327209/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Mom, I Need To Be A Girl</B></a><br> | |
| by Just Evelyn<br> | |
| The textbook for coming out, written by a mom for other parents.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571162517/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>My Story </B></a><br> | |
| by Caroline Cossey<br>Autobiography of a British M2F who becomes an international model (even a James Bond "Bond Girl") May be self-serving but also fascinating reading. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0921556365/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Nine Lives : The Autobiography of Erica Rutherford</B></a><br> | |
| by Erica Rutherford <br>Recommended. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312244894/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Out of the Ordinary : Essays on Growing Up With Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents</B></a><br> | |
| Edited by Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels<br>20 essays from children of homosexual or gender-altering parents. Amazon's review says: <I>While hearing "faggot" yelled at you in a high school corridor would upset almost anyone, here is evidence that hearing "Your father's a faggot" isn't nearly as bad, and that you might find yourself levelheadedly retorting, "No, my father's a transgendered lesbian." </I><P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471021520/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>The Other Side of the Closet : The Coming-Out Crisis for Straight Spouses and Families </B></a> by Amity Pierce Buxton<br>This book was written for the straight spouse of a gay/lesbian, although some of the issues are common. Dr. Buxton analyzes six key issues a straight spouse faces when a partner `comes out' including damaged sexuality, threatened marital relationships, conflicting spouse/parent roles, devalued self-concept, destroyed integrity and shattered belief systems. Dr. Buxton has spoken at TransFamily. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1889829005/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>The Preacher's Son </B></a> by Marc Adams<br>"The Preacher's Son is my autobiography about growing up gay the son of a fundamentalist Baptist preacher in rural Pennsylvania. It chronicles my employment by and attendance at Jerry Falwell's University and eventually my coming to terms with who I was all along. I originally started writing <I>The Preacher's Son</I> as guidebook to help those trying to "cure" themselves of homosexuality. I believed at that time that I was changed. Now the book is finished and bear the TRUTH about begin gay and about fundamentalist Christianity. I am committed to spending the rest of my life sharing my story and making sure that gay and lesbian youth don't feel that they are worthless or alone."<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1563410907/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Read My Lips : Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender </B></a><br> | |
| by Riki Anne Wilchins<br>A passionate, witty, and extraordinarily intelligent look at how society not only creates men and women--ignoring the fluidity of maleness and femaleness in most people--but also explains how those categories generate crisis for most individuals. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1563410591/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>S/He</B></a><br> | |
| by Minnie Bruce Pratt <br>About Leslie Feinberg, a bi-gendered author, by her partner. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671886096/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Sacred Country : A Novel</B></a><br> | |
| by Rose Tremain <br>Fictional historical novel about an F2M, beginning in the 1950's in Britain and ending in the 1980's in the USA.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812880757/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Second Serve </B></a><br> | |
| by Renee Richards<br>Written with John Ames. One of the classic early autobiographies. <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807046159/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture</B></a><br> | |
| by Walter L. Williams <br>Wonderful discussion of Native American acceptance and even reverence of transgendered people. "I love particularly the idea that the more different and unique someone is the more special they are, because they have more to teach the rest of us" <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060964049/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Tales of the City </B></a><br> | |
| by Armistead Maupin<br>Series of 6 lighthearted books, mostly about gay issues, but includes a very central transsexual character who holds the others together. "Highly Recommended" but deals mostly with TS rather than TG issues. "They will refresh your spirits." <P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0966327217/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones</B></a><br> | |
| by Mary Boenke.<br> | |
| Contains many fasinating real life stories about families coming to acceptance with a transgendered loved one. Includes the story of TransFamily founders Bob and Karen Gross.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807762725/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Transsexual Empire : The Making of the She-Male</B></a><br> | |
| by Janice G. Raymond<br>Was "recommended" as least favorite TG book due to author's anger toward TS persons. Author argues that transsexuals are a modern, medical creation. | |
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| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/188071504X/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>The Transsexual's Survival Guide : To Transition & Beyond </B></a><br> | |
| by Joann Altman Stringer <br>A realistic and thorough guide of all the realities for transsexuals planing to transition.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807079413/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman</B></a><br> | |
| by Leslie Feinberg<br>Well illustrated chronicle of transgendered people through out time and across cultures The factional references are fascinating, especially concerning Joan of Arc. BUT it is also a Marxist diatribe. | |
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| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0609604074/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Trans-Sister Radio</B></a><br> | |
| by Chris A. Bohjalian<br>Excellent popular fiction. The author has done his homework (Drs. Biber and Kirk served as consultants) and paints an honest portrait of a transsexual with a straight partner.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0787902713/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>True Selves</B></a><br> | |
| by Mildred L. Brown and Chloe Ann Rounsley <br>An excellent book, written for parents, spouses, partners, friends, and co-workers of transgendered individuals.<P> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415919517/transfamilyofcle" target="mainbody"><B>Vested Interests : Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety</B></a><br> | |
| by Marjorie Garber<br>On tranvestitism; no mention of personal identity or gender concerns, but fascinating from a feminist and theoretical point of view.<P> | |
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| <CENTER><H3>Other Recommended Titles, Not Available On Amazon</H3></CENTER> | |
| Textbook. <I><B>Gender 101</B></I>. IFGE. Through the shared experiences of some | |
| leaders in the TG community | |
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| Coleman, MD, Vernon. <I><B>Men in Dresses</B></I>. Barnstaple, Devon, England | |
| Trinity Place Publisher: . Cross-dressing seen as an excellent stress reducer; | |
| safer than drinking, smoking, or taking pills. (This is an English book and | |
| does not appear to be available in the US.) Book reviewed in April "Emerald | |
| City" Newsletter. | |
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| Elizabeth, Sister Mary. <I><B>Legal Aspects of TS</B></I>. J2CP:San Juan Capistrano, | |
| CA: 1990. Carefully documented information about most legal hurdles. | |
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| Linden, Vanessa & Kay. <I><B>Life with Vanessa: Straight Talk About | |
| Transgenderism in a Caring, Loving Relationship</B></I>. Title and author may | |
| not be correct, publisher/year unknown. | |
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