Recommended Reading

Here are a few of my favorites and those that have been most impactful for my clients.

You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery by Dara Hoffman-Fox

Raising My Rainbow by Lori Duron

Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

The Conscious Parent's Guide to Gender identity by Darlene Tando, LCSW

Gender Identities in A Globalized World by Ana Marta Gonzalez

Two Spirit People edited by Wesley Thomas

Transforming Families : Real Stories about Transgendered Loved Ones by Mary Boenke

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jenny Finney Boylan

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Gender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg

Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam

Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men by Lori Girshick

Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein

Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green

Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender Variant People and Their Families by Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW

Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Journey by Thomas Beattie

She’s Not The Man I Married by Helen Boyd

The Transgender Child by Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper

Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present by Neil Miller

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