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THE ARCHIVE

Profiles, articles, essays, books, and more written about transmasculine topics, written (mostly) by trans guys. 

 

The main part of the Trans Guy Archive is to research and catalog the trans men/masculine individuals of historical record, seen below in the "Profiles" section. This section is divided by time period: Antiquity, Medieval, Early Modern, Victorian, Modern, & Contemporary. The goal of the Profiles section is to create an easily accessible database for present-day trans guys to read and learn about their history. The scope of this section includes: transsexual & transgender men, Female Husbands, "female transsexuals", male impersonators -- or simply, anyone who was AFAB but presented long-term as male/masculine. This scope is open to be altered.

 

Other articles and essays span a variety of topics, ranging from a "how-to" guide on medical injections to why trans guys like puppy play so much. Articles and essays published by the Trans Guy Archive are interdisciplinary and will encompass a variety of subjects and opinions, such as the history of Female Husbands, pregnancy as a trans guy, drag king invisibility, and more. It is the goal of the Trans Guy Archive to foster a greater understanding of transmasculine issues while also giving emerging scholars and researchers a space to publish and examine the work of their contemporaries.

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Daunted by searching the archive of artifacts? Check out the Quick Links page.

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Want to submit works to the Trans Guy Archive? Click here!

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May 28, 20251 min read
◉BOOKS◉

The Phallus Palace by Dean Kotula

CONTENT WARNING: This book contains graphic, explicit images of FTM surgeries, such as double mastectomy and phalloplasty. Use the Index if you need to skip these pages. Please also note that aforementioned surgeries have come a long way since the early 2000s. Do not let the depictions here be representative of all modern-day FTM surgeries. --- The Phallus Palace is a coffee table anthology book published by Dean Kotula in 2002. The book contains a number of interviews and p

 
 
 
May 28, 20251 min read
Historical

Before We Were Trans (book)

Before We Were Trans is "A groundbreaking  global history of gender nonconformity. Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives. Before We Were Trans   illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have d

 
 
 
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