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Books
Non-fiction books, biographies, auto-biographies, and memoirs on the transmasculine experience.


True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century by Emily Skidmore
Eighteen stories of how trans men at the turn of the 20th century assimilated into their communities.
Feb 52 min read


From Female to Male- the life of Jack Bee Garland by Lou Sullivan
Biography detailing the life of Jack Bee Garland -- author, nurse, adventurer, and lover of men.
Dec 11, 20251 min read


Re-dressing America's Frontier Past (2011) by Peter Boag
(via Google Books) Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys...
Aug 14, 20251 min read


Female-to-male transsexualism: historical, clinical, and theoretical issues (1983)
This 358 page book details Dr. Leslie Martin Lothman's research into what was referred to as "female transsexuals".
Aug 14, 20251 min read


Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits (book) by Loren Cameron
Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits is a collection of autobiographical portraits and writing about transition by photographer Loren...
Jun 4, 20251 min read


A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar by Harry Nicholas
In this raw, intimate and unflinchingly honest book, we follow Harry Nicholas as he navigates the sometimes fraught and contradictory worlds of contemporary gay culture as a trans gay man.
May 28, 20251 min read


Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
"Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory – yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of hagiography as a genre
May 28, 20251 min read


FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society by Aaron Devor
" In this ground-breaking study, Aaron Devor provides a compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences of forty-five trans men. Emerging into 21st-century political and social conversations, questions persist. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as men? What do they do about it? How do their families respond? Who are their lovers? What does it mean for everyone else? To answer these and other questions, Devor spent years compiling in-depth in
May 28, 20251 min read


Becoming a Visible Man (2nd ed.) by Jamison Green
Leading transsexual activist Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual experience.
May 28, 20251 min read
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
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