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Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits is a collection of autobiographical portraits and writing about transition by photographer Loren Cameron. The book also features vignettes and information about other trans men and their experiences, as well as photos detailing surgical procedures, such as metoidioplasty and phalloplasty. As a note for the surgical photos: all of them are healed; though the book was published in 1996, so both surgeries have come a long way since then in terms of usability and aesthetic appeal. You can access the entire book for free by clicking here. Portrait of author Loren Cameron injecting testosterone. Accompanying caption to photo at right. Metoidioplasty: Subject 1 Accompanying caption for photo below. Metoidioplasty: Subject 2

Original Plumbing was a quarterly theme-based print publication dedicated to trans male culture. Created by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos, Original Plumbing was published for ten years in twenty issues between 2009 and 2019. Each magazine issue covered a wide variety of topics including events and pressing issues to the transmasculine community. While Original Plumbing is no longer producing original issues, you can still purchase many of their older issues, as well as a coffee table book containing some "best of" parts of the magazine along with an introduction by activist Tiq Milan and other writing by transmasculine authors. The archived website, along with the magazines/book/stickers for purchase, can be found here by clicking this link. You can also view the majority of Original Plumbing's issues on the Internet Archive by clicking here. The cover of Issue 10 of Original Plumbing; "The Jock Issue"

Note: this book is not trans guy-specific 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 defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive  trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Before We Were Trans transports us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to early America, and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures." Click here to read on TransReads .

Written by trans activist Lou Sullivan in 1980, "The unique problems and needs of the female-to-male transsexual and crossdresser have largely been ignored in the literature to date. One must plow through volumes of material directed to the male-to-female in order to find a few sentences concerning the female-to-male. When the female-to-male does find something, she will most likely read that someone with her feelings is “non-existent,” especially if she is a transvestite or a transsexual with non-textbook inclinations. Is it because the male-to-female is more visible, vocal, and numerous that he is granted more notice and acceptance in the medical world? Possibly. In the early research and study of transsexualism, only 25% of the transsexuals coming to the attention of the medical world were females. Now the professional community acknowledges the female-to-male makes up an even 50% of the total transsexuals. However, even now, the female-to-male transvestite is said to be non-existent. Maybe because she is less visible, vocal, and more closeted, guilt-ridden. This pamphlet is compiled to give attention to the female-to-male so sorely lacking in information on transvestism and transsexualism." Read here on TransReads . Illustration of Charley Wilson, from Sullivan's pamphlet.

CONTENT WARNING: This book contains graphic images of FTM surgeries. Use the Index if you need to skip these pages. The Phallus Palace is a coffee table anthology book written by Dean Kotula in 2002. The book contains a number of interviews and perspectives from real trans men at the time, as well as conversations with medical professionals. The file size is rather large (~60 MB). The book is broken into six parts: Perspectives and Viewpoints I The Men (Post-Transition photographs) Perspectives and Viewpoints II The Surgeries - this part contains the surgery images! Gender Memories Perspectives and Viewpoints III Click here to read on TransReads.

"From the publisher: “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, ranging from encounters with prejudice and strained relationships with family to the development of an FTM community and the realities of surgical sex reassignment. Offers recollections of Green’s own experiences-including his childhood struggles with identity and his years as a lesbian parent prior to his sex-reassignment surgery; examines transsexualism as a human condition, and sex reassignment as one of the choices that some people feel compelled to make in order to manage their gender variance. The 2nd edition has been thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded to reflect political, cultural, and linguistic changes as well as concerns and issues that have developed since the original text was published in 2004.” Click to read here on TransReads. Cover page of Green's book

" 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 interviews and researching the lives of transsexual and transgender people. Here, he traces the everyday and significant events that coalesce into trans identities, culminating in gender and sex transformations. Using trans men’s own words as illustrations, Devor looks at how childhood, adolescence, and adult experiences with family members, peers, and lovers work to shape and clarify their images of themselves as men. With a new introduction, Devor positions the volume in twenty-first century debates of identity politics and community-building and provides a window into his own self-exploration as a result of his research." Click to read here on TransReads. Portrait of Aaron Devor by Blake Little (2020)

EISBN: 978-90-485-4026-6 "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 integrally resistant to limiting binaristic categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection showcases scholarship by emerging trans and genderqueer authors, as well as the work of established researchers. Working at the vanguard of historical trans studies, these scholars demonstrate the vital and vitally political nature of their work as medievalists. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography enables the re-creation of a lineage linking modern trans and genderqueer individuals to their medieval ancestors, providing models of queer identity where much scholarship has insisted there were none, and re-establishing the place of non-normative gender in history." You can also access the book by... Reading it for free on JSTOR Buying it from Amsterdamn University Press Buying it on a wide variety of other websites Cover page.

"‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of what it is to be trans, but nothing really that encapsulates what is it to be both – to exist in the hazy terrain between.’ After his relationship with his girlfriend of 5 years ended, Harry realised he was a single adult for the first time – not only that, but a single, transmasculine and newly out gay man. Despite knowing it was the right decision, the reality of his new situation was terrifying. How could he be a gay man, when he was still learning what it was to be a man? Would the gay community embrace him or reject him? What would gay sex be like? And most importantly, would finding love again be possible? In this raw, intimate and unflinchingly honest book, we follow Harry as he navigates the sometimes fraught and contradictory worlds of contemporary gay culture as a trans gay man, from Grindr, dating and gay bars, to saunas, sex and ultimately, falling in love. Harry’s brave and uplifting journey will show you there is joy in finding who you are." Click here to read on TransReads.