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Series
Tales of the city volume 9
Language
English
Description
Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.
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Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This “insightful and instructive primer” debunks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about transgender issues—“buy this book and share it with [your] whole family” (Bust)
From Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner to Thomas Beatie (“the pregnant man”) and transgender youth, coverage of trans lives has been exploding—yet so much misinformation persists. Bringing together...
From Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner to Thomas Beatie (“the pregnant man”) and transgender youth, coverage of trans lives has been exploding—yet so much misinformation persists. Bringing together...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Transgender icons Gigi Gorgeous and Gottmik share their unique stories and advice from their trans journeys in this fabulous, fashion-forward guide to all things gender expression. Gigi Gorgeous and Gottmik have inspired millions online, on reality TV, and in an award-winning documentary with their honest, hilarious, and GORGEOUS tales of what it means to be true to oneself. Join the conversation with Gigi and Gottmik as they share their valuable...
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English
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Before speaking at a national political convention about her experiences as a transgender person, the author struggled with the decision to come out - not just to her family but to the students at her university, where she was serving as student body president. She'd known she was a girl from her earliest memories, but it wasn't until a Facebook post announcing her truth went viral that she realized the impact her story could have on the country....
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"When Annabelle learns that her father shares something big--and surprising--in common with her new nonbinary friend, she begins to see herself, and her family, in a whole new light"--
8) Variations
Author
Publisher
Influx Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Using fiction inspired by found material and real-life events, Variations explores the history of transgender Britain.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"There is no one way to be transgender. Transgender and gender non-conforming people have many different ways of understanding their gender identities. Only recently have sex and gender been thought of as separate concepts, and we have learned that sex (traditionally thought of as physical or biological) is as variable as gender (traditionally thought of as social). While trans people share many common experiences, there is immense diversity within...
11) I am Jazz!
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Presents the story of a transgender child who traces her early awareness that she is a girl in spite of male anatomy and the acceptance she finds through a wise doctor who explains her natural transgender status.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community. This well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and its unique experiences of discrimination. Chapters introduce transgenderism and its psychological, physical, and social processes. They describe the coming out process and its effect on family and friends, the relationship between sexual orientation...
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Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War...
Author
Publisher
One World
Language
English
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"[A novel] about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex..."--
Reese had what previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Ames thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier,...
15) Dreadnought
Author
Series
Nemesis (April Daniels) volume 1
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and dies right in fron of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantel to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny's body into what she's always thought it should be. Now there's no hiding that she's a girl. It...
Author
Publisher
Fleet
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling about our sex, known as a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our biological sex. Professor Kathleen Stock surveys the philosophical ideas that led to this point, and closely interrogates each one, from De Beauvoir's statement that, 'One is not born, but rather becomes a woman' (an assertion she contends...
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Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"The Maines were a middle-class, hard-working, politically conservative New England couple whose lives felt complete when they adopted identical twin sons. As toddlers, Jonas was the son Kelly and Wayne Maines expected, but Wyatt was only interested in girls' clothes and toys. By age five, this conflict was tearing Wyatt--and the family--apart. Today, Wyatt is Nicole. She and Jonas are now graduating from high school. This is the story of a journey...
Author
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Although transgender people are increasingly represented in academic studies and popular culture, they rarely have the opportunity to add their own voices to the conversation. In this remarkable book, the author records the stories of more than thirty Americans who identify as transgender. They range in age from fifteen to seventy-two; come from twenty-five different states and a wide array of racial, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds; and...
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