Transgender
- A person who lives as a member of a gender other than that expected based on anatomical sex. Sexual orientation varies and is not dependent on gender identity.
Genderqueer
- A gender variant person whose gender identity is neither male nor female, is between or beyond genders, or is some combination of genders. Often includes a political agenda to challenge gender stereotypes and the gender binary system.
LGBTRC Library Resources
Magazine: Transgender Tapestry
Books:
- The Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender by Martine Rothblatt (1996)
- As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto (2001)
- Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green (2004)
- Bisexuality and Transgenderism: Intersexions of the Others (2004)
- Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender by Sally R. Munt (1997)
- Changing sex : Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender by Bernice L. Hausman (1995)
- Crossing: A Memoir by Deirdre N. McCloskey (2000)
- Dagger: On Butch Women by Lily Burana (1994)
- Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Noelle Howey (2002)
- Femme by Laura Harris (1997)
- Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go (2002)
- From Man to Woman: The Transgender Journey of Virginia Prince by Richard F. Docter (2004)
- Gender Blending: Transvestism (Cross-Dressing), Gender Hersey, Androgyny, Religion & the Cross-Dresser, Transgender Healthcare, Free Expression, Sex Change Surgery... (1997)
- Gender Loving Care: A Guide to Counseling Gender-Variant Clients by Randi Ettner (1999)
- Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein (1995)
- GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary (2002)
- Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self by Sharon E. Preves (2003)
- Intersex in the Age of Ethics (1999)
- Lessons from the Intersexed by Suzanne J. Kessler (1998)
- Male to Female: La Cage Aux Folles by Vicki Goldberg (1995)
- Masculinizing Hormonal Therapy for the Transgendered by Sheila Kirk (1996)
- My Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein (1997)
- Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Men by Anne Fausto-Sterling (1992)
- Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude by Amy Bloom (2002)
- The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (1992)
- The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals by Dean Kotula (2002)
- Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender by Riki Wilchins (1997)
- A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle (2003)
- Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism by Pat Califia (2003)
- Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling (2000)
- Stone Butch Blues: A Novel by Leslie Feinberg (2004)
- Sugar and Spice and Puppy Dog Tails: Growing Up Intersexed by Katherine Connella (2001)
- The Tranny Guide (2004)
- Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones, 2nd Edition (2003)
- Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg (1999)
- Transgender Care: Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information, and Personal Accounts by Gianna E. Israel (1998)
- Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg (1997)
- Transsexual Workers: An Employer's Guide by Janis Walworth (2003)
- Tritiya-Prakriti: People of the Third Sex by Amara Das Wilhelm (2006)
- True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism--For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals by Mildred L. Brown (2003)
- Trumpet: A Novel by Jackie Kay (2000)
- Working with a Transsexual: A Guide for Coworkers by Janis Walworth (1999)
DVDs:
- Aggressives
- All About My Mother
- Beautiful Boxer
- Boys Don't Cry
- The Brandon Teena Story
- Cockettes
- Crying Game
- Different for Girls
- Further Tales of the City
- Gendernauts
- Girls Will Be Girls
- Hedwig & the Angry Inch
- Iron Ladies
- Ma Vie En Rose (My Life In Pink)
- More Tales of the City
- Normal
- Paris is Burning
- Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Soldier's Girl
- Sordid Lives
- Southern Comfort
- Tales of the City
- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
- Transamerica
- Transgeneration
- Venus Boyz