Reading/watching list for transsexuals and our allies :)
Compiled with the help of some trans friends, forever a work in progress. I am british so some resources may only apply to british trans people (specifically those on healthcare). Links are added for free versions where avaliable.
Books
- The Transgender Issue- Shon Faye
- Delusions Of Gender- Cordelia Fine
- Trans Liberation-Leslie Feinberg
- Detransition, Baby! -Torrey Peters
- Whipping Girl-Julia Serano
- Who's afraid of gender?- Judith Butler
- Stone Butch Blues -Leslie Feinberg
- The stonewall reader -New York Public Library
- Transvestia magazine (magazine running from 1960- 1986 centred on crossdressers and trans peoples' experiences)
Documentaries + video essays
- Meet the girl who became a man (1937)
- Behind every good man (1967)
- I emailed my doctor 133 times: the crisis in the british healthcare system -Philosophytube
- Shinjuku boys
- Transsexual Menace
- Southern Comfort
- Paris is burning-dir. Jennie Livingston
- The History of transphobia -Mia Mulder
- There have alwaya been trans people -Step Back
- Will and Harper- dir. Josh Greenbaum
- Transsexuals and suffering-Mia Mulder
Podcasts
- NYC trans oral history project
- The cass review -Sci guys pod
- The science of detransition- Sci guys pod
- FTM Get-Together talks on safe sex for trans men -Sterling A. Winterhalter, Lou Sullivan