Growing up transgender is difficult. In the 1960s no one talks about people who want to be a different gender. Jill tries to make sense of her self, her family, and the events swirling around her. Friends pull her to a degree of happiness and sanity, into peer helping and then psychology. As a man, she falls in love and develops a career as a school psychologist. She appears a successful man, until near death experiences remind her of what is important, and she embarks, at age 50, to becom...

ANDY TO AMELIE:  A saga of gender transformation in three-parts: 1. Andy, a bullied kid for most of his 18 years, is an accidental witness to a gang killing in the mean streets of his neighborhood in Capitol City. Spotted by the shooters, he escapes by the skin of his teeth when he finds an open basement window in a dark alley. There he meets the tall and elegant actress, Stella, who devises a way for him to escape the area and take him home with her. Facing the dilemma of b...

***Alice in Genderland***is the first ever memoir by a crossdresser who is not content to live behind closed doors—and who takes it much further than his straighter, more circumspect peers might ever care to go. Most of the time, Harvard-educated psychiatrist Richard Novic is Rick, a caring doctor at the office and a loving husband and father at home. But one night a week, he is Alice, a brave trans woman about town, shopping, dining, dancing, and more.In contrast to the life he le...

Boys who play with Barbie dolls. Girls who join the football team. What is gender? What are gender roles? What's the difference between being a tomboy and being transgender? Is it possible to be in the wrong body? Explore the answers to these questions with an in-depth look at what it means to be transgender, based on the personal experiences of the men and women who have taken steps to transition. Learn from the experiences of transgender young people who make the significant choice to li...

"There are plenty of stories about how transvestite and transgender women come out to friends and loved ones. Some go well and some, well … you can imagine, some dont always work out as planned. A lot of our work with trans people has been to help them express their identity to the world. Often this includes expressing who they are to friends and loved ones. Weve identified all the key steps that lead to a successful coming out and distilled them into this concise little ebook."

At times in the course of human existence there arises a curiosity. A reality which defies a rational explanation. A bend in the 'norm'. Some may look at this as an aberrant mutation, too unique to be taken seriously.Prepare to enter a gentle twilight zone between the gender norms, a very strange tale indeed.

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, and gender and the differences betw...

"This is where sex and gender collide, then ricochet like fragments of heart rending shrapnel. Rarely has a book about lust been full of so much love, conflict, and intelligence. If you think you already know what's in these stories, or you think you don't need to know, you're wrong."—Patrick Califa, author of Sex Changes: The Politics of TransgenderismExploring the crossroads of gender and sexuality, Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Bina...

Candid, first-hand accounts of couples who stay together despite highly emotional gender issues.Head Over Heels gives voice to thirty ordinary women who live extraordinary lives as partners to crossdressers, transgenderists, and male-to-female transsexuals. These unique women discuss, with honesty and great candor, how they first learned of their partners’ gender issues, how they’ve coped with the emotions that followed, how they’ve dealt with concerns about privacy/secrec...

When your beautiful son comes to you and says he has had feelings of suicide, your heart skips a beat. You do whatever it takes to get him help. When your beautiful son comes to you and says he wants to become a woman, your world is suddenly turned upside down. A million thoughts invade your mind. Fear becomes your constant companion, and tears swell up inside you every time you think of what could be waiting ahead. You cant help feeling pride in your child for showing the kind of courage ...

This valuable book is an easy-to-use, practical guide on how to dress as a woman. Whether you are one of the thousands of people who simply like to cross dress or are beginning the transition to becoming a woman, this is the book for you.Nothing explains a book better than the people who have read it. Here are extracts from just some of the many unsolicited testimonials that the authors have received for this book: Quite definitely the most valuable resource I have ever seen for t-people. Tha...

What he did to her was unspeakable; what they did to him/her was even worse. A man's fiancee is raped. The man captures the rapist, and uses hormone therapy to turn the rapist into a shemale. Unspeakable things happen.