This list of transgender publications includes books, magazines, and academic journals about transgender people, culture, and thought.
Books Some publishers of transgender-related books include Trans-Genre Press, Topside Press, and Transgress Press.
Non-fiction Work Year Author Notes References Transidentity2022 Hans-Werner Gessmann/Vishal Lohchab ACT For Gender Identity: The Comprehensive Guide2020 Alex Stitt American Teenager2024Nico LangFootprints of a Queer History: Life Stories from Gujarat2022Maya Sharma2023 Rainbow Award for Nonfiction Winner Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us1994 Hijab Butch Blues2023Lamya HHistories of the Transgender Child2018Jules Gill-PetersonWon 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction Mom, I Need to Be a Girl1998 Just Evelyn Memoir from the point of view of the mother. X Marks The Spot: An Anthology Of Nonbinary Experiences2019 Theo Hendrie (editor) Essays and poetry from nonbinary people for nonbinary people. Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law2011 Nominated for a 2011 Lambda Literary Award. Raising Ryland2015 Redefining Realness2014 Memoir Third Sex and Human Rights1999 Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day2025, Graphic novel anthology Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue1999 Trans/Rad/Fem2025Talia BhattTransecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature2021Douglas A. Vakoch (editor) Transgender History2008 Transgender India: Understanding Third Gender Identities and Experiences2022Douglas A. Vakoch (editor)ISBN 978-3-030-96385-9The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature2024Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (editors) Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come1992 Transgender Rights2006 Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Minter (editors) Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman1996 The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story2009 A. Revathi First book on Hijra by a Hijra. When Kayla Was Kyle2013 Lou Sullivan: Daring to be a Man Among Men2017 Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman2019 First book by Hasidic trans person. Amateur 2018 Man Alive 2014 Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis 2022 The Last Time I Wore a Dress1997Dylan Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams1998 Lambda Literary Award Winner The Empress Is a Man1998Michael R. Gorman1999 Lambda Literary Award Winner Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach2001Virginia Ramey Mollenkott2002 Lambda Literary Award Winner Dress Codes2002Noelle HoweyMemoir 2003 Lambda Literary Winner Award The Gender Frontier2004Mariette Pathy Allen2005 Lambda Literary Award Winner The Transgender Studies Reader2006Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle (editors)2007 Lambda Literary Award Winner Transparent2007Cris Beam2008 Lambda Literary Award Winner Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show2009Lynn Breedlove2012 Lambda Literary Award Winner Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community2010Noach Dzmura (editor)2011 Lambda Literary Award Winner Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels2012Justin Vivian BondMemoir. 2013 Lambda Literary Award Winner Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies2012Anne Enke (editor)2013 Lambda Literary Award Winner
Fiction and poetry
Work Year Author Genre Description and ISBN References 10,000 Dresses2008 Young adult/Children's Picture book about a young transgender girl named Bailey whose family does not agree with her desire to wear dresses. An Anglo-American Alliance1906 Science fiction novel The Adventures of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy2012 S. Bear Bergman and Suzy Malik Young adult/Children's Title character Tulip receives a birthday wish from a child known as David who wishes to live as Daniela, and learns how to help and respect a gender-independent young person. 2013 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Almost Perfect2009 Brian Katcher Young adult/Children's Story of an adolescent transgender girl named Sage Hendrix who moves to a new high school in Missouri. 2011 Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association. Beatrice the Sixteenth1909 Utopian/science fiction novel A time traveller discovers a lost world, which contains a postgender society. Beautiful Music for Ugly Children2012 Young adult/Children's Despite bullying from his classmates and a lack of acknowledgement from his family, music geek Gabe (born Elizabeth) is transitioning, and just wants to make it through his nearing graduation. Stonewall Book Award winner and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Being Emily2012 Young adult/Children's Emily (born Christopher) begins to come out as transgender during her junior year of high school. Bellies2023Nicola DinanFiction2024 Polari First Book Prize Winner Breakfast on Pluto1998 Patrick McCabe Fiction Patrick "Pussy" Braden is an Irish trans woman who escapes from the fictional Irish town of Tyreelin and a drunk foster mother, to find herself and the biological mother who gave her away. Booker Prize shortlist. The Butterfly and the Flame2005 Dana De Young Fiction Blond(e) Boy, Red Lipstick2018 Geoff Bunn Fiction A cis man revisits a love affair he had in the 1980s with a transfeminine boy. Body Alchemy1996Loren CameronFiction1997 Lambda Literary Award Winner Bye-Bye, Black Sheep: A Mommy-track Mystery 2006Ayelet WaldmanMysteryPart of a series featuring Juliet Appelbaum, a stay-at-home mom and former public defender. In this installment, Appelbaum is approached by Heavenly, a transsexual woman who asks her to investigate the murder of her sister, Violetta, a prostitute and drug addict. Choir Boy 2005 Charlie Jane Anders Young adult/Children's A coming of age story of twelve-year-old Berry, a boy who seeks out antiandrogens in order to suppress his testosterone and prevent voice change from affecting his ability to sing in the choir. The novel won the Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender/Genderqueer category. Cereus Blooms at Night: A Novel1999Shani MootooFictionA multi-narrative novel set in a fictional island in the Caribbean. An ambiguously gendered, but often presumed male, nurse named Tyler tells the troubled family history of Mala Ramchandin, an elderly woman under her care at a nursing home. Ze also relates the story of the transgender man named Otoh, who becomes Tyler's boyfriend. Shani Mootoo's novel explores identity, gender and community. The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard2012 Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod (editors) Fiction The Danish Girl2000David Ebershoff FictionA fictionalized account of the life of Lili Elbe, the first person to undergo sex reassignment surgery. Detransition, Baby2021Torrey Peters FictionDidn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta2022James HannahamFictionA trans woman returns home after spending 22 years in a men's prison. Freakboy2013 Kristin Elizabeth Clark Young adult/Children's The Gender Fairy2015 Jo Hirst Children's picture book Girlfriends2023Emily ZhouShort stories2024 Leslie Feinberg Award winner Holding Still for as Long as Possible2009 Fiction Josh is a trans man with a girlfriend, Amy. 2011 Lambda Literary Award Winner I Am J2011 Cris Beam Fiction I Am Jazz2014 Jazz Jennings & Jessica Herthel Young adult/Children's Just Girls2014 Young adult/Children's Kafka on the Shore2002 General Features a gay, transgender man named Oshima who is friends with the main character. Luna2004 Young adult/Children's Story of Luna O'Neill (born Liam), a young male-to-female transsexual. Lambda Literary Award finalist in the Children's/Young Adult category. Maxine Wore Black2014 Nora Olsen Fiction An Unexpected Turn2021 Brianna Nicole Austin FictionA coming-of-age male-to-female story about a 12-year-old boy that gets caught by his mother cross-dressing. Her desperate attempt to hide the secret from her friends sets off in motion a series of events that will change their lives forever. Sometimes humorous and light, the novela delves into being a transgender girl from the perspective of both the young boy, Stephanie, his mother, and Dr. Dorothy, Stephanie's best friend, Mezcalero2015 2017 T.E. Wilson Fiction First novel in the Detective Sánchez series, featuring the Mexican-Canadian transgender protagonist Ernesto Sánchez My Princess Boy2009 Cheryl Kilodavis and Suzanne DeSimone Young adult/Children's Picture book about the author's son Dyson, whose self-expression does not conform to stereotypical gender role as Dyson prefers clothing meant for girls. Myra Breckinridge1968 Fiction Myra is a beautiful young woman with a secret agenda and a secret past as a man named Myron. Nevada: A Novel2013 Imogen Binnie Fiction Punk New York City trans woman Maria Griffith goes on a road trip to Nevada while reflecting on gender and queer politics. 2014 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Orlando: A Biography1928 Fiction Story of Orlando, an individual assigned male at birth who was born in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. Orlando lives for more than 300 years and, at around 30 years of age, mysteriously changes sex to female. Parrotfish2011 Ellen Wittlinger Young adult/Children's Coming out story of a transgender teenage boy named Grady; the title refers to the fact that parrotfish can change their gender. Roving Pack2012 Sassafras Lowrey Young adult/Children's Story of a group of independent youths in the Portland, Oregon area trying to find their way. Run, Clarissa, Run2012 Rachel Eliason Fiction A Safe Girl to Love2014 FictionWon 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender FictionSacred Country1992Rose Tremain FictionA novel about Mary Ward, who at the age of six decides she should have been born a boy. The novel concerns her struggle in a small town in England. She's Not There2003Jennifer Finney BoylanFiction2004 Lambda Literary Award Winner Stone Butch Blues1993 Fiction Butch Jess Goldberg grows up in the pre-Stonewall era. Won the Lambda Literary Award and the 1994 American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Award. Violence and the body: race, gender, and the state Arturo J. Aldama; Indiana University Press, 2003; .Omnigender: A trans-religious approach Virginia R. Mollenkott, Pilgrim Press, 2001; .Gay & lesbian literature, Volume 2 Sharon Malinowski, Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast; St. James Press, 1998; . The Ice Princess2011 Fiction Black trans woman struggles through her past to become a daytime soap opera star. This is the first book in a trilogy.The Ship We Built2020Lexie BeanMiddle grade/Children's10-year-old trans boy Rowan doesn't have the words yet to describe how he feels. He doesn't fit in with the boys or the girls, he faces sexual abuse from his father, and his mother ignores him. He finds an outlet in writing letters and attaching them to balloons. Deals with gender, coming of age, bullying, abuse, and racism.Summer Fun2021Jeanne ThorntonFictionWon 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica2011Tristan Taormino (editor)Fiction2012 Lambda Literary Award Winner The Thirty Names of Night2020Zeyn JoukhadarFiction2021 Stonewall Book Award Winner Trans-Sister Radio2000 Fiction Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics2013 T.C. Tolbert & Trace Peterson (editors) Poetry Trumpet1999Jackie KayFiction2000 Lambda Literary Award Winner When the Harvest Comes2025Denne Michele NorrisFiction Wild Dogs of Mexico2018 T.E. Wilson Fiction Second novel in the Detective Sánchez series, featuring the Mexican-Canadian transgender protagonist Ernesto SánchezWoodworking2025Emily St. JamesFiction
Magazines and periodicals