This pioneering anthology released by Transgress Press is the first of its kind, presenting raw, unadulterated testimonies of transsexual men’s experiences of sex reassignment surgery. The collection offers a comprehensive understanding of why transsexual men choose genital surgery and its transformative impact on their lives. Hung Jury has widespread appeal, catching the attention and interests of a wide and diverse readership looking to understand transsexuality, sex, and gender identity. Because the book breaks new ground in LGBT, Gender, and feminist studies moreover, it is also an excellent read for courses taught in these academic fields.

Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men

Biographies & Memoirs

Cotten, Trystan Theosophus

Professionals & Academics

Transgress Press

In today's fast paced world, the internet can provide quick answers to personal questions. But when an individual raised by society to live, breathe and look at the world female eyes transitions to male, some of the most enlightening, helpful and profound advice can only come in retrospect. This paperback edition features a powerful new preface by Max Wolf Valerio, author of The Testosterone Files, and other essays from respected transmen mentors who share their wisdom of journeying into manhood.

Letters for My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect

Rohrer, Megan M.

Love, Always is the first collection of writings by partners of trans people exploring the impact of gender transitioning on their relationships and families. As media visibility of trans people rises, so does the need to hear from their loved ones who also go through transformations of their own when their partners transition. In moving testimonies of trial and triumph, partners voice their feelings about their partner’s gender transition and its effects on a range of issues, including childrearing, sexual intimacy, shifting relationship dynamics, public disclosure, finances and more. These personal testimonies of resilient love and commitment are a refreshing alternative to the narratives of tragedy and loss encountered so often of trans people in the media.

Love, Always: Partners of Trans People on Intimacy, Challenge and Resilience

Johnson, Jordon

Are you looking for answers of how to respond to your transgender child? Or wondering how to deal with the callous remarks of others? As your child continues to assert their gender nonconforming identity, do you find yourself constantly asking: Now What? Finally, here is a book that presents a comprehensive approach to the concerns and challenges facing families with gender nonconforming children. With keen sensitivity to the confusion, anxiety, fear, frustration and guilt that some parents feel, Dr. Butt presents a road map of strategies and tools to help them navigate the complex issues confronting them. His practical approach and wisdom provides guidance, resources, and comfort to help families with transgender children of all ages—ranging from the pre-school to adolescent to adult children who transition later in life—understand and support their gender-nonconforming loved ones.

Now What?: A Handbook for Families with Transgender Children

Parenting & Relationships

Butt, Rex

Disabilities & Hyperactivity

What happens when an introverted feminist academic tosses off her big black nerd glasses and succumbs to a brutal crush on a hard-rockin’ Texas boygirl? Paige Schilt’s journey introduces her to Southern belles, singing sperm donors, gay evangelicals, and tattooed sub-cultural kinfolk. A unique tale of family, illness, and resilience, Queer Rock Love reminds us that our trials and tribulations can sometimes become powerful sources of community and connection.

Queer Rock Love: A Family Memoir

Schilt, Paige

Delivery room shock! A baby is born with both sex organs, and a hasty decision is made that leads to a life filled with lies and misgivings. Puberty reveals the truth, however, and now young Chris must make the decision of a lifetime. To find out which gender is right, Chris changes high schools and embarks on an experimental journey during senior year. Everything goes smoothly the first few weeks. Then, along comes Lauren, the prettiest, most popular girl in school, and Chris falls head over heels in love. But Chris has no clue that Lauren is keeping a secret, too that must be revealed before the experiment ends. Will Chris and Lauren discover one another’s hidden truth in time to save their love from an ironic twist of fate?

New Girl Blues...or Pinks

Ross, Mary Degroat

LGBTQ+ Books

Have you ever wondered what men think about their junk? Or what they feel and say about it? Raw and revealing, this collection brings together the voices of 25 men of trans experience who openly share intimate details of how gender transitioning has changed their genitalia, gender identity, and lives. These personal stories and essays take you on an odyssey of men’s innermost thoughts and feelings about erections, orgasms, penis pumping, genital reconstruction, pregnancy, menstruation, and more. Raw, frank, and sometimes funny, these cutting-edge testimonies redefine what it means to be a man in the 21st century.

Below the Belt: Genital Talk by Men of Trans Experience

Cotten, Dr Trystan Theosophus

Transgender stories are appearing everywhere in the media today. Caitlin Jenner, Chaz Bono and Janet Mock offer many inspiring visions of the journey people take to bring their bodies in line with their gender identity. But what goes on behind the scenes of gender transitioning? What about the spouses and families who watch and support their transgender partners through these epic journeys? Rarely do we hear about their experiences of loving transgender people. With literary poise and timely humor Ali Sands delivers a riveting memoir of finding her way through a labyrinth of changing identity from married heterosexual woman to lesbian lover to queer femme. Sands lays her soul open to readers, leading them through an odyssey of raw human emotion, as she recounts the intimate details of loving and living with a transgender man. Her modern journey of courage and self-discovery easily trumps that of any Homeric hero.

I Know Who You Are, But What Am I?: A Partner's Perspective on Transgender Love

Ali Sands

Born in a rural Chinese village and identified as a girl at birth, Lei Ming, is barely cared for during his childhood. Often lonely, terrified and abused, he learns early to fend for himself and look within for answers, but there he discovers a paradox that threatens to undo him. Although he does not yet know the word "transsexual," at 16, Ming sets out on a secret mission to find relief. Life Beyond My Body tells the true story of his quest to find answers in a society that is closed-mouthed about men like Ming. Along the way, Ming finds both solace and judgement in the Christian church, loves and loses a woman, begins his physical transition using black market testosterone, is jailed over his identity, and arranges for top surgery without blowing his cover. But ultimately, understanding the true meaning of being a man will require reckoning with God.

Life Beyond My Body: A Transgender Journey to Manhood in China

Ming, Lei

Frazey, Lura

Profoundly philosophical, surprisingly funny and brutally honest, this modern day tragic-comedy pulls no punches delving into the Sisyphean struggle of human addiction and recovery. After a decade of sobriety and relentless devotion to becoming a writer, Trunky finally finds himself on the brink of success and widespread acclaim. But as fate would have it, he spirals down into depression and begins using heroin again. This relapse is different from those that came before, however, as Trunky ends up institutionalized in a recovery center in the south among a diverse group of dopers--thugs, criminals, white supremacists, professional athletes and business men--all of whom are looking for something they’re terrified of finding. As Trunky navigates his path from addition to recovery and female to manhood in this cast of characters, he find himself on an unexpected journey into the depths of the human soul where he discovers its fundamental flaws and the redemption humans experience from honest vulnerability when we have the courage to take the plunge.

Trunky: Transgender Junky

Peterson, Samuel

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