Great books on CD/TG/TV/TS I've just read

[Tracy Lynn]

I just got finished reading my fourth book in the last 2 weeks. I feel like I am more in touch with myself since reading them. I wanted to suggest them to anyone that may have questions they feel need answered. I just had my 42nd birthday and the questions are rolling through my head. Mid-life crisis or something like it I guess.
I have talked to a gender therapist and am going to see her in a few weeks. I am still not sure where I fall along the spectrum but I feel like I am taking small steps to getting to the answer.
I hope that some of you find the time to read these wonderful books. They share a wealth of information and ideas. I still have a few more I would like to read.

She's Not There---Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Shipping Mistake---Natasha Anne Mocke
Transgender Warriors---Leslie Feinberg
My Husband Betty---Helen Boyd

[Caroline Simmons]

Not yet Trace
but due to get
My Husband Betty---Helen Boyd

along with
Drag King Dreams"
Leslie Feinberg;

"Both Sides Now: One's Mans Journey Through Womanhood"
Dhillon Khosla;

to see the guys side which i think we all should take an interst in

when they arrive from amason early next week

at the moment reading April Ashley - First Lady

[Calliope]

She's Not There---Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Shipping Mistake---Natasha Anne Mocke
Transgender Warriors---Leslie Feinberg
My Husband Betty---Helen Boyd

I've read 2 out of 4 there and, judging my your taste, I'm psyched for the others.

I thought Alice In Genderland by Richard J. Novic was a good read.

[CaptLex]

My Husband Betty---Helen Boyd
Helen Boyd has a new book coming out, "She's Not the Man I Married" (I think that's the right title).

Also, two more for the list:

Just Add Hormones by Matt Kailey
Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green

[Calliope]

Helen Boyd has a new book coming out, "She's Not the Man I Married" (I think that's the right title).


I bet Tri-Ess just can't wait.
:bonk:

Seriously, I find it to imagine Boyd has all that much more to say. A 50/50 project with Betty would be cool, though.

I bet it's been mentioned a thousand times, but this forum could edit and produce a wonderful patchwork book.

[Kieron Andrew]

I thought Alice In Genderland by Richard J. Novic was a good read.
You mean Alice Novic right???, i got the pleasure of meeting her back in June :)

[Calliope]

You mean Alice Novic right???, i got the pleasure of meeting her back in June :)

Alice, right. I consulted the book cover to get the name right and, er, it doesn't say Alice but maybe it should.

Sounds like a wild lady.

[Kieron Andrew]

Sounds like a wild lady.she's ummmm how do i put this.......interesting!

[Siobhan Marie]

Helen Boyd has a new book coming out, "She's Not the Man I Married" (I think that's the right title).

Also, two more for the list:

Just Add Hormones by Matt Kailey
Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green

I've just read Just Add Hormones, it was brilliant and very informative. I've also read Mom, I Need To Be A Girl by Just Evelyn. I read it online, here's the url http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Evelyn/Evelyn.html

I've also ordered Cindi Jones book, The Squirrel Cage and I'll let you all know what that's like when I've read it.

:hugs: Anna Marie x

[CaptLex]

I find it to imagine Boyd has all that much more to say. A 50/50 project with Betty would be cool, though.
Here's a description of the new book:


Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman — socially, legally, and medically. Would Boyd love and desire her partner the same way?
Boyd's first book, My Husband Betty, explored the relationships of cross-dressing men and their partners. Now, She's Not the Man I Married is both a sequel and a more expansive examination of gender in relationships. It's for couples who are homosexual or heterosexual, and for readers who fall anywhere along the gender continuum.
As Boyd struggles to understand the nature of marriage, passion, and love, she shares her confusion and anger, providing a fascinating observation of the ways in which relationships are gendered, and how we cope, or don't, with the emotional and sexual pressures that gender roles can bring to our marriages and relationships.
Here's the Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Shes-Not-Man-Married-Transgender/dp/1580051936/sr=1-1/qid=1164643250/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-2791499-0532754?ie=UTF8&s=books

[Calliope]

Here's a description of the new book:


Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman [...]


Hmmm, my situation exactly. Well, looks like a must-read, thanks for the link.

[Sierra Evon]

Ive been looking to get a copy of a book by a formed 80's group singer from the group call " Dead or Alive" front man ? , Pete Burns book called "Freak Uninqe" saw it on VH1 .........have'nt really read anyothers yet , but thankx for the reading tips..........:happy:

[Tracy Lynn]

I'm getting set to read: Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein.

Thanks for all the other suggestions, I'll have to order more books now.

[Siobhan Marie]

I've just found some books that I want to add to my library and let you know what they're like as I read them.

:hugs: Anna Marie x

[Courtneygurl]

I just finished She's Not There last week. Haven't read any others, other than scanning through Mom, I Need to be a Girl online.

Have any of you read Wrapped in Blue?

[Siobhan Marie]

Here's a description of the new book:


Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman — socially, legally, and medically. Would Boyd love and desire her partner the same way?
Boyd's first book, My Husband Betty, explored the relationships of cross-dressing men and their partners. Now, She's Not the Man I Married is both a sequel and a more expansive examination of gender in relationships. It's for couples who are homosexual or heterosexual, and for readers who fall anywhere along the gender continuum.
As Boyd struggles to understand the nature of marriage, passion, and love, she shares her confusion and anger, providing a fascinating observation of the ways in which relationships are gendered, and how we cope, or don't, with the emotional and sexual pressures that gender roles can bring to our marriages and relationships.
Here's the Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Shes-Not-Man-Married-Transgender/dp/1580051936/sr=1-1/qid=1164643250/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-2791499-0532754?ie=UTF8&s=books

Thanks for the link Lex, I've put on my wish list on Amazon UK along with few other TS/TG books that I want to read. I've read "My Husband Betty" which is excellent and look forward to this one.

:hugs: Anna Marie x

[Tracy Lynn]

I just finished She's Not There last week. Haven't read any others, other than scanning through Mom, I Need to be a Girl online.

Have any of you read Wrapped in Blue?

Not yet but it is one I've been thinking about.

[melissaK]

A worthwhile read: Arlene Lev, Transgender Emergence (2004).
I'm about 75% through it. It's clinical and objective in tone, not a collection of war stories or how to tips, but still highly readable prose and awfully well researched. I wish I had had this book when I was 13 instead of Christine Jorgensen's story.

http://www.amazon.com/Transgender-Emergence-Therapeutic-Guidelines-Gender-Variant/dp/0789007088/sr=8-1/qid=1165448935/ref=sr_1_1/103-6507752-3203837?ie=UTF8&s=books

[SherriePall]

Tracie -- While I have yet to read any of the books mentioned here (wife: can't let anybody see them in the house), I often wonder where I fall along the spectrum, too. It's a mysterious journey we embarked upon when we first decided to wear that first piece of women's clothing. Sometimes the journey is exciting, wonderful, and pleasurable. Other times it's downright frightening because we either don't know where it's leading or we suspect where it's going.
I do wish you the best and I hope the therapy and the books help you find your answer.

[princessmichelle]

As Tracie and SherriePall said, I'm wondering where I fall on the spectrum.

I wonder if there is a book that is particularly strong on this point?

And yes, I have read My Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein.
(I've also read Gender Outlaw, My Husband Betty, True Selves, and The Riddle of Gender).

Princess Michelle

[princessmichelle]

Since no one else mentioned The Riddle of Gender, I wanted to describe it. The author, Deborah Rudacille, is a science journalist discusses the scientific theories of transsexuality in a very readable way, and includes interviews with transexuals about their feelings and experiences, including a post-op former Navy SEAL, an FtM scientist, and an MtF historian of transgender issues.

She was drawn to the subject when a female friend said "I had a double mastectomy because I'm becoming a man." So the author attends a crossdresser meeting in drab and is impressed by their difficulties, reads all the books she can find, and discusses this history of academic theories. For current theories, she wonders if a drug given to some pregnant women may be a factor. mentions experiments with rats, and compares chromosome issues to genetic ones.

I'd compare the book to My Husband Betty: a genetic woman who is compassionate AND doesn't let their intellectual smarts get in the way of good writing.

Princess Michelle

[Sarahgurl371]

Hmmm, they make books about this stuff?????

I have read a few

My Husband Wears my Clothes - Peggy Rudd
Crossdressing with Diginity - Peggy Rudd

The first books I ever read about CDing. They were informative and written I think for spouses, family, kind of an icebreaker.

My Husband Betty - Helen Boyd

I thought this was a good book, and when reading it thought that the author's husband would transistion, and from reading this forum, sounds like it.

Gender Outlaw - Kate Bornstein

I loved this one. Kate Bornstein seems like the kinda person you'd love to know. Kinda a wildy written book about breaking the molds.

My Gender Workbook - Kate Bornstein

I didn't make it much past the first couple chapters. I think this book is more geared towards getting Cisgendered people to open themselves up and to accept others. To realize that normal doesn't exist.


She's Not There - Jenny Boylan

This was a very good book to read, and IMO a true love story. I thought there would be more written about her feelings and thoughs though.

True Selves - Mildred Brown & Chloe Ann Rounsley

I found like everything else I read, that parts apply and others don't. Would be a good book to help explain to family, bosses about TS issues

Crossing Over, Liberating the Transgendered Christian - Vanessa Sheridan

I whole heartedly agree

Squirrel Cage - Cindi Jones

I really like this book. I have never read thus far, a clearer description of the inner workings of a TS mind, and the never ending thought processes, at least in so far as I feel the same. The story she tells offers a dose of realism as well. Definitley worth reading.

Finding the Real Me - Tracie O'Keefe & Katrina Fox

Still in the middle of this one. Its a collection of auto biographies from TG/TS people. Does a good job of expressing the different ways people deal with and have dealt with the whole T issue.

Sexual Metamorphosis - Johnathan Ames -- haven't gotten to it yet.

[Siobhan Marie]

I've just finished reading Squirrel Cage by Cindi Jones. I agree with Tammycd, it does offer a dose of realism and a clearer discription of the inner workings of the TS mind. I also found that it gave a sense of inner peace which is hard to explain. I would recommend it to anyone.

:hugs: Anna Marie x

[Tracy Lynn]

I've just finished reading Squirrel Cage by Cindi Jones. I agree with Tammycd, it does offer a dose of realism and a clearer discription of the inner workings of the TS mind. I also found that it gave a sense of inner peace which is hard to explain. I would recommend it to anyone.

:hugs: Anna Marie x

I would recommend Squirrel Cage also. Just finished it tonight. I loved it. Kind of an emotional book.

[Marcie Sexton]

All are great books...not only do they enlighten you about yourself, but can and did help me and my wife in our relationship...

:hugs:

[Tracy Lynn]

All are great books...not only do they enlighten you about yourself, but can and did help me and my wife in our relationship...

:hugs:

I feel the same way Marcie. I'm starting to realize more and more who I really am.

[MarieTS]

Two bios I'd like to add to the list...
"Second Serve" by Renee Richards; charts the transition of male opthomologist to female tennis pro and the problems she encountered in youth and adulthood prior to transitioning.

"My Story" by Carolyn Cossey. Auto biography describing the frustration of a young Brit growing up in the wrong body and the familial problems she had to contend with. Oh, and talk about a successful transition, Carolyn went on to became a Bond Girl in the movies!

[Sejd]

Thanks for sharing Tracie
hugs
Sejd

[Natasha Anne]

I just got finished reading my fourth book in the last 2 weeks. I feel like I am more in touch with myself since reading them. I wanted to suggest them to anyone that may have questions they feel need answered. I just had my 42nd birthday and the questions are rolling through my head. Mid-life crisis or something like it I guess.
I have talked to a gender therapist and am going to see her in a few weeks. I am still not sure where I fall along the spectrum but I feel like I am taking small steps to getting to the answer.
I hope that some of you find the time to read these wonderful books. They share a wealth of information and ideas. I still have a few more I would like to read.

She's Not There---Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Shipping Mistake---Natasha Anne Mocke
Transgender Warriors---Leslie Feinberg
My Husband Betty---Helen Boyd

Thanks so much got the comment about my book. I'm glad someone enjoyed it.