| As Nature Made Him, by John Colapinto,
read by Howard McGillin. The story of David Reimer who's botched circumcision
as a baby resulted in him living the first 14 years of his life as a girl.
Yet at age 14, he makes the decision to live life as a male. David's early
life was used as the example that gender identity was based on physical biology/nurture,
whereas Reimer's decision to reject Dr John Money's insistence that he "conveniently"
become female has been embraced by the trans-community as an example of individual
gender freedom being more important than theories from the "experts". AUDIO BOOK - Remaindered Kersplebedeb Price: $15.00 |
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FTM Resource guide, 7th edition September 2002 - FTM International - $6.00. The definitive resource guide those on the female to male gender continuum, their friends, significant others and allies. Expanded from previous years, this guide lists sympathetic and competent medical service providers, lawyers, advocacy groups, and much more. 104 pages perfectly bound. |
| Shadow Man, by Melissa Scott. Winner of the
Lambda Literary Award - transgender science fiction classic about a backwater
planet which recognizes only two genders while the rest of the civilized
galaxy recognizes five (ring any bells?). Softcover 320 pages ISBN 0-312-86206-7 Retail Price: $13.95 Kersplebedeb Price: $6.00 |
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Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
, by Diane Wood Middlebrook. In the days before "transgender" was a word,
Billy Tipton defied the odds and lived life as a man, marrying five times
and fathering several children, despite the fact that he had been born female.
This book is valuable as one of the few biographical sources about Tipton,
but should be taken with a grain of salt as the author implausibly, and somewhat
insultingly, insists that Tipton would not have identified as a man, but as
a woman disguing herself in order to be able to make it in a man's world.
Nevertheless, i carry this title as its one of the few sources of information
about this man, who many consider a FTM pioneer. Softcover, 326 pages, Remaindered Kersplebedeb Price: $6.00 |
