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Transgender Well-Being & gender transitionbooks

Below are the best books we could find on Transgender Well-Being and gender transition.

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Transitioning Later in Life

This is my personal guide to help face who you are, accept who you are and love who you are, so you can watch your dreams and accomplishments flourish...If I can do it, you can do it too.

Jillian Celentano lived most of her life not accepting who she was.

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Jillian Celentano
2025
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Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events.

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Susan Stryker
2025
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Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children

Here is the first book to ever invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children of all ages to tell their own stories about their child’s gender transition. It offers a view that will educate everyone about the trans experience.

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Rachel Pepper
2012
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Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

Becoming a Man is a “moving narrative [that] illuminates the joy, courage, necessity, and risk-taking of gender transition” (Kirkus Reviews). For fifty years P.

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P. Carl
2021
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Where’s the Mother?: Stories from a Transgender Dad

In a time when to most people “pregnancy” automatically means “motherhood,” what is it like to get pregnant, give birth, and breastfeed a child all while being an out transgender man? When Trevor MacDonald decided to start a family, he knew that the world was going to have questions for him.

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Trevor MacDonald
2025
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Before I Had the Words: On Being a Transgender Young Adult

Revealing entries from the author’s personal journals as well as interviews with his mother, brother, and friends lend remarkable depth to a groundbreaking memoir of change, loss, discovery, pain, and relief.

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Skylar Kergil
2025
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

In this updated second edition, biologist and trans woman Julia Serano reveals a unique perspective on femininity, masculinity, and gender identity.

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Julia Serano
2025
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Amateur: A Reckoning with Gender, Identity, and Masculinity

In this “refreshing and radical” (The Guardian) narrative, Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even means—through his experience training for and fighting in a charity boxing match at Madison Square Garden.

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Thomas Page McBee
2019
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Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary

“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.

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Morty Diamond (editor)
2011
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How to Be a Girl: A Mother’s Memoir of Raising Her Transgender Daughter

Mama, something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as a boy instead of a girl. When Marlo Mack’s three-year-old utters these words, her world splits wide open.

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Marlo Mack
2025
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