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• Bornstein, Kate. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. New York: Vintage, 1995.

• Califia, Pat. "Transsexual Autobiography: The First Wave." Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997. Pages 11-51.

• Cameron, Loren. Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits. San Franciso: Cleis Press, 1997.

• Chermayeff, Catherine, Jonathan David, and Nan Richardson. Drag Diaries. Umbra Editions, 1995.

• Cossey, Caroline. My Story. Boston, Faber & Faber, 1991.

• County, Jayne with Rupert Smith. Man Enough to be a Woman. London and New York: Serpent's Tail, 1996.

• Davis, Sharon. A Finer Specimen of Womanhood: A Transsexual Speaks Out New York: Vantage, 1985.

• Harrison, David. "The Personals." PoMoSEXUALS: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality. Eds. Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997. Pages 129-137.

• Hunt, Nancy. Mirror Image: The Odyssey of A Male-to-Female Transsexual New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1978.

• Jones, Aphrodite. All She Wanted. New York: Pocket Books, 1996.

• Jorgensen, Christine. Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography. New York: Bantam Books, 1968.

• Jorgensen, Christine. "The Story of My Life." America Weekly March 1953. Parts III & IV.

• Lady Chablis, The. Hiding My Candy. Hiding My Candy : The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah. New York: Pocket Books, 1997.

• Morris, Jan. Conundrum: An Extraordinary Narrative of Transsexualism. New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1974.

• Nagle, Jill. "Stroking My Inner Fag." PoMoSEXUALS: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality. Eds. Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997. Pages 122-126.

• Rees, Mark. Dear Sir or Madam: The Autobiography of a Female-to-Male Transsexual. London: Cassel, 1996.

• Richards, Renee with John Ames. Second Serve: The Renee Richards Story. New York: Stein and Day, 1983.

• RuPaul. Lettin' It All Hang Out: An Autobiography. David Cashion, ed. New York: Hyperion, 1996.

• Scholinski, Daphne and Jane Meredith Adams. The Last Time I Wore a Dress. New York: Riverhead Books, 1997.

• Scott, R.H.F.(translator), The Transvestite Memoirs of The Abbe de Choisy. London: Peter Owen Ltd., 1973.

• Sullivan, Louis. From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1990.

• Von Mahlsdorf, Charlotte, (translated by Jean Hollander). I Am My Own Woman: The Outlaw Life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Berlin's Most Distinguished Transvestite. Pittsburgh: Cleis Press Inc., 1995

• Wilchins, Riki Anne. Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1997.

• American Psychiatric Association (APA). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Washington DC: APA, 1994.

• Austin, C.R. and R.G. Edwards. Mechanisms of Sex Differentiation in Animals and Man. London: Academic Press, 1981.

• Blanchard, Ray, Suzanne Legault, and William R. N. Lindsay. "Vaginoplasty Outcome in Male-to-Female Transsexuals." Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy , Vol. 13, No. 4, Winter 1987. Pages 570-575.

• Coleman, Eli, and Walter O. Bockting. "'Heterosexual' Prior to Sex Reassignment - ' Homosexual' Afterwards: A Case Study of a Female-to-Male Transsexual." Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, Vol. 1(2), 1988. Pages 69-82.

• Ettner, Randi. Confessions of a Gender Defender : A Psychologist's Reflections on Life Among the Transgendered. Evanston Publications, 1996.

• Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough." The Sciences. March/April, 1993. Pages 20-24.

• Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

• Green, Richard, and Davis T. Fleming. "Transsexual Surgery Follow-Up: Status in the 1990s." Annual Review of Sex Research, 1990. Pages 163-174.

• Green, Richard, and John Money, eds. Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1969.

• Israel, Gianna E., and Donald E. Tarver, Md. Transgender Care : Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information, and Personal Accounts. Temple University Press, 1997

• Lief, Harold I. And Lynn Hubschman. "Orgasm in the Postoperative Trassexual." Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1993. Pages 145-155.

• Lindemalm, Gunnar, Dag Korlin, and Nils Uddenberg. "Long-Term Follow-Up of 'Sex Change' in 133 Male-to-Female Transsexuals." Archives of Sexual Behavior , Vol. 15, No. 3, 1986. Pages 187-210.

• Moir, Anne and David Jessel. Brain Sex. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1991. Pages 1-57.

• Money, John. Venuses Penuses Buffalo, N.Y., Prometheus Books, 1986.

• Money, John and John Brennan. "Sexual Dimorphism in the Psychology of Female Transsexuals." Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment. Eds. Richard Green and John Money. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1969.

• Bornstein, Kate. "The Seven Year Itch." Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. New York: Vintage, 1995. Pages 227-238.

• Bornstein, Kate and Caitlin Sullivan. Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure. London: High Risk Books/Serpent's Tail, 1996.

• Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1993.

• Hwang, David Henry. M. Butterfly. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1988.

• Tan, Cecelia. GenderFlex. Cambridge, MA: Circlet Press, 1996.

• Vidal, Gore. Myra Breckinridge. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1968.

• Winterson, Jeanette. Written on the Body. New York: Vintage Press, 1994.

• The Crying Game. Neil Jordan, dir. 1993.

• Different For Girls. Richard Spence, dir. First Look Pictures 1996.

• Ma Vie En Rose. Alain Berliner, dir. 1997.

• Orlando. Sally Potter, 1992

• Twelfth Night. Trevor Nunn, dir. New Line Studios, 1996.

• What Sex Am I? Lee Grant, dir. 1984.

• You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men. Northern Lights Productions, 1996

• Blackwood, Evelyn, and Saskia Wieringa, Eds. Female Desires : Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures (Between Men--Between Women). New York: Columbia University Press, 1999 (expected).

• Feinberg, Leslie. Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

• Herdt, Gilbert, ed. Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History. New York: Zone Books, 1993.

• Katz, Jonathan. Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. New York: Thomas Y. Cromwell Company, 1976.

• Roscoe, Will. "The Zuni Man-Woman." Outlook. Summer, 1988. Pages 37-48.

• Stringer, J.A. The Transsexual's Survival Guide II to Transition and Beyond for Family, Friends, and Employers. King of Prussia, PA: Creative Design Services, 1993.

• Wilchins, Riki Anne, ed. The First National Survey on TransViolence. Waltham, MA: GenderPAC, 1997.

• Angier, Natalie. "New Debate Over Surgery on Genitals." New York Times. May 13, 1997. B7.

• Conkin, Dennis. "Human Rights Commission Addresses Transgender Issues." Bay Area Reporter, May 19, 1994. Page 1.

• Deva. "FTM: A Discussion Organized and Facilitated by Deva." Brat Attack, No. 3, 1992. Pages 8-12, 15-19.

• Levy, Dan and David Tuller. "'Transgender' People Coming Out." San Francisco Chronicle, May 28, 1993. Pages A1 and A17.

• Ogborn, Anne. "Going Home" and "Hijras and Intersexuals." Hermaphrodites with Attitude, Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 1994, Pages 2-3.

• Ridgway, Mindy. "Nebraska Man Guilty of Brandon Teena's Murder." San Francisco Bay Times, March 23 1995. Page 4.

• Rotello, Gabriel. "Transgendered Like Me." The Advocate. December 10, 1996. Page 88.

• Signorile, Michelangelo. "Transgender Nation." Out. June 1996.

• Stryker, Jeff. "Bigotry and Ignorance vs. The 'Transgendered'." San Francisco Examiner, December 13, 1995. Page A33.

• Sullivan, L. "Sullivan's Travels." The Advocate, June 6, 1989. Pages 68-71.

• Taylor, John. "The Third Sex." Esquire. April 1995. Pages 102-114.

• Balsamo, Anne. Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. Pages 116-132.

• Bolin, A. In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc, 1988.

• Bornstein, Kate. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. New York: Vintage, 1995.

• Bornstein, Kate. My Gender Workbook. New York: Routledge, 1998.

• Brown, Mildred L. & Chloe Ann Rounsley. True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1996.

• Burke, Phyllis. Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female. New York: Anchor, 1996.

• Butler, Judith. "Imitation and Gender Insubordination." The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Eds. Henry Abelove et al. New York: Routledge, 1993. Pages 307-320.

• Califia, Pat. Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997.

• Cieko, Anne. "Transgender, Transgenre, and Transnational: Sally Potter's Orlando." The Velvet Light Trap. Austin: University of Texas Press, Spring 1997. Pages 19-34.

• Devor, Holly. FTM: Female to Male Transsexuals in Society Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

• Devor, Holly. Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits of Duality, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

• Dickens, Homer. What a Drag: Men as Women and Women as Men in the Movies. New York: Quill, 1984.

• Ekins, Richard and David King, eds., Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-dressing and Sex-changing. London: Routledge, 1996.

• Epstein, Julia, and Kristina Straub. Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity. New York: Routledge, 1991

• Feinbloom, Deborah Heller. Transvestites and Transsexuals. New York: A Delta Book, 1976.

• Garber, Marjorie. "Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender." The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Eds. Henry Abelove et al. New York: Routledge, 1993. Pages 321-333.

• Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough." The Sciences. March/April, 1993. Pages 20-24.

• Feinberg, Leslie. Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come. New York: World View Forum, 1992.

• Foucault, Michel, ed. Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Center French Hermaphrodite. New York: Pantheon, 1980.

• Garber, Marjorie. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993.

• Hale, C. Jacob. "Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex Without Men or Women." Social Text 52-53. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. Pages 223-236.

• Harrison, David. "The Personals." PoMoSEXUALS: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality. Eds. Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997. Pages 129-137.

• Hausman, Bernice L. Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

• Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Toward a Recognition of Androgyny. New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper Colophon Books, Harper and Roy Publishers, 1974.

• James, Joy. "Black Femmes Fatales and Sexual Abuse in Progressive "White" Cinema: Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa and The Crying Game" Camera Obscura: Black Women, Spectatorship, and Visual Culture/36, Deborah Grayson, ed. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995.

• Kessler, Suzanne J., and Wendy McKenna. Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach. New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, 1978.

• Kulick, Don. "A Man in the House: The Boyfriends of Travesti Prostitutes." Social Text 52-53. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. Pages 133-160.

• MacKenzie, Gordene Olga. Transgender Nation. Bowling Green State University Press, 1994.

• Milliken, Christie. "Unheimlich Maneuvers: The Genres and Genders of Transsexual Documentary." The Velvet Light Trap. Austin: University of Texas Press, Spring 1997. Pages 47-61.

• Millot, Catherine. (Translation by Kenneth Hylton). Horsexe: Essay on Transsexuality. New York: Autonomedia, 1990.

• Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema." Visual and Other Pleasures. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989. Pages 14-26.

• Nagle, Jill. "Stroking My Inner Fag." PoMoSEXUALS: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality. Eds. Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997. Pages 122-126.

• Nanda, Serena. Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1990.

• Nataf, Zachary, Ed. "New Genders and Pansexualities." Lesbians Talk Transgender. London: Scarlet Press, 1996. Pages 17-34.

• Newton, Esther. Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1972.

• O'Keefe, Tracie, and Katrina Fox. Trans-X-U-All: The Naked Difference. London: Extraordinary People Press, 1997.

• Raymond, Janice. "The Politics of Transgenderism." Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing, Richard Ekins and Dave Kin, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.

• Raymond, Janice. The Transsexual Empire: The Making of a She-Male. Boston: Beacon Press, 1979. Second edition by New York: Teachers College Press, 1994.

• Rubin, Gayle. "Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections of Butch, Gender, and Boundaries." The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, Joan Nestle, ed. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1992. Pages 466-482.

• Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. "A Response to C. Jacob Hale." Social Text 52-53. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. Pages 237-239.

• Stone, Sandy. "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto." Body Guards. Eds. J. Epstein and K. Straub. New York: Routledge, 1991.

• Tuller, David. "Adventures of a Dacha Sex Spy." PoMoSEXUALS: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality. Eds. Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997. Pages 174-188.

• Tully, Brian. Accounting for Transsexualism and Transhomosexuality. London: Whiting & Birch Ltd, 1992.

• Wilchins, Riki Anne. Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1997.

• Wittig, Monique. "One Is Not Born a Woman." The Straight Mind and Other Essays. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. Pages 1-20.

• Valentine, David and Riki Anne Wilchins. "One Percent on the Burn Chart: Gender, Genitals, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude." Social Text 52-53. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. Pages 215-222.

• Zilliax, Amy. "The Scorpion and The Frog: Agency and Identity in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game." Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies/35. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, May 1995. Pages 25-51.