Books on Crossdreaming, Sex, Gender and Transgender

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For many the struggle with sex, sexuality and gender identity leads to reading -- a lot of reading. Here are a few books that have helped me in my understanding of myself, crossdreaming, gender dysphoria and transgender.

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On crossdreaming, crossdressing and related phenomena

• My Husband Betty, Sex, Love and Life with a Crossdresser, by Helen Boyd
• She is not the man I married, my life with a transgender husband, by Helen Boyd
• Gender Madness in American Psychiatry: Essays From the Struggle for Dignity, by Kelley Winters
• Nevada, novel by Imogen Binnie
• Autogynephilia: Everyman's guide to autogynephilia, crossdreaming and late onset transsexualism, by Felix Conrad
• Transgender, Fact or Fiction, Reality or Delusion, by Felix Conrad
• How to Jedi Mindtrick Your Gender Dysphoria, by Felix Conrad
• Alice in Genderland: A Crossdresser Comes of Age, by Richard J. Novic
• Shyness & Love, by Dr. Brian G. Gilmartin
• Crossdressing, sex and gender, by Vern and Bonnie Bullough (see also this link)
• Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals, by Janet Hardy
• The Gendered Self Further commentary on the transsexual phenomenon, by Anne Vitale
• Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (including essays on girlfags and FTM crossdreaming)
• Grrl Alex, a Personal Journey to a Transgender Identity, by Alex Drummond
• Men in Bras, Panties and Dresses: The Secret Truths About Transvestites (European Medical Journal), by Dr Vernon Coleman

Books by supporters of the autogynephilia theory (included for reference only; the theory is toxic)

• Men Trapped in Men's Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism (Focus on Sexuality Research), by Anne Lawrence
• The man who would be queen: the science of gender-bending and transsexualism, by J. Michael Bailey (Free online copy here)

On transgender and queer in general

• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, by Julia Serano (includes discussion of crossdreaming)
• Outspoken, by Julia Serano  (includes discussion of crossdreaming)
• Crossing: A Memoir, by Deirdre N. McCloskey
• The transgender phenomenon, by Richard Ekins, Dave King
• Crossing sexual boundaries: transgender journeys, uncharted paths, by J. Ari Kane-Demaios, Vern L. Bullough
• She's not there: a life in two genders, by Jennifer Finney Boylan
• How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States, by Joanne Meyerowitz
• The Transsexual Phenomenon, by Harry Benjamin
• The Riddle of Gender, by Deborah Rudacille
• Excluded, by Julia Serano
• Gender Outlaw, by Kate Bornstein
• Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity, Tracie O'Keefe and Katrina Fox  (editors)
• Transvestites: The Erotic Drive To Cross Dress (New Concepts in Human Sexuality), by Magnus Hirschfeld
• The Secrets of My Life, by Caitlyn Jenner

On sex, gender, gender identity and sexuality

• Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, by Joan Roughgarden
• Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, by Anne Fausto-Sterling
• Gender Trouble, by Judith Butler
• Myths Of Gender: Biological Theories About Women And Men, by Anne Fausto-Sterling
• A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships, by Ogi Ogas and  Sai Gaddam 
• The Gender Police: A Diary, by Ros Ball and James Millar 
• The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and Transgenderism, A New View Based on Scientific Evidence, by Thomas E. Bevan
• Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, by Cordelia Fine
• Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps -- And What We Can Do About It, by Lise Eliot 
• Sex Differences: Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies, by Linda Mealey

Books for partners of crossdressers, crossdreamers and trans people

• Helen Boyd: My Husband Betty
• Helen Boyd: She’s Not The Man I Married
• Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall: Queerly Beloved. A Love Story Across Genders
• Virginia Erhardt: Head Over Heels: Wives Who Stay with Cross-Dressers and Transsexuals
• Becky Garrison & Jordon Johnson (ed.): Love, Always: Partners of Trans People on Intimacy, Challenge & Resilience
• Leslie Hilburn Fabian My Husband's a Woman Now: A Shared Journey of Transition and Love
• Jennifer Finney Boylan: Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders

The history of sex, gender and transgender

• Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts, by  Lisa Downing, Iain Morland  and Nikki Sullivan.
• Lou Sullivan; Daring to be a Man among Men, by Brice Smith
• The Invention of Heterosexual Culture, by Louis-Georges Tin
• Straight, the Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, by Hanne Blank
• Making Sex, Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, by Thomas Laqueur
• Transgender History, by Susan Stryker

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