 | True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism - For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals by Mildred L. Brown
Buy new: £7.92 / Used from: £4.94 A guide for those who wish to understand more about transsexualism. Very American, and sometimes too detailed about procedures, but useful all the same.
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 | Sex Changes: Transgender Politics by Patrick Califia
Buy used from: £10.61 A great starting point to discover more about trans issues and history. Various different editions available.
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 | From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £6.83 Good anthology of writing by a wide range of transguys.
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 | Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Buy used from: £8.15 Semi-autobiographical novel of a transgender butch, both extremely moving and a fascinating insight into LGBT history.
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 | Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green
Buy new: £21.38 / Used from: £9.68 One of the classics. If you only read one FTM autobiography, make it this one!
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 | A Self-made Man by Paul Hewitt
Buy used from: £5.48 Autobiography of a UK transguy, written in diary format.
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 | Michael Nee Laura: The World's First Female to Male Transsexual by Liz Hodgkinson
Buy used from: £0.88 Interesting account of the life of Michael Dillon, the first FTM in the world to undergo hormone therapy and surgery.
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 | Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience by Matt Kailey
Buy new: £6.35 / Used from: £3.47 This is more a series of observational pieces than an autobiography - another excellent read.
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 | Trumpet by Jackie Kay
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £1.37 Wonderful novel about a fictional jazz trumpeter, Joss Moody, who is discovered upon his death to be female-bodied. Told through the eyes of a number of people, incuding Joss's widow and son.
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 | Both Sides Now: One's Mans Journey Through Womanhood by Dhillon Khosla
Buy used from: £1.96 Well-written autobiography of a US transman, focusing on his transition and surgery.
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 | The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals by Dean Kotula
Buy used from: £37.01 Excellent book, with a wide variety of personal stories, and interesting surgery photography.
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 | Transman - Bitesize: The Story of a Woman Who Became a Man by Rico Adrian Paris
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £9.00 Interesting enough, but although Rico explains that the words are his and hence the grammar may not always be perfect, I found the bad grammar, spelling and punctuation a major distraction.
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 | Dear Sir or Madam?: The Autobiography of a Female-to-Male Transsexual (Sexual politics) by Mark Rees
Buy used from: £1.16 Not always an easy read, Mark's autobiography details his struggles understanding his transsexualism and accessing treatment, and as such is an important reminder of the pioneers who blazed a trail.
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 | Perfidious Man by Will Self
Buy used from: £2.17 The story of Stephen Whittle, probably the UK's best known transman, combined with a series of photographs of men, examining what it means to be male in modern society.
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| From Female to Male: Life of Jack Bee Garland by Louis Henry Sullivan
Buy used from: £3.99 Fascinating account of Jack Bee Garland, who lived as male but was discovered upon his death to be female-bodied.
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 | Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.28 Beautiful novel centring on the life of a young girl, Mary, who, aged six, suddenly realises that he is, in fact a boy, and her quest to become the man, Martin, that he knows he truly is.
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 | The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male by Max Valerio
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £13.38 This autobiography focuses on Max's experiences of the effects of testosterone, along with examining his pre-transition life.
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