Trans Kids
Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century
by Tey Meadow
HQ1075 .M425 2018
New Arrivals, 2nd floor
Trans Kids is an academic-based yet engrossing interview-based study of the first generation of U.S. and Canadian families that are facilitating atypical gender expression in children instead of trying to “cure” them like previous generations of parents usually did. Viewed through the lens of dozens of cis parents and their trans or atypically feminine/masculine children. Meadow draws from many fields and examines the myriad social processes that shape gender acquisition. If you want to know more about the issues involved and get glimpses into how real people are experiencing gender nonconformity (in themselves or in their children) this could be the book for you.
If you’re interested in longer biographies or memoirs by trans individuals, you might be interested in this selection of books from UW System libraries:
- Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green. Main Collection HQ77.8.G35 G74 2004
- Being Jazz : My Life as a (Transgender Teen) by Jazz Jennings (borrow using UW Request)
- Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock (borrow using UW Request)
- The Secrets of my Life by Caitlyn Jenner with Buzz Bissinger. Browsing Collection, Books HQ77.8.J46 A3 2017
- Self-Made Woman: A Memoir by Denise Chanterelle DuBois. (borrow using UW Request)
- She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan. Main Collection PS3552.O914 Z477 2004
- Surpassing Certainty: What my Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock (borrow using UW Request)
- Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders by Joy Ladin. Main Collection PS3612.A36 Z46 2012
- Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride (borrow using UW Request)
- Transition: Becoming Who I Was Always Meant to Be by Chaz Bono with Billie Fitzpatrick (borrow using UW Request)
