In my ongoing quest to become more knowledgeable about the “T” portion of LGBT, I’ve continued to seek out and read books on the transgendered and those that are transitioning or considering doing so. Before now, I’d read some biographies and one book on gender in general. I got a bit of transgender history from other readings about Stonewall but I had no real feel for the whole of it.
I began to search for a book that was not either an autobiographical sketch of the transitioning process (like the book written by Chaz Bono, Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man
This is an easy, yet enlightening read that gives you the facts without all of the gender debate and all of the politics. The book is fully indexed. Also included is an extremely extensive list of further reading and other information resources.
The Publisher’s Product Description
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. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-’70s to 1990—the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; and the gender issues witnessed through the ’90s and ’00s.Transgender History includes informative sidebars highlighting quotes from major texts and speeches in transgender history and brief biographies of key players, plus excerpts from transgender memoirs and discussion of treatments of transgenderism in popular culture.
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