BLS Library's team has published a digital book display for Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance. It includes 1) an announcement of the BLS OUTLaws General Body Meeting on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at which attendees will commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance, and 2) descriptions of additional upcoming local events.

 

Recent BLS Library acquisitions include:

Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950 (2025)

Excerpt from publisher's book description: "Organized into 4 parts paralleling today’s controversies over gender identity (kids, activists, workers, and athletes), Before Gender introduces [30] figures whose forgotten stories transform the discussion: Mark and David Ferrow, 2 of the first trans teens to access gender-affirming medical treatment following overwhelming support from their friends, family, and neighbors; Gerda von Zobeltitz, a trans countess who instigated an LGBTQ+ riot 40 years before Stonewall; Frank Williams, a young trans man who was fired from over a dozen jobs for his gender; [and] Frances Anderson, the world’s greatest female billiards player of the 1910s."

A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States: From Margins to Mainstream (2025)

Ordered by BLS Library (11/11/2025).  Excerpt from publisher's description: "The most comprehensive history of transgender medicine to date, as told by more than forty scholars, physicians, psychologists, and activists from trans, gender-diverse, and allied medical communities."

So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color (2025)

Available as an ebook. Excerpt from publisher's book description: "So Many Stars knits together the voices of [20] trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and two-spirit elders of color as they share authentic, intimate accounts of how they created space for themselves and their communities in the world." 

In addition, the BLS Library guide: Writing Competitions for Law Students includes updated information about The Dukeminier Awards Student Writing Competition, which "annually recognizes the best law review note written by a student in the field of sexual orientation and gender identity law." The first-place winner will receive a $1,000 prize award (the Jeffrey S. Haber Prize for Student Scholarship) and a publication opportunity in the Dukeminier Awards Journal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law. This Competition's submission deadline is: Monday, December 22, 2025.  The Competition's guidelines state that: "Entries should not be previously published or scheduled for publication. In addition, students who submit notes promise exclusive submission to the Dukeminier Student Writing Competition until February 1, 2026."