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."
Excerpt from author Kit Heyam's book description: "A nominee for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction Before We Were Trans is a global history of gender nonconformity. It tells the stories of people who don’t fit into modern and/or Western trans categories – but who nonetheless show us that gender has never been fixed, essentialised, or unchallenged. It’s also about history, and how we can do history in a more humane, ethical and anti-racist way."
Author, photographer, and member of the extended BLS community Susan Kuklin interviewed six transgender and nonbinary teens and shared their stories.
Analyzes the UK's Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) and diverse engagements with the GRA.
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."
Edited by Kit Heyam and Jonathan Ward. Available through Bloomsbury Open Access collection.
Excerpt from book's description: "[F]eatures a diverse collective of arts and humanities researchers, educators and creative practitioners, sharing their thoughts and experiences of how to approach gender nonconformity creatively and ethically, including from a decolonial perspective."
Excerpt from project's description: "The New York City Trans Oral History Project is a community archive devoted to the collection, preservation and sharing of trans histories, organized in collaboration with the New York Public Library."
Study aid. Digital copy circulates for 2 hrs.
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."
11/112025: Pre-ordered by BLS Library.
Excerpt from book's description: "Transgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth century, encompassing the major movements, writings, and events that shape today’s gender revolution."
In the Prologue, Prof. Susan Stryker wrote: "Piecing together this story of trans history in the United States was a big focus of my professional life as a historian for nearly twenty years."
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15 essays grouped in 3 parts: Law, History & Politics.
