9 Best transgender books like The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition by Anne L. Boedecker

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The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

By: Anne L. Boedecker

4.05

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition is a self-help book for transsexuals. It…

If you liked the transgender plot in The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition by Anne L. Boedecker , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

By: Julia Serano

4.26

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more

Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and Anne L. Boedecker's The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

  • nonfiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Cover of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1) by John Le Carré

2. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

By: John Le Carré

4.06

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more

Similar categories in John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1) book and Anne L. Boedecker's The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

3. Transgender History

By: Susan Stryker

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more

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4. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

Similar categories in Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer book and Anne L. Boedecker's The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

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5. Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

By: Jessica Fern

4.40

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate se… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Fern's Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy book and Anne L. Boedecker's The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"A child with a secure attachment style will likely grow up into an adult who feels worthy of love and seeks to create meaningful, healthy relationships with people who are physically and emotionally …"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Commitment can be expressed in many ways. Traditionally it is solidified through marriage, owning property, having kids or wearing certain types of jewelry, but legal, domestic, or ornamental underta…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer den…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population has a nervous system wired to be more sensitive. These people are more attuned to the subtleties of their environment and process that information muc…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

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6. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Anne L. Boedecker's The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

  • transgender
  • lgbt
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

Cover of A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson

7. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny book and Anne L. Boedecker's The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

  • nonfiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love by Mia Violet

8. Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love

By: Mia Violet

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

With entertaining anecdotes and thoughtful observations, this memoir depicts the realities of being… read more

Similar categories in Mia Violet's Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love book and Anne L. Boedecker's The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

  • nonfiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Being the funnyt person is an easy part to play when you hate yourself, because it feels like your whole life is a joke written by somebody else."

-Mia Violet, Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love

"If you don't know that being trans is even a concept, you're unlikely to realize there's a valid reason why you don't fit in-you just assume the problem is you."

-Mia Violet, Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love

"It was like I had grown up with a limiter on my emotions, blocking me from feeling anything too deeply-positive or negative-but finally it had been taken off. I was feeling things profoundly and mean…"

-Mia Violet, Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love

Cover of You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery by Dara Hoffman-Fox

9. You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery

By: Dara Hoffman-Fox

4.30

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Are you wrestling with questions surrounding your gender that just don't seem to go away? Do you wa… read more

Similar categories in Dara Hoffman-Fox's You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery book and Anne L. Boedecker's The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

  • nonfiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Non-Binary Lives - An Anthology of Intersecting Identities by Jos Twist

10. Non-Binary Lives - An Anthology of Intersecting Identities

By: Jos Twist

4.21

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to be non-binary in the 21st Century? Our gender identity is impacted by our pers… read more

Similar categories in Jos Twist's Non-Binary Lives - An Anthology of Intersecting Identities book and Anne L. Boedecker's The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

  • nonfiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Love & Estrogen (The Real Thing collection) by Samantha  Allen

11. Love & Estrogen (The Real Thing collection)

By: Samantha Allen

4.12

Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition

In this unforgettable meet-cute, Samantha Allen traces her story of self-discovery during gender tr… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's Love & Estrogen (The Real Thing collection) book and Anne L. Boedecker's The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

  • nonfiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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12. Uncomfortable Labels

By: Laura Kate Dale

4.10

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

"So while the assumption when I was born was that I was or would grow up to be a neurotypical heter… read more

Similar categories in Laura Kate Dale's Uncomfortable Labels book and Anne L. Boedecker's The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

  • nonfiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition by Anne L. Boedecker

13. The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

By: Anne L. Boedecker

4.05

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition is a self-help book for transsexuals. It… read more

Similar categories in Anne L. Boedecker's The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition book and Anne L. Boedecker's The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition

  • nonfiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt

10 best-selling nonfiction books like The Transgender Guidebook: Keys to a Successful Transition by Anne L. Boedecker

Transform Your Habits

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Julia Serano

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Gender Queer

Maia Kobabe

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Jessica Fern

4.40

Transform Your Habits

A Short History of Trans Misogyny

Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

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Transform Your Habits

More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

Tatiana Gill , Franklin Veaux , Eve Rickert , None

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Jessica Fern

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

Emily Nagoski

4.14

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