13 must-read memoir books like Gender Euphoria by Laura Kate Dale

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Gender Euphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

4.11

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s …

"My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

"If you don’t mind keeping a secret, I can tell you that the reality is that people ask fewer questions about what’s going on in your pants if they’re distracted by what you’ve got drawn on your arms."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

If you liked the memoir plot in Gender Euphoria by Laura Kate Dale , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of How to Understand Your Gender by Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker

1. How to Understand Your Gender

By: Alex Iantaffi , Meg-John Barker

4.16

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

'For anyone who's ever wished they had a smart, kind, friend with whom they could calmly and safely… read more

Similar categories in Alex Iantaffi's How to Understand Your Gender book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano

2. 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 Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"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

3. Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us

By: None

3.93

Format: 152 pages,

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Similar categories in None's Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

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4. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Gender Euphoria by Laura Kate Dale

5. Gender Euphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

4.11

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s … read more

Similar categories in Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • queer
"My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

"If you don’t mind keeping a secret, I can tell you that the reality is that people ask fewer questions about what’s going on in your pants if they’re distracted by what you’ve got drawn on your arms."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

Cover of Homebody by Theo Parish

6. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

Similar categories in Theo Parish's Homebody book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • gender
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

Cover of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

7. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By: Kit Heyam

4.30

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity   Today’s narratives about trans people … read more

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

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8. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

Cover of The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics by The Kao

9. The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics

By: The Kao

4.37

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this vibrant and affirming comics anthology, 29 trans & nonbinary comic artists share their pers… read more

Similar categories in The Kao's The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar

10. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

By: Schuyler Bailar

4.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more

Similar categories in Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between by Meg-John Barker

11. Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

By: Meg-John Barker

4.08

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Challenging society's rigid and binary ways of thinking, this original work shows the limitations t… read more

Similar categories in Meg-John Barker's Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Indigenous, Black, and Brown bodies are often non-consensually objectified, exoticized, and touched in public, especially, but not only, if presenting as feminine. It's as if bodies that "don't matte…"

-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

"The partner/friend binary places coupled, monogamous, romantic, sexual, partnered love right at the pinnacle of human experience. Like the sexual and gender binaries this is quite a new, Western domi…"

-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

"Perhaps an overarching binary when it comes to love and relationships is the one which privileges partners over friends. You can see this reflected in phrases like "just friends", "more than friends"…"

-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

"Knowing who we are, what we want, and being able to express our needs, wants, and desires - so that we can find others to share them - makes us poor targets for capitalism, because we can now access …"

-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

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

12. 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 Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"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 Non-Binary Lives - An Anthology of Intersecting Identities by Jos Twist

13. 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 Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
Cover of What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary by Juno  Dawson

14. What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

By: Juno Dawson

4.34

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or non-binary person in the twenty-first centu… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"That's the thing with kids, isn't it? You're never quite sure what you're going to get. If you don't want an LGBTQ+ child, use a condom!"

-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

"Imagine feeling like—on top of being a quirk of nature—you also have to battle your parents. Well, that just makes a tough situation tougher."

-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

Cover of In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life by Jamie Windust

15. In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life

By: Jamie Windust

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

There is no one way to be non-binary, and that's truthfully one of the best things about it. It's a… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Windust's In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Asking us to push away the very walls that are constantly crushing us into small, confined boxes is toxic."

-Jamie Windust, In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life

"The current socio-political climate, exacerbated by the media's addiction to falsifying our existence, has meant that being trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming in the twenty-first century feels li…"

-Jamie Windust, In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life

Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

16. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • memoir
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
Cover of In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies by Dianna E. Anderson

17. In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies

By: Dianna E. Anderson

4.11

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through … read more

Similar categories in Dianna E. Anderson's In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar by Harry  Nicholas

18. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

By: Harry Nicholas

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more

Similar categories in Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy by T. C. Oakes-Monger

19. All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

By: T. C. Oakes-Monger

4.52

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An uplifting and beautifully crafted collection of stories that celebrate the joy of being trans. W… read more

Similar categories in T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self by Rae  McDaniel

20. Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

By: Rae McDaniel

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving gender freedom with joy, curiosity, and pleasure f… read more

Similar categories in Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of To Be A Trans Man by Ezra Woodger

21. To Be A Trans Man

By: Ezra Woodger

4.08

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Men in all stages of transition have come and gone from my life, and each one has been entirely dif… read more

Similar categories in Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man book and Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • queer

5 Best adult books like Gender Euphoria by Laura Kate Dale

Transform Your Habits

Gender Euphoria

Laura Kate Dale

4.11

Transform Your Habits

He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

Schuyler Bailar

4.62

Transform Your Habits

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

Alice Wong

4.30

Transform Your Habits

A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

Harry Nicholas

4.07

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Laura Kate Dale

4.11

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Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

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Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

Curtis Chin

3.80

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