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  1. A Man's Tale

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Pepper, John
    Date: 1982
    Topics: Authors, Broadcasters, Cartoonists, Crossdressing, Femininities, LGBTQ+ Buddhists
    Description: A Man's Tale is an autobiography by British writer, cartoonist, and broadcaster John Pepper, who sometimes took on the feminine persona of Angela Summerfields. Pepper's understanding of the masculi...

  2. A mechanical and critical enquiry into the nature of hermaphrodites

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator: Parsons, James
    Date: 1741
    Topics: Intersex, Medicalization
    Subject: Androgyni, Hans Sloane, The Royal Society of London
    Description: This scientific treatises on intersex people presents a historical and biological overview. While motivated by reductive understandings of bodies and reproducing objectifying understandings of inte...

  3. Art & Illusion: A Guide to Crossdressing, Vol. 2

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Roberts, JoAnn
    Date: 2000
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Lingerie, Passing (Gender)
    Description: This is the third edition of the second volume of Art and Illusion: A Guide to Crossdressing.

  4. Art & Illusion: A Guide to Crossdressing, Vol. 3

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Roberts, JoAnn
    Date: 2000
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Femininities, Passing (Gender), Role behavior, Transgender people
    Description: This is the first edition of the third volume of Art and Illusion: A Guide to Crossdressing.

  5. Art and Illusion: a Guide to Crossdressing

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Roberts, JoAnn
    Date: 1986
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Passing (Gender)
    Description: This is the first edition of Art and Illusion: A Guide to Crossdressing

  6. Artificial Rejuvenation and Voluntary Change of Sex: According to Professor Steinach

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Penn, Henry S., Ishlondsky, N.E., Steinach, Eugen
    Date: 1926
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Health sciences, Hormones, Medical interventions, Transsexualism
    Subject: Brown Sequard, Eugen Steinach, Fiebiger, Magnus Hirschfeld, Otto Weininger, Romeis, Élie Metchnikoff

  7. Autobiography of an Androgyne

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Duke University
    Creator: Lind, Earl
    Date: 1918
    Topics: Female impersonators, Third gender

  8. Catherine Littlefield Greene, and other stories

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Haley, John Williams
    Date: 1929
    Topics: Agender identity, Cotton gins and ginning, Religious leaders, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
    Subject: Public Universal Friend
    Description: A short book narrating stories from Rhode Island history, including the life of Catherine Littlefield Greene and her work alongside her husband, General Nathanael Greene, during the Revolutionary W...

  9. From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sullivan, Lou
    Date: 1990
    Topics: Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Spanish-American War, 1898, Transmasculine people
    Subject: Allan Berube, Babe Bean, Harry Benjamin, Jack Garland, James H. Budd, Mary L. Haines, Masquerade laws, Richard von Krafft-Ebing
    Description: A book written by Lou Sullivan detailing the life of Jack Bee Garland. The book excerpts numerous historical sources and reproduces a number of images.

  10. Glossographia

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Blount, Thomas
    Date: 1656
    Topics: Transfemininity, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Sir Thomas Browne
    Description: On the page with the signature Rr4v, the words "Transection" and "Transfeminate" are defined. Both terms are attributed to "Dr. Br." in reference to the physician and influential writer Sir Thomas ...

  11. History of Jemima Wilkinson: a preacheress of the eighteenth century; containing an authentic narrative of her life and character, and of the rise, progress and conclusion of her ministry

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Hudson, David
    Date: 1821
    Topics: Agender identity, LGBTQ+ religious people, Non-binary people, Religious leaders
    Subject: Public Universal Friend
    Description: An early biography of the Public Universal Friend (1752-1819), an American evangelist who did not identify with any gender or pronouns.

  12. I Never Asked to Be Born: The Carol Durrell Story

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Durrell, Carol
    Date: circa 1990 to circa 2000
    Topics: Black transgender people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ musicians, Police entrapment of LGBTQ+ people, Police violence toward LGBTQ+ people , Trans women
    Subject: Carol Durrell
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to child abuse and sexual assault. The autobiography of Carol Durrell (1945-2012), later known as Carolyn D. Rothschild, a ...

  13. Information for the Female-to-Male Crossdresser and Transsexual

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sullivan, Louis G.
    Date: 1985
    Topics: Crossdressers, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Hormone therapy, Passing (Gender), Sexual relationships, Transsexual people
    Subject: A Man Like Eva, Alan L. Hart, Calamity Jane, Charley Wilson, Colonel Sir Victor Barker, I Want What I Want, Jack Bee Garland, James Barry, Mary Walker, Milton B. Matson, Murray H. Hall, Ralph Kerwinieo, Sylvia Scarlett, Vesta Tilley, Yentl
    Description: Published in 1985 and authored by L. Sullivan, “Information for the Female-to-Male Crossdresser and Transsexual” is a handbook that provides general advice for those who identify along the female-t...

  14. Journal of a Transsexual

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Feinberg, Leslie
    Date: Feb. 1980
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Femininities, FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, Hair, Harassment, Hormones, LGBTQ+ employment, Masculinities, Mastectomy, Misgendering, Passing (Gender), Police harassment, Public bathrooms, Sexual identity, Social norms, Transsexual people, Voice, Working class writings
    Subject: Bob McCubbin, Dorothy Ballan, Feminism and Marxism, In the Spirit of Stonewall, Leslie Feinberg, New Jersey Supreme Court, Robert Frost, The Gay Question: A Marxist Appraisal, The Road Not Taken, Workers World Newspaper, Workers World Party
    Description: A short theoretical piece in the form of a memoir by Leslie Feinberg, published in 1980. This work was Feinberg's first public attempt to put forward a political stance on trans liberation outside ...

  15. Mei Lan-Fang: Chinese Drama

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1930
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Operas, Chinese
    Subject: Mei Lanfang
    Description: A souvenir program from Mei Lanfang's first American tour, 1930. The program includes articles about Chinese drama, costumes, stage properties, musical instruments, and synopsis of touring repertoi...