the Vivek Shraya
Lending Library
Provided through Partnership with: Indigo Love of Reading Foundation
The Vivek Shraya lending library hosts an extensive collection of books featuring trans and gender diverse authors, protagonists and/or content carefully curated by trans and gender diverse identified staff members at Skipping Stone.
All of the links below connect through to book descriptions on Indigo.ca where you can learn more about them.
All of these books are available to borrow from our library housed at the Skipping Stone office.
You can email us here for more info.
Quick links:
Books for Kiddos
Books for Teens / Young Adults
Books for Adults
Resource Books
For Kids
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Alice on the Outside
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Addie on the Inside
James Howe
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Better Nate Than Ever
Tim Federle
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Nate Expectations
Tim Federle
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Gracefully Grayson
Ami Polonsky
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George
Alex Gino
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Ashes to Asheville
Sarah Dooley
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Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
Ashley Herring Blake
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Drum Roll, Please
Lisa Jenn Bigelow
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The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate
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Gabi, A Girl in Pieces
Isabel Quintero
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Parrotfish
Ellen Wittlinger
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Beyond the Gender Binary
Alok Vaid-Menon
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A Boy Named Queen
Sara Cassidy
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Deadendia: The Broken Halo
Hamish Steele
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Deadendia: The Watcher's Test
Hamish Steele
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Some Assembly Required
Arin Andrews
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The Letter Q
James Lecesne & Sarah Moon
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Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition
Katie Rain Hill
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47,000 Beads
Koja Adeyoha & Angel Adeyoha
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A Tale of Two Daddies
Vanita Oelschlager
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A Tale of Two Mommies
Vanita Oelschlager
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A House for Everyone
Jo Hirst
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A Familiy is a Family is a Family
Sara O'Leary
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My Princess Boy
Cheryl Kilodavis
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Perfectly Norman
Tom Percival
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From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea
Kai Cheng Thom
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The Skin you Live in
Michael Tyler
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Are you a Boy or a Girl?
Sarah Savage & Fox Fisher
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Jerome by Heart
Thomas Scotto
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Monday is One Day
Arthur A. Levine
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Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
Christine Baldacchino
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Antiracist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi
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I am Jazz
Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings
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It's Okay to be Different
Todd Parr
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Red: A Crayon's Story
Michael Hall
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Call me Tree
Maya Christina Gonzalez
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ABC: A Family Alphabet Book
Bobbie Combs
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All are Welcome
Alexandra Penfold & Suzanne Kaufman
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The World Needs More Purple People
Kristen Bell & Benjamin Hart
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Neither
Airlie Anderson
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Introducing Teddy
Jessica Walton
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I am Enough
Grace Byers
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Who Are You?
Brook Pessin-Whedbee
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Julian's a Mermaid
Jessica Love
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Free to Be!
Maya Christina Gonzalez & Matthew Smith-Gonzalez
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Harriet Gets Carried Away
Jessie Sima
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Tinyville Town: I'm a Librarian
Brian Biggs
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Good Night Families
Adam Gamble
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Baby's First Words
Christiane Engel
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The Adventures of Tulip: Birthday Wish Fairy
S. Bear Bergman
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The Royal Heart
Gregory McGoon
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The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish
Lil Miss Hot Mess
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Love Makes a Family
Sophie Beer
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Be You!
Peter H. Reynolds
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Peanut Goes for the Gold
Jonathan Van Ness
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Am Stram Gram
Sophie Labelle
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Rick
Alex Gino
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Phoenix Goes to School
Michelle & Phoenix Finch
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Dragon Pearl
Yoon Ha Lee
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Explosion at the Poem Factory
Kyle Lukoff & Mark Hoffmann
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When Aidan Became a Brother
Kyle Lukoff & Mark Hoffmann
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Rock Painting for Kids
Lin Wellford
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I'm Not a Girl
Maddox Lyons & Jessica Verdi
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My Awesome Brother
Lise Frances
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The New Queer Conscience
Adam Eli
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Being Jazz: My Life as a Transgender Teen
Jazz Jennings
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Rainbow Family Collections
Jamie Campbell Naidoo
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The Ship We Built
Lexie Bean
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Pink is for Boys
Robb Pearlman
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My Dad Thinks I'm a Boy!?
Sophie Labelle
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The Other Boy
M. G. Hennessey
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Hero
Perry Moore
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It Feels Good to Be Yourself
Theresa Thorn
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The Pronoun Book
Cassandra Jules Corrigan
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Growing Up Trans in our Own Words
Dr. Lindsay Herriot and Kate Fry
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It's So Amazing!
Robie H Harris, Michael Emberley
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Jamie & Bubbie
Afsaneh Moradian
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Both Can Be True
Jules Machias
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My Own Way
Joana Estrela
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My Maddy
Gayle E Pitman
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Jacob's School Play Starring He, She, and They
Ian Hoffman, Sarah Hoffman
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What Are your Words?
Katherine Locke
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Dolls And Trucks Are For Everyone
Robb Pearlman
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The Fabulous Zed Watson!
Basil Sylvester, Kevin Sylvester
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Ana On The Edge
A.J. Sass
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The Book Of Dares
Ted Bunch, Anna Marie Johnson Teague
For Teens & Young Adults
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Love is the Higher Law
David Levithan
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Not Your Sidekick
C. B. Lee
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Akata Witch
Nnedi Okorafor
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Radio Silence
Alice Oseman
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None of the Above
I. W. Gregorio
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Girl Mans Up
M-E Girard
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Pet
Akwaeke Emezi
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Geography Club
Brent Hartinger
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Two Boys Kissing
David Levithan
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Felix Ever After
Kacen Callender
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Great
Sara Benincasa
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Leah on the Offbeat
Becky Albertalli
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Last Seen Leaving
Caleb Roehrig
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Dress Codes for Small Towns
Courtney Stevens
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When the Moon was Ours
Anna-Marie McLemore
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They Both Die in the End
Adam Silvera
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Lies We Tell Ourselves
Robin Talley
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It's Not Like It's a Secret
Misa Sugiura
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If I was Your Girl
Meredith Russo
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God Loves Hair
Juliana Neufeld
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The Gender Game
Bella Forrest
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Heartstopper Vol. 3
Alice Oseman
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We Contain Multitudes
Sarah Henstra
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Stay Gold
Tobly McSmith
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Autoboyography
Christina Lauren
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Between Perfect & Real
Ray Stoeve
for Adults
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I'll Give You The Sun
Jandy Nelson
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Annie on my Mind
Nancy Garden
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Into the Blue
Pene Henson
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Dreadnaught
April Daniels
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Freshwater
Akwaeke Emezi
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The Subtweet
Vivek Shraya
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Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan McGuire
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Children of the Broken Treaty
Charlie Angus
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Yes, You Are Trans Enough
Mia Violet
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Almost Perfect
Brian Katcher
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Lizard Radio
Pat Schmatz
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Making Gay History
Eric Marcus
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Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
E. Patrick Johnson
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Exile and Pride
Eli Clare
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Brilliant Imperfection
Eli Clare
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Blue is the Warmest Color
Julie Maroh
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I Hope We Choose Love
Kai Cheng Thom
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Non-binary Lives
Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, et. al.
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Persistance: All Ways Butch & Femme
Ivan E. Coyote & Zena Sharman
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Gender Outlaw
Kate Bornstein
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Dear John, I Love Jane
Dr. Lisa Diamond
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Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
Susan Kuklin
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To Quote a Queer
John Lessard
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Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are
Declan Henry
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Trans-sister Radio
Chris Bohjalian
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Fierce Femmes & Notorious Liars
Kai Cheng Thom
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Becoming Nicole
Amy Ellis Nutt
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Everything Leads to You
Nina Lacour
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Jonny Appleseed
Joshua Whitehead
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True Trans Bike Rebel
Lydia Rogue & Elly Blue
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Trans Like Me
C.N. Lester
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The Black Tides of Heaven
Neon Yang
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The Red Threads of Fortune
Neon Yang
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The Descent of Monsters
Neon Yang
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The Ascent to Godhood
Neon Yang
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Redefining Realness
Janet Mock
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Sovereign Nemesis - Book Two
April Daniels
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The Gender Games
Juno Dawson
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Trans Love
Freiya Benson
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Becoming Eve
Abby Chava Stein
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A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes
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He Said, She Said
Gigi Gorgeous
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe
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When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Nghi Vo
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Nghi Vo
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Women Don't Owe You Pretty
Florence Given
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Transgender Warriors
Leslie Feinberg
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Steel Closets
Anne Balay
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Bold
David Hardy
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Becoming a Visible Man: 2nd Ed.
Jamison Green
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Where's the Mother?
Trevor MacDonald
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Whipping Girl
Julia Serano
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Understanding Transgender Identities
Owen Strachan, et. el.
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She's Not the Man I Married
Helen Boyd
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My Husband Betty
Helen Boyd
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House Wife: Home Re-Making in a Transgender Marriage
Kristin K. Collier
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In a Queer Time & Place
J. Jack Halberstam
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Once a Girl, Always a Boy
Jo Ivester
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TRANS/gressive
Riki Wilchins
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I Promised Not to Tell
Cheryl B. Evans
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The Riddle of Gender
Deborah Rudacille
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Excluded
Julia Serano
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Trans-Galactic Bike Ride
Lydia Rogue & Elly Blue
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The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist
Nancy Hopkins
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Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words
Maxfield Sparrow
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How We Do Family
Trystan Reese
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One Last Stop
Casey McQuinston
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Conventionally Yours
Annabeth Albert
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I'm Afraid of Men
Vivek Shraya
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The Best of Assigned Male
Sophie Labelle
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Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man
Chaz Bono
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Fat & Queer
Bruce Owens Grimm, et. al.
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To My Trans Sisters
Charlie Craggs
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Challenging Genders
Michael Eric Brown, Daywalker Burill
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Queer: A Graphic History
Meg-John Barker, Jules Scheele
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Modern Herstory
Blair Imani
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ACE
Angela Chen
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Sexing the Body
Anne Fausto-Sterling
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Written On The Body
Lexie Bean
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Raising Ollie
Tom Rademacher
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In Their Shoes
Jamie Windust
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Burn The Binary
Riki Wilchins
Resource Books
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Becoming an Ally
Anne Bishop
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How to be an Inclusive Leader
Jennifer Brown
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No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy
Chayanika Shah, et. al.
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Transitions of the Heart
Rachel Pepper
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The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel Van Der Kolk. M. D.
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Raising the Transgender Child
Dr. Michele Angello & Alisa Bowman
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The Gender Creative Child
Diane Ehrensaft, PhD
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Gender Born, Gender Made
Diane Ehrensaft, PhD
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The Transgender Child
Stephanie Brill & Rachel Pepper
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A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities
Mady G. & J. R. Zuckerberg
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Sex is a Funny Word
Cory Silverberg & Fiona Smyth
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Trans Bodies, Trans Selves
Laura Erikson-Schroth
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The Art Book
Lee Beard, Adam Butler, et. al.
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The Body is Not an Apology
Sonya Renee Taylor
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GAYBCs: A Queer Alphabet
Rae Congdon
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Transgender History
Susan Stryker
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Histories of the Transgender Child
Julian Gill-Peterson
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Understanding Gender Dysphoria
Mark A. Yarhouse
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Transgender 101
Nicholas M. Teich
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You're in the Wrong Bathroom
Laura Erikson-Schroth & Laura A. Jacobs
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Trans*
Brynn Tannehill
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The Trans Partner Handbook
Jo Green
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The Gay Agenda
Ashley Molesso & Chess Needham
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Life Isn't Binary
Meg-John Barker & Alex Iantaffi
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Gender: A Graphic Guide
Meg-John Barker & Jules Scheele
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The Gender Quest Workbook
Rylan Jay Testa, Deborah Coolhart, & Jayme Peta
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You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery
Dara Hoffman-Fox
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On the Couch with Dr. Angello
Michelle Angello
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Ask Me About Polyamory!
Tikva Wolf
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The Full Spectrum
David Levithan & Billy Merrell
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Transgender Teen Handbook
Stephanie Brill & Lisa Kenney
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The ABC's of LGBT+
Ashley Mardell
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Supporting Young Transgender Men
Matthew Waites
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Supporting Transgender and Non-binary People with Disabilities or Illnesses
Jennie Kermode
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Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults
Finn V. Gratton
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How to They/Them
Stuart Getty
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Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Students and Staff in Further and Higher Education
Matson Lawrence & Stephanie Mckendry
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Supporting Transgender & Gender Creative Youth
Elizabeth J. Meyer & Annie Pullen Sansfacon
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Trans Kids and Teens
Elijah C. Nealy
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True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism
Mildred L. Brown & Chloe Ann Rousley
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S.E.X. Sexuality Guide - Teens & Twenties
Heather Corinna
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Let's Talk About It
Erika Moen & Matthew Nolan
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How to Understand Your Gender
Alex Iantaffi & Meg-John Barker
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The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability
Miriam Kaufman, et. al.
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A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability
A. Andrews
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A Quick & Easy Guide to Consent
Isabella Rotman
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A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson
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Thriving Through Transition
Denise O'Doherty
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Not Him Or Her; Accepting And Loving My Non-Binary Child
Michelle Mann
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Not Him Or Her; Supporting My Non-Binary Child
Michelle Mann
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You Know, Sex
Cory Silverberg, Fiona Smyth
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Trans+
Kathryn Gonzales, Karen Rayne
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Extra Bold
Ellen Lipton, Farrah Kafei, Jennifer Tobias, Josh A Halstead, Kaleena Sales, Leslie Xia, Valentina Vergara
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The Autistic Trans Guide To Life
Yen Purkins, Wenn Lawson
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Badass Affirmations
Becca Anderson
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Supporting Queer Birth
AJ Silver
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Healing Collective Trauma
Thomas Hubl
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Queer Sex
Juno Roche
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Your Pelvic Health Book
Jen Torborg