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The
TGE Library List
Biographies
& Autobiographies
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| As
Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl |
| by
John Colapinto - Unknown - ISBN: 0060192119 - February 2, 2000 |
| 'As
Nature Made Him' is the story of David Reimer who's botched circumcision
as a baby results in him living the first 14 years of his life as a girl.
Yet at age 14, he makes the decision to live life as a male. David's early
life was used as the example that gender identity was based on physical
biology/nurture, but the reality of his life demonstrates the flaw in this
concept. A powerful story. |
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| Cherry
Single: A Transvestite Coming of Age |
| by
Valory Gravois - Unknown - ISBN: 0960065059 - December 1997 |
| Even
in San Francisco in the roaring 70s, coming out as a transvestite has its
ups and downs. A young government clerk likes to dress up and share his
penchant with his lovers, all the while striving to become the photographer
of his dreams. |
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| Christine
Jorgensen : A Personal Autobiography |
| by
Christine Jorgensen, Susan Stryker (Introduction) - Cleis Pr - ISBN:
1573441007 - October 2000 |
| Christine
Jorgensen's 1967 autobiography is a straightforward account of growing
up as a boy with much inner conflict. It goes on to cover the decision
to have the surgery, the procedure itself, and her successful career as
a Las Vegas entertainer. This reprint contains a new introduction by gay
historian Susan Stryker. |
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| Crossing
: A Memoir |
| by
Deirdre N. McCloskey - University of Chicago Press (Trd) - ISBN: 0226556697
- October 2000 |
| Memoir
chronicles Deirdre McCloskey's transformation from Donald McCloskey, economist
at the University of Iowa and married father of two, into the woman he
finally accepted he had always wanted to be, an exceptionally well-written
presentation of the difficult road a transgendered person must travel to
define his/her place in the world. |
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| Dear
Sir or Madam : The Autobiography of a Female-To-Male Transsexual |
| by Mark Nicholas Alban Rees
- Cassell Academic - ISBN: 0304333948 - March 1999 |
| Autobiographical
account of the author's life, named Brenda at birth and anatomically female,
he always felt as if he were a male trapped in a woman's body. This book
is good reading material for people just beginning their transition, their
friends, family, and supporters. |
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| I
Am My Own Woman : The Outlaw Life of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, Berlin's
Most Distinguished Transvestite |
| by
Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, Jean Hollander (Translator), Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf
- Cleis Pr - ISBN: 1573440108 - September 1995 |
| Autobiography
of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (nee Lothar Berfelde) who has lived openly as
a transvestite since the 1940s. In high-heeled sandals and a good suit,
Charlotte collected ornate, hand-crafted antiques of the Grunderzeit period
through the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the GDR, and into the unified
Federal Republic of Germany. The subject of an acclaimed film by Rosa von
Praunheims. |
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| Lieutenant
Nun : Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World |
| by
Catalina De Erauso, Michele Stepto (Translator), Gabriel Stepto (Translator),
Catalina De Erauso, Marjorie Garber, Gabri Stepto - Beacon Pr - ISBN: 0807070734
- June 1997 |
| Marjorie
Garber provides a lively introduction to this picaresque autobiography
of a 17th-century nun turned cross-dressing soldier. De Erauso's story
itself is a swashbuckler's catalogue of sword fights, daring escapes, damsels
in distress, and witty repartee. Even if only half of what de Erauso claims
about herself is true, it's a life well worth remembering and an utterly
wonderful read. |
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| Man
Enough to Be Woman |
| by
Jayne County, Rupert Smith (Contributor), Jane County - Serpents Tail -
ISBN: 1852423382 - April 1996 |
| The
memoirs of a '70s punk/drag sub-icon Wayne/Jayne County. |
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| The
Woman I Was Not Born to Be : A Transsexual Journey |
| by Aleshia Brevard - Temple
Univ Press - ISBN: 1566398401 - February 2001 |
| The
autobiography of Aleshia Brevard (n‚ Alfred Crenshaw) B movie actress and
drag-show entertainer, she relates the story of her remarkable life in
sometimes funny, sometimes painful detail, from her gender-reassignment
surgery and its aftermath to her stereotypically feminine employment (she
was a Playboy Bunny for a time) and her three unhappy marriages. |
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General
Transgender Subjects
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| Art
and Illusion: A Guide to Crossdressing, Vol. 1, Face & Hair |
| by
Joann Roberts - Creative Design Services - ISBN: 1880715058 - October 1994 |
| The
book is small at just forty pages, but this is useful, it truly is an intruction
manual! In this volume author Jo Ann Roberts gives step by step advice
for transforming the male face into a female face. |
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| Body
Alchemy : Transsexual Portraits |
| by Loren Cameron (Photographer)
- Cleis Pr - ISBN: 1573440620 - November 1996 |
| A
collection of transsexual photos complemented with notes and short essays,
these portraits of women who are now men may startle, but they will also
make you marvel at the genuine complexities of life, sex, and desire. |
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| Cross
Dressing, Sex, and Gender |
| by
Vern L. Bullough, Bonnie Bullough (Editor) - Unknown - ISBN: 0812214315
- March 1993 |
| This
book might be a textbook for a first level graduate course in gender variance.
If you've already read a lot on the subject, this book will help you to
organize your thoughts (and your library). |
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| Crossdressing
With Dignity : The Case for Transcending Gender Lines |
| by
Peggy J. Rudd - Pm Pub - ISBN: 0962676268 - April 1999 |
| Is
society ready for men who openly express femininity? Can men transcend
gender lines and maintain their sense of self-worth and dignity? These
are the questions asked to over 850 crossdressers worldwide in a survey
used as the basis of this book. |
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| Current
Concepts in Transgender Identity (Garland Reference Library of Social Science,
Vol 976) |
| by Dallas Denny (Editor)
- Garland Pub - ISBN: 081531793X - March 1998 |
| A
dialogue on the phenomenon of "transgender identity" over the course of
the past half-century, including perspectives from clinical research professionals
on the assessment and treatment of "gender dysphoria / Gender Identity
Disorder", sociological studies, and accounts of the life experiences of
actual transsexual and transgendered people. |
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| FTM:
Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society |
| by
Holly Devor - Indiana University Press - ISBN: 0253212596 - March 1999 |
| The
author of the groundbreaking book Gender Blending, here turns her attention
to the little-known world of female-to-male transsexuals. Who are they?
How do they come to know themselves as transsexual? What do they do about
it? How do their families cope? Who loves them? |
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| Gender
Blending : Transvestism (Cross-Dressing), Gender Hersey, Androgyny, Religion
& the Cross-Dresser, Transgender Healthcare, Free Expression, Sex |
| by Bonnie Bullough (Editor),
et al - Prometheus Books - ISBN: 1573921246 - March 1997 |
| A
compendium of papers presented at a symposium sponsored by California State
University's Center for Sex Research combining research reports, case histories,
and personal narratives presenting an image of transgender phenomena across
centuries and cultures, from Joan of Arc to Native American peoples to
present-day Brazil, Indonesia, Costa Rica and the U.S. |
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| Gender
Outlaw : On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us |
| by
Kate Bornstein - Vintage Books - ISBN: 0679757015 - April 1995 |
| A
thoughtful challenge to gender ideology that continually asks difficult
questions about identity, orientation, and desire. Bornstein cleverly incorporates
cultural criticism, dramatic writing, and autobiography to make her point
that gender (which she distinguishes from sex) is a cultural rather than
a natural phenomenon. |
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| Lessons
from the Intersexed |
| by
Suzanne J. Kessler - Rutgers Univ Press - ISBN: 0813525306 - August 1998 |
| An
excellent book on the "gender theory". Kessler tells us the intersexed
"real lives stories" of pain and suffering. |
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| Miss
Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls |
| by
Veronica Vera - Doubleday - ISBN: 0385484569 - November 1997 |
| Veronica
Vera is an artist, sex activist, and founder of the world's first cross-dressing
academy, a truly fabulous institution that has been serving the unique
educational needs of "boys who want to be girls" since 1992. |
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| Second
Skins (A Gender and Culture Reader) |
| by
Jay Prosser - Columbia Univ Pr - ISBN: 0231109350 - May 1998 |
| A
bit on the intellectual side, this book is based on the author's PhD thesis
study of the transgendered subject, drawing on an array of autobiographical
accounts by transsexuals to re-think, for our time, descriptive categories
that enmesh sexuality with gender. |
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| The
Drag King Book |
| by
Del LaGrace Volcano (Photographer), Judith Jack Halberstam - Consortium
Book Sales & Dist - ISBN: 1852426071 - August 1999 |
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| The
Drag Queen's Cookbook & Guide to Sensible Living |
| by
Honey Van Campe, Winter C. Neil (Editor), Walter Thomson (Photographer)
- Pontalba Press - ISBN: 096531457X - September 1997 |
| Do
the words outrageous, hilarious, scandalous entice you at all? If so, pick
up the Drag Queen's Cookbook & Guide to Sensible Living. Honey van
Campe, the 'nom de drag' of the author serves up a delightful step by step
approach to the making of the ultimate transvestite. |
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| The
Transgender Debate |
| by Stephen Whittle - Garnet
Pub Ltd; ISBN: 1902932161 - May 2001 |
| Stephen
Whittle is a transman, who transitioned into the male role over 25 years
ago, in this book he addresses the historical, social, legal and medical
issues surrounding the transgender community. |
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| The
Uninvited Dilemma : A Question of Gender |
| by
Kim Elizabeth Stuart - Metamorphous Press - ISBN: 1555520138 - December
1991 |
| Different
from the autobiographies and clinical studies on transsexuality, "The Uninvited
Dilemma" represents two years of research involving carefully structured,
in-depth personal interviews with seventy-five transsexuals, consultations
with members of the medical and mental health communities, as well as conversations
with loved ones of transsexuals. |
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SOFFA
Topics
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| Coping
With Crossdressing |
| by
Joann Roberts - Creative Design Services; ISBN: 1880715120 - July 1991 |
| Well
written with clear descriptions of terminology. For anyone in a relationship
with a crossdresser, this book provides insight and compassionate suggestions
for dealing with the situation. |
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| Trans
Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones |
| by
Mary Boenke - Waterford Press - ISBN: 0966327217 - January 1999 |
| One
of the most powerful books ever written on how families deal with a transgendered
child, spouse, or other family member, this book is a ollection of stories
by parents of adult transgenders, mothers of very young gender variant
children, spouses and partners, and even by grandparents, siblings and
friends. |
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| Transsexual
Workers: An Employer's Guide |
| by Janis Walworth - Center
for Gender Sanity - ISBN: 0966548809 - August 1998 |
| Information
for employers, managers, human resources personnel, implementers of employee
assistance programs, and others in a position to make workplace decisions
about how to handle a transsexual employee's transition from one sex to
the other. |
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| True
Selves : Understanding Transsexualism - For Families, Friends, Coworkers,
and Helping Professionals |
| by
Mildred L. Brown, Chloe Ann Rounsley - Jossey-Bass - ISBN: 0787902713 -
December 1996 |
| A
solid introduction to many aspects of living as a transsexual providing
general information about the dilemma of feeling trapped in the wrong physical
gender, about such a person's development, transition between genders,
legal and identity changes, changing outward modes of self-presentation,
including sample "coming-out" letters to employers, coworkers, friends,
and family members. |
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| Working
with a Transsexual: A Guide for Coworkers |
| by Janis Walworth - Center
for Gender Sanity - ISBN: 0966548817 - October 1999 |
| A
short, easy-to-read source of information for people who have a transsexual
in their workplace. It conveys a basic understanding of transsexualism
and transition and answers questions that coworkers typically ask. |
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Transgender
Fiction
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| Best
Transgender Erotica |
| by Hanne Blank (Editor)
- Circlet Pr - ISBN: 1885865406 - September 2001 |
| Twenty
stories by writers of every gender. The first book to celebrate exclusively
gender-bending, -crossing, and -breaking sexuality through erotic fiction,
"Best Transgender Erotica" includes representations of many forms of `trans`
identity. |
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| The
Danish Girl : A Novel |
| by
David Ebershoff - Penguin USA (Paper) - ISBN: 0140298487 - February 2001 |
| Though
the title character of David Ebershoff's debut novel is a transsexual,
the book is less concerned with transgender issues than the mysterious
and ineffable nature of love. Loosely based on the life of Danish painter
Einar Wegener who, in 1931, became the first man to undergo a sex-change
operation. |
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| The
Transsexual Empire : The Making of the She-Male (Athene, No 39) |
| by Janice G. Raymond - Teachers
College Pr - ISBN: 0807762725 - March 1994 |
| Not
originally intended as fiction, but this radical feminist work which borders
on delusional can only be taken seriously as a work of crank fiction since
it is almost entirely devoid of facts. Would you really believe transsexuals
are an insidious male plot to undermine the women's movement? If so, this
book is for you. |
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Transgender
Politics, Activism & Legal Issues
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| Read
My Lips : Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender |
| by
Riki Anne Wilchins - Firebrand Books; ISBN: 1563410907 - September 1997 |
| Transgender
politics have become the cutting edge of sexual liberation. Riki Anne Wilchins's
Read My Lips is a passionate, witty, and extraordinarily intelligent look
at how society not only creates men and women--ignoring the fluidity of
maleness and femaleness in most people, but also explains how those categories
generate crisis for most individuals. |
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| Sex
Changes : The Politics of Transgenderism |
| by
Pat Califia - Cleis Pr - ISBN: 1573440728 - July 1997 |
| A
frank, forthright, and sometimes funny challenge to the traditional ideas
about gender and sexuality, this book explores the worlds of biology, sociology,
psychology, politics, and life where personal experience is far more complicated
than most people believe and the simple two-gender system most people
accept is more harmful that helpful. |
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| Transgender
Jurisprudence |
| by Andrew Sharpe - Cavendish
Publishing - ISBN: 1859416667 - November 2001 |
| An
exploration of trangender jurisprudence and it's influence on law and politics.
This book moves beyond liberal law reform and is the first to interrogate
the transgender/law relation in a sustained and critical manner that both
compliments and challenges traditional feminist, gay, and lesbian legal
theory and practice. |
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| Transgender
Nation |
| by
Gordene Olga MacKenzie - Popular Press - ISBN: 0879725974 - May 1994 |
| Looks
at the male-to-woman transgenderist and transsexual from a sociological
and sociopolitical perspective, arguing that it is not the individual transgenderists
who are sick and need treatment, but the society that condemns them. |
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| Transgender
Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman |
| by Leslie Feinberg - Beacon
Pr - ISBN: 0807079413 - June 1997 |
| An
overview of the interrelationship of class, nationality, race, sexuality,
and desire, this book examines perceptions of the body, the status of clothing,
and the structures of societies that welcome or are threatened by gender
variance, tracing the history of cross-dressing to make political protests,
to flee to freedom, to entertain as drag queens, and, most recently, to
be transgendered parents. |
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| Trans
Liberation : Beyond Pink or Blue |
| by
Leslie Feinberg - Beacon Pr - ISBN: 0807079510 - October 1999 |
| A
good introduction to Feinberg's ideas about the complexities of gender
expression and to hir (this transgendered author's pronoun of choice) vision
for a future "beyond pink or blue." |
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Transgender
Therapy & Treatment Information
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| Feminizing
Hormonal Therapy For The Transgendered (5th Edition) |
| by
Dr. Sheila Kirk - Together Lifeworks - ISBN: 1887796045 - August 1999 |
| Vital,
accurate and insightful information on safe and effective hormonal regimens,
realistic expectations and possible complications are candidly addressed
by gynecologic surgeon, Sheila Kirk, MD. Natural hormones, measurement
and self-exam guidelines and answers to the most commonly asked questions
are also featured. |
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| Gender
Loving Care: A Guide to Counseling Gender-Variant Clients |
| by
Randi Ettner, George R. Brown - W.W. Norton & Company - ISBN: 0393703045
- May 1999 |
| Using
stories of her own practice in Evanston, Illinois, Ettner, president of
the New Health Foundation, provides an overview of gender identity disorders
and advice on counseling. Of interest to clinicians as well as transgendered
individuals and their families and friends. |
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Transsexual
Transition Guides
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| Medical,
Legal and Workplace Issues For The Transsexual |
| by Sheila Kirk M.D. - Together
Lifeworks - ISBN: 1887796002 - December 1995 |
| Comprehensive
and accurate information addressing the medical, legal and workplace issues
encountered through every phase of the transition process. From the "real-life
test", surgical, medical and legal concerns, to the start of life "thereafter",
this book provides the necessary tools and information to make transitioning
proceed smoothly and successfully. |
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| The
Transsexual's Survival Guide : To Transition & Beyond |
| by Joann Altman Stringer
- Creative Design Services - ISBN: 188071504X - August 1990 |
| This
book comes in two volumes and contains practical advice on everything from
self discovery, therapy, financing transition, electrolysis, legal issues,
finding a job, socializing in your new gender, and telling family and friends. |
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Out
of Print Titles
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| A
Man : The Transsexual Journey of an Agent Provocateur |
| by
Max Wolf Valerio - ASIN: 0688142737 |
| A
provocative autobiography of a transsexual describes how and why a thirty-two-year-old
woman decided to become a man and explains how not only her body changed
but her feelings, sexual urgency, and sociability. |
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| Canary
: The Story of a Transsexual |
| by Canary Conn - ASIN: 084021345X |
| Canary
provides an intimate look and understanding of the life and struggles of
a young transsexual in 1970's LA. |
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| Conundrum |
| by
Jan Morris - ASIN: 0805003614 |
| This
book is not only about transexuality, it is about becoming one with oneself,
becoming what one truly is, in body and in spirit. |
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| Finer
Specimen of Womanhood : A Transsexual Speaks Out |
| by
Sharon Davis - ASIN: 0533061784 |
| Most
of the information provided about transsexuality is provided from the point
of view of the European or Caucasian. Sharon Davis is African American,
and writes from the perspective of an individual who is discriminated against
and oppressed not only for her choice of gender but also for the color
of her skin. |
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| Mirrors
: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual |
| by Geri Nettick - ASIN:
1563334356 |
| The
alternately heartbreaking and empowering story of one woman's long road
to full selfhood. Born a male, Geri Nettick knew something just didn't
fit. And even after coming to terms with her own gender dysphoria, and
taking steps to correct it, she still fought to be accepted by the lesbian
feminist community to which she felt she belonged. |
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| Second
Serve |
| by
Renee Richards - ASIN: 0812880757 |
| Autobiography
by transsexual tennis player/surgeon Renee Richards. |
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Audio
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Audio
Selections
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| Trans-Sister
Radio |
| by
Chris Bohjalian - Random House AudioBooks - 2000 |
| Four
people in a small Vermont village are about to have their lives inexorably
intertwined by the uncertainties of love...and the apparent absolutes of
gender. |
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Video
Selections
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| Boys
Don't Cry (1999) |
| Hilary
Swank, Chloë Sevigny, et al. |
| This
fascinating story was based on real-life events (as documented in The Brandon
Teena Story) that occurred in 1993 and ended in tragedy: Brandon's rape
and murder by two of his supposed friends. |
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| Different
For Girls (1997) |
| Steven
Mackintosh, Rupert Graves, et al. |
| Intended
as a romantic comedy, the actor in this movie portrays the transsexual
character Kim very realisticly. An appealing story. |
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| Ma
Vie En Rose (My Life in Pink) (1997) - English subtitles |
| Michèle
Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, et al. |
| One
of the sweetest films to emerge from Europe in the 1990s, Alain Berliner's
Ma Vie en Rose is the story of an innocent little boy, Ludovic (played
with noncloying directness by Georges Du Fresne), who wants to be a girl. |
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| The
Brandon Teena Story (1998) |
| Gréta
Olafsdóttir, Susan Muska |
| This
true story, which was the basis for the feature film Boys Don't Cry, is
recounted in the award-winning (Best Documentary at both the Vancouver
and Berlin film festivals) documentary The Brandon Teena Story. |
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