Cassie’s List of Books and Movies

Below is a list of books that I have read and can recommend to the reader who wishes to read more on the subject of transsexuals and their condition. The first four books listed below are ones that I strongly recommend. The titles are links to web pages at Amazon.com, if the book is listed there.

True Selves -- Understanding Transsexualism (for Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals)
Author: Mildred Brown & Chloe Ann Rounsley
Published by: Jossey-Bass Inc.
Copyright: 1996

Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones
Author: Mary Boenke, Editor
Published by: Walter Trook Publishing
Copyright: 1999

Confessions of a Gender Defender
Author: Randi Ettner, Ph.D.
Published by: Chicago Spectrum Press
Copyright: 1996

Transsexuals: Candid Answers to Private Questions
Author: Dr. Gerald Ramsey
Published by: Crossing Press
Copyright: 1996

Biographical or Autobiographical

My Story
Author: Caroline Cossey
Published by: Faber & Faber
Copyright: 1992

Once I Was A Man - Behold, I Am A Woman
Author: Dianna as told to Felicity Cochrane
Published by: Pyramid Books
Copyright: 1972

Conundrum Author: Jan Morris
Published by: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Copyright: 1974
(Republished in May 2006 by NYRB Classics.)

As Nature Made Him - The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl
Author: John Colapinto
Published by: Harper Collins (2000), Harper Perennial (2001)
Copyright: 2000

Medical, Psychological or Scientific In Nature

The Transsexual Phenomenon (Link is to online copy of the book.)
Author: Harry Benjamin, M.D. (Name appears as Henry Benjamin, M. D. on the book.)
Published by: Ace Publishing Corp.
Copyright: 1966

In Search of Eve - Transsexual Rites of Passage
Author: Anne Bolin
Published by: Bergin & Garvey
Copyright: 1988

The Uninvited Dilemma - A Question of Gender
Author: Kim Elizabeth Stuart
Published by: Metamorphous Press
Copyright: 1991

The Uninvited Dilemma Research Supplement
Author: Kim Elizabeth Stuart
Published by: Metamorphous Press
Copyright: 1983

Feminizing Hormonal Therapy For The Transgendered
Author: Dr. Sheila Kirk
Published by: Together Lifeworks
Copyright: 1999

Sociological or Political In Nature

Changes . . . - Understanding the Gender-Role Transition
Information for Co-Workers, Family and Friends of an individual going through a Gender-Role Transition
Author: Dana Cole
Copyright: 1992

Working With A Transsexual
Author: Janis Walworth
Published by: Center for Gender Sanity
Copyright: 1999

Transsexual Workers: An Employer’s Guide
Author: Janis Walworth
Published by: Center for Gender Sanity
Copyright: 2003

Sex Changes - The Politics of Transgenderism
Author: Pat Califia
Published by: Cleis Press
Copyright: 1997

Movies That I Recommend

Boys Don't Cry
Starring Hilary Swank as a pre-op female-to-male who was savagely beaten and murdered in 1993. Based on the life of Brandon in Nebraska, USA. May he find eternal peace.
Internet Movie Database description
1999, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Different For Girls
Starring Steven Mackintosh as Kim Foyle, a post-op male-to-female who meets a former schoolmate seventeen years after the two were expelled from school for presumed homosexuality.
Internet Movie Database description
1996, Fox Lorber Films

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Terence Stamp plays Bernadette, a post-op male-to-female transsexual who travels with two gay men from Sydney, Australia to Alice Springs, to perform in a drag show.
Internet Movie Database description
2000, MGM Home Entertainment Inc.

Billy Elliot
Although this movie is not about transsexuality, I found it appropriate to include in my list since Billy fights societal bigotry to pursue his calling.
Internet Movie Database description
2001, Universal Studios

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