The TGD Resource Guide

A resource guide for trans and gender diverse people living in Australia.

TGD History

Archives

Australian Queer Archives – both a digital and physical archive of queer life in Australia. Based in the Pride Centre in St Kilda.
Digital Transgender Archive – an international, digital archive of TGD life.
Leslie Feinberg – a digital collection of hir writing and life.
Lili Elbe Digital Archive – a digital archive on Lili Elbe, including multiple editions and translations of Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex.
Public Domain Library – A collection of queer books that are in the public domain.
QZAP – Zine Archive – A digital archive of queer zines.
Theo’s Transgender Link Library – A collection of trans and gender non-conforming content that’s free to watch and read.

Articles

‘Finding Transgender Ancestors, or ‘Transcestors’, in Early-Modern Australia‘ by Cristina Cabrera-Ayers

Other Resources

Victoria’s Transgender History – A report by Noah Riseman.
NSW Trans History – A report by Noah Riseman.

(Auto)Biographies

  • Colouring The Rainbow: Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives – Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia edited by Dino Hodge
  • Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender-Diverse Australia edited by Sam Elkin, Alex Gallagher, Yves Rees and Bobuq Sayed
  • Growing Up Queer in Australia edited by Benjamin Law
  • Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives edited by Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferrentini
  • Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-Khadi
  • At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons From a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery by Shou Arai
  • A Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate Bornstein
  • Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote
  • I Know Very Well How I Got My Name by Elliott DeLine
  • All the Beginnings: A Queer Autobiography of the Body by Quinn Eades
  • Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga by Sam Elkin
  • Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green
  • Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
  • The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
  • Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
  • All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
  • Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery
  • Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery
  • All About Yves: Notes from a Transition by Yves Rees
  • Gender Failure by Rae Spoon and Ivan E. Coyote
  • Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Womanby Abby Stein
  • Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia
  • Yes, You Are Trans Enough – My Transition from Self-Loathing to Self-Love by Mia Violet
  • As Beautiful as Any Other by Kaya Wilson
  • Finding Nevo by Nevo Zisin

Reading List

  • Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker
  • Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past by Peter Boag
  • The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun
  • Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg
  • Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability by Jack Halberstam
  • Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
  • Female Husbands by Jen Manion
  • We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma
  • Her Husband Was a Woman!: Women’s Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture by Alison Oram
  • Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
  • Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910 by Noah Riseman
  • True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Emily Skidmore
  • Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker
  • Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne edited by Graham Willett, Wayne Murdoch and Daniel Marshall

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