Gender Diversity

Kit Heyam challenges modern, white, medicalized origin stories of gender variance while demonstrating how to write trans history without imposing definitive identities on people in the past.

Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth, this community resource brings trans-authored knowledge across health, law, family, and everyday life while naming its North American limits.

Jen Manion reconstructs the lives called “female husbands” in Britain and the United States, asking how marriage, labor, class, and the press produced gender.

Trans and queer accounts expose how policing and prisons enforce gender binaries, linking gender liberation with prison abolition.

A foundational text of the transgender rights movement, exploring the oppressive nature of gender binaries and advocating for the liberation of all gender expressions.