Read-alikes

Fiction
  • The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
  • Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
  • Little Fish by Casey Plett
  • Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin
  • Annabel by Kathleen Winter
  • Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
​Biography/Memoir
  • A Year Without a Name by Cyrus Grace Dunham
  • Once a Girl, Always a Boy: a Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey by Jo Ivester
  • Being Jazz: My Life as a (transgender) teen by Jazz Jennings
  • Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, loss, and the fight for trans equality by Sarah McBride
  • Becoming Nicole : the transformation of an American family by Amy Ellis Nutt 
  • Self-ish: a Transgender Awakening by Chloe Schwenke
  • Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia
Nonfiction
  • Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
  • Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us by CN Lester
  • “You’re in the Wrong Bathroom!” and 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions about Transgender and Gender-nonconforming People by Laura Erickson Schroth
  • Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
  • The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
  • Emerging Gender Identities: Understanding the Diverse Experiences of Today’s Youth by Mark A. Yarhouse

Movies

The True Adventures of Wolf Boy
A boy with an illness that causes hair growth over the entirety of his face and body goes in search of his mother who abandoned him at birth. 
Watch it on Kanopy or Hoopla.
Growing Up Trans
Told from the perspective of parents, doctors, and - most revealing of all - eight transgender kids themselves, the film explores the medical possibilities, struggles, and choices transgender kids and their families face today.
Watch it on Kanopy.
Cowboys 
Aghast at his ex-wife's refusal to let their son, Joe, live as his authentic self, Troy runs off with Joe into the Montana wilderness.
Watch it on Kanopy or Hoopla.
Real Boy
19-year-old Bennett Wallace navigates sobriety, adolescence, and the evolution of his gender identity, his mother makes her own transformation from resistance to acceptance of her trans son.
Watch it on Kanopy. 
Tomboy
Tomboy tells the story of 10-year-old Laure who moves to the suburbs and decides to pass as a boy amongst the pack of neighborhood kids.
Watch it on Kanopy.
Growing Up Coy 
In a highly conservative Colorado town, a pink-loving, pig-tailed six-year-old girl named Coy becomes the unlikely poster child for transgender rights.
Watch it on Kanopy.
A Kid Like Jake 
A Brooklyn couple must rethink their parenting and relationship when their child's teacher suggests his gender nonconformity may be more than a phase.
Check out at: Cook Memorial Library • Indian Trails Library • Vernon Area Library
Odd Ones Out
Odd Ones Out documents four years in the courageous lives of three transgender teens as they transition into adulthood and face life-altering events.
Watch it on Kanopy.
They
Fourteen-year-old J uses the pronoun “they” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of Chicago. J is exploring their gender identity while taking hormone blockers to postpone puberty.
Watch it on Kanopy.

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