Books for International Transgender Day of Visibility

Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger’s past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life.

Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Akwaeke Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world.

Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity.

A love story with the heart of Austen classics and a reflective journey of becoming that shift our own perceptions of romance, identity, gender, and the fairness of life.

Award-winning sociologist Arlene Stein documents the varied ways younger trans men see themselves and how they are changing our understanding of what it means to be male and female in America.

An inspirational story of accepting and embracing two trans people in a family—a family who shows what’s possible when you “lead with love.”