I don’t teach about what transgender is, but many others do. Get started in these places. Maybe they’ll help you find what you’re looking for.
101
Transgender 101 on YouTube 4-min ⏰
Online videos to help you learn more
Some non-transgender people have asked me for introductory material about what it means to be transgender. Here are a few videos to get started.
Interview projects
Gender Identity Today, founded by Amethysta Herrick
The Heroines of My Life, a blog by Monika Kowalska, who “interviewed over 600 transgender women that radiate with wisdom, beauty, intelligence and love” and concluded that “it is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not.”
News
Assigned Media, founded by Evan Urquhart
Trans Writes, co-founded by Lee Hurley and Gemma Stone
Messaging
Transgender Youth and the Freedom to Be Ourselves: “Messaging guidance based in the Race Class Narrative for organizers and advocates building a strong, vocal, and durable multiracial coalition championing a trans-inclusive, progressive vision for the country.”
Video
ContraPoints channel (YouTube) e.g., “The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling” (1 hour 55 min)
Thought Slime channel (YouTube) e.g., “Is This the Weirdest Transphobic Lie Ever?” (42 min)
History
Did you know about the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries? They have digital collections as well as physical collections on-campus in British Columbia, Canada.
Academics
Y. Gavriel Ansara (Google Scholar)
Florence Ashley (website)
Decolonizing Gender: A Curriculum is a guided reflection on gender identity, race, and colonialism. Designed for both individuals and groups, this zine asks deep and probing questions about why the gender binary is seen as the “norm”, despite people who choose to exist outside of the binary having existed forever.
Dating
Transfemme, an informational website for men who date trans women, and vice versa
Pronouns
“Gender pronouns 101: How to use them and everything you need to know,” Quispe López, them, May 23, 2023
“A guide to neopronouns, from ae to ze,” Scottie Andrew, CNN, August 12, 2023
“So, you misgendered someone. here’s how to address the mistake,” Jillian Wilson, HuffPost, June 5, 2023
Where gender-neutral pronouns come from, Michael Waters, The Atlantic, June 4, 2021
They Is My Pronoun (2012–2020 blog)
Inclusive language
The case for saying ‘pregnant people’ and other gender-inclusive phrases, Kristen Rogers, CNN, May 6, 2024
Judaism
Abby Stein has posted 50 source sheets on Judaism, gender, and sexuality. Ben Yehuda Press will be publishing them in book form.
Beit Toratah retells Torah stories, gender-swapped.
Trans Halakha Project at Svara: A group of Jewish scholars is publishing the first guide to Jewish legal opinions “by and for trans people” (2023)
Genocide
Alex Mell-Taylor, “Surprisingly, this is what a trans genocide looks like,” Medium, March 9, 2023
Mallory Moore, “Some thoughts about ongoing ‘trans genocide’ narratives,” Medium, April 15, 2023
Information sheets
QGuides are for health professionals working with LGBTIQ+ people.
Dream
The Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies: A hands-on card deck designed to help us collectively envision and share ideas for transfeminist technologies from the future.
Publishers
The Trans Publishing Network is a new initiative in the UK for trans and nonbinary people who work in UK book publishing.
Tags
Read articles that Medium has categorized as Transgender (all authors, not just me). Most authors write under a paywall, so I encourage you to become a member; the authors you read will receive payment for their work.
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