Films and Books
- Documentary Films and Docu-dramas
- Feature Films
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Documentary Films and Docu-Dramas
- The 11-Year Old Who Wants a Sex Change (nd) Oprah Winfrey episode about trans kids
- A Boy Named Sue (2000) Tracks an FTM transition
- The Aggressives (2005) Portrait of six members of the "aggressive" masculine lesbian stud subculture in New York
- Beautiful Boxer (2003) Story of Parinya Charoenphol, a MTF Muaythai boxer
- Boys Don't Cry (1999) Fictionalized account of FTM Brandon Teena's rape and murder
- The Brandon Teena Story (1998)
- Call Me Malcolm (2005) About a FTM seminary student
- Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora (1994) The life of crossdresser Ed Wood
- Gendernaughts (1998) Tour of San Francisco's trans community in the mid-90s
- Harsh Beauty (2005) Tracks 3 hijras in India
- The Iron Ladies (2001) About a Thai volleyball team with MTF players
- The Iron Ladies II (2004) Sequel to 2001 movie
- Juggling Gender (1992) About circus performer and bearded woman Jennifer Miller
- Just Call Me Kade (2002) Transition of a teenage FTM
- Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering a Sense of Place (2001) About colonization, gender identity and sexuality in Hawai'i
- Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (2005) Examines the ways different societies and cultures handle the blurring of gender, sexual identity and sexual orientation.
- Miguel/Michelle (1998) MTF transition set in the Philippines
- Myth of a Father (2003) A journey to learn about one's MTF father
- No Dumb Questions (2003) The reactions of three little girls as their uncle Bill transitions to aunt Barbara
- Paris is Burning (1991) About vogue balls in New York City
- Screaming Queens: The Riots at Compton's Cafeteria (2005) 1966 San Francisco riots led by MTFs
- Sir: Just a Normal Guy (2003) FTM Transition
- Soldier's Girl (2003) Story of MTF Calpernia Addams and her boyfriend Pfc. Barry Winchell, who was killed for being perceived as gay
- Southern Comfort (2001) Story of FTM Robert Eads in his last year as he was dying of ovarian cancer
- Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box (1987) About male impersonator Storme DeLarverie
- Toilet Training (2003) About the issues trans people face using public restrooms
- TransGeneration (2005) About four transgender college students - 2 MTFs and 2 FTMs
- transparent (2005) 19 FTMs living in the US who have given birth
- Two Spirit People (1991) Overview of gender identity and sexual orientation in Native American cultures
- You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men (1996) About 6 FTMs
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) Two drag queens and a transwoman on tour in Australia
- All About My Mother/Todo Sobre Mi Madre (1999) Pedro Almodovar film honoring all kinds of women.
- The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) Story of a passing woman on the western frontier in the 1800s
- Better Than Chocolate (1999) Lesbian romance with significant MTF character
- By Hook or By Crook (2001) Transgender/butch buddy movie
- The Crying Game (1997) Story about the relationship between an MTF and a man in the IRA
- Different for Girls (1996) Love story between a MTF and an old high school friend
- Flawless (1999) Story of a security guard who has a stroke and is assigned to a rehab program that includes singing lessons with the MTF next door
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) Story of trans punk grrl from East Berlin
- I Like It Like That (1994) Drama of love and marital trouble in the Bronx with significant MTF character
- Ma Vie en Rose (1997) Story of young French boy coming to know that she is a girl
- Normal (2003) Story of an older MTF transitioning in the Midwest
- Princesa (2001) About a 19 year old MTF sex worker in Milan
- Transamerica (2006) Story of MTF who reunites with her long lost son
- Becoming a Visible Man (2004) by Jamison Green
- Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits (1996) by Loren Cameron
- Both Sides Now (2006) by Dhillon Khosla
- Boys Like Her: Transfictions (1998) by Taste This
- Finding the real me: True tales of sex and gender diversity. (2003) by Tracie O'Keefe and Katrina Fox (eds)
- From the inside out: Radical gender transformation, FTM and beyond. (2004) by Morty Diamond (ed)
- The Gender Frontier: Mariette Pathy Allen (2003) by Mariette Pathy Allen
- Gender Loving Care: A Guide to Counseling Gender Variant Clients (1999) by Randi Ettner
- Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (1995) by Kate Bornstein
- Genderqueer: Voices from beyond the sexual binary. (2002) by Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins, Clare Howell (eds.)
- Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female. (1996) by Phyllis Burke
- Honey, Honey, Miss Thang: Being Black, Gay and On the Streets (1996) by Leon E. Pettiway
- How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (2002) by Joanne Meyerowirz
- Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience (2005) by Matt Kailey
- Made in India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects (2004) by Suparna Bhaskaran
- Mark 947 (2002) by Calpernia Addams
- My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser (2005) by Helen Boyd
- Out & About Campus: Personal Accounts by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender College Students (2000) by Kim Howard and Annie Stevens (eds)
- Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology (2000) by Amy Sonnie (Ed)
- Self-Made Men: Identity, Embodiment and Recognition Among Transsexual Men (2003) by Henry Rubin
- Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism (1997) by Pat Califia
- She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (2003) by Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Stone Butch Blues (2003) by Leslie Feinberg
- The Last Time I Wore a Dress: A Memoir (1997) Daphne Scholinski
- The Mirror Makes No Sense (2006) by Mark Angelo Cummings
- The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male (2006) by Max Wolf Valerio
- Tranifesto (2002) by Matt Kailey
- Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones (2003) by Mary Boenke
- Trans/forming Feminisms: Transfeminist voices speak out (2006) edited by Krista Scott-Dixon
- Transgender Care: Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information and Personal Accounts (1998) by Gianna E. Israel, Donald E. Tarver and Dianne Shafer
- Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender Variant People and Their Families (2004) by Arlene Istar Lev
- The Transgender Reader (2006) by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle
- Transgender Rights (2006). Currah, P., Juang, R.M., Price Minter, S. (Eds)
- Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Ru Paul (1996) by Leslie Feinberg
- Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink and Blue (1998) by Leslie Feinberg
- Transmen and FTMs: Identities, bodies, genders, and sexualities (1999) by Jason Cromwell
- Transsexual Workers: An Employer's Guide (2003) by Janis Walworth
- True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism for Families, Friends, Coworkers and Helping Professionals (2003) by Mildred L. Brown and Chloe Ann Rounsley
- Trumpet: A Novel (2000) by Jackie Kay
Children's and Young Adults' Books
- The Little Boy (2003) by E. Kelly
- Luna (2004) by Julie Ann Peters
- Oliver Buttons is a Sissy (1979) by Tomie dePaola
- The Sissy Duckling (2002) by Harvie Fierstein and Henry Cole