TRANSSEXUALS/TRANSGENDERED //
TRANSSEXUALISME
Includes some references to transvestism.
User is advised to check other sections of this bibliography for additional relevant items,
since not all items of broader scope and which have been listed in appropriate general
subject areas of this list, were necessarily duplicated at this heading.
See, e.g., the LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY, and VIDEOS sections.
See also the MEDICINE section for some more technical articles, some of which are
restricted to subscribing institutions (a few of such, more specific interest, in the
compiler’s judgment, are included also in this section, below).
100% Woman.
SEE Videos section of this list.
Aird, Elizabeth.
“Transsexual Stands Out in Municipal
Race.”
Final C Edition, pp. B1, B4.
Ref.: Micromedia’s CBCA Fulltext Reference electronic database.
Profile of Jamie Lee Hamilton.
Akenson, Donald.
At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White.
“One attempt to address the history of sexuality and cross-dressing” –
Maynard, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, March-June
1994, pp.
128, 129. Review: American Review of
Canadian Studies
22 (Summer 1992): 287-289.
Aldridge, Patricia, 1955-
The Illustrated Crossdresser and Drag Queen Makeup Guide.
(80 p.; ISBN 0969719116)
Ref.: AMICUS no. 13287045.
Aldridge, Patricia, 1955-
(44 p.; ISBN 0969719108)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 12937786, in which descriptors
assigned include: Female
impersonators –
and Female impersonators
–
Aldridge, Patricia, 1955-
Why Do I Crossdress? : (The Book).
1st ed.;
(91 p.; ISBN 0969719124)
Ref.: N. Richards communication; AMICUS
catalogue record
no. 13287842.
Allo Performance!
See VIDEOS section of this list.
“Altered States.” Globe and Mail, November 15, 1986, p. D5.
Feature article.
Armstrong, Jane.
“The Body Within, The Body Without: Activists Say Transgendered People
Could be the ‘New Gays,’ Poised to Win Human-rights Battles and Mainstream
Acceptance in
Help
of a Surgeon’s Scalpel?” Globe &
Mail [
(3914 words)
Baudouin, Jean-Louis.
“La
vérité et le droit des personnes: aspects nouveaux.”
Revue
générale de droit 18 (1987): 801-817.
Includes
brief discussion of transsexualism, pp. 805-806.
Beazley, Doug.
“Bookworm Bandit: Surgery Made Him a Woman, But What Came After Turned
Her into a Thief.” Maclean’s,
Ref.: CPI.Q index.
Transsexual who earlier
carried out a series of bank heists in
Becoming Ayden.
SEE Videos section of this list.
Bellefeuille, Johanne de, et
Gantcheff, Natalie Ann.
“Si
nous étions des hommes…: nous serions tout ce qu’ils ne sont pas:
sensibles,
éloquents, attentifs….” Coup de pouce
[Montréal] 12(11)
(janv. 1996): 32-42.
Indexing descriptors given: women; psychology; transsexuals.
Belleville, Denise.
“Estime de soi et choix du conjoint chez les candidats à la conversion
sexuelle.”
Thèse
de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1979.
(ca. 152 leaves)
Blanchard, Daniel Norman.
“The Male to Female Transsexual: A Case Study.” M.A. thesis, University of
(133 leaves)
Blanchard, Ray.
“Nonhomosexual Gender Dysphoria.” Journal of Sex Research 24 (1988):
188-193.
Blanchard is senior psychologist at Centre for Addiction and
Mental
Health,
Blanchard, Ray.
“Typology of Male-to-Female Transsexualism.” Archives of Sexual Behavior
14(3) (1985): 247-261.
Blanchard, Ray; Clemmensen, Leonard H.; and Steiner, Betty W.
“Heterosexual and Homosexual Gender Dysphoria.” Archives of Sexual
Behavior 16(2) (1987): 139-152.
Blanchard, Ray; Clemmensen, Leonard H.; and Steiner, Betty W.
“Social Desirability Response Set and Systematic Distortion in the Self-Report
of Adult Male Gender Patients.” Archives of Sexual Behavior 14(6) (1985):
505-516.
Blanchard, Ray; Dickey, Robert; and Jones, Corey L.
“Comparison of Height and Weight in Homosexual versus Nonhomosexual Male
Gender Dysphorics.” Archives of Sexual Behavior 24(5) (1995): 543-554.
Blanchard, Ray, and Sheridan, Peter M.
“Proportion of Unmarried Siblings of Homosexual and Nonhomosexual Gender-
Dysphoric Patients.” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 37(3) (1992): 163-167.
Blanchard, Ray, and Sheridan, Peter M.
“Sibship Size, Sibling Sex Ratio, Birth Order, and Parental Age in Homosexual
and Nonhomosexual Gender Dysphorics.” Journal of Nervous & Mental
Disease 180(1) (1992): 40-47.
Blanchard, Ray; Steiner, Betty W.; and Clemmensen, Leonard H.
“Gender Dysphoria, Gender Reorientation, and the Clinical Management of
Transsexualism.” Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology 53(3)
(1985): 295-304.
Blanchard, Ray, et al.
“Prediction of Regrets in Postoperative Transsexuals.” Canadian Journal of
Psychiatry 34(1) (1989): 43-45.
Blanchard, R., and Steiner, B., eds.
Clinical Management of Gender Identity Disorders in Children and Adults.
Ref.: Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 3(4) (Winter 1994): 331.
Boyle, Christine.
“The Anti-discrimination Norm in Human Rights and Charter Law: Nixon v.
(March 2004): 31-72.
Kimberly Nixon, a male-to-female transsexual, was rejected for a
training program by Vancouver Rape Relief because apparently it was
claimed she didn’t share the same life experiences as those raised as
girls and women.
Brown, Lisa.
“Transsexuality: Crossing Over or
Beginnning.” Parachute 65 (Jan.-Mar. 1992):
34-39.
Brown,
Nicola Ruth.
“Queer Women Partners of Female-to-male Transsexuals: Renegotiating
Self in Relationships.” Ph.D. dissertation,
(267 leaves)
Ref.: PsycINFO index, which provides abstract and notes that
“researcher interviewed
twenty queer-identified women in
and the
transition of an FTM partner.”
Brown, Veronica, ed.
S.T.U.D. (Shop ‘Till U Drop): The North American Transgender Resource Guide.
(ISBN 0969719132)
Listed in National Library of Canada catalogue.
Bureau, Jules; Beaudoin, Réal; et
Fallon, Yolande.
L’adaptation
socio-économique et interpersonnelle et la satisfaction psycho-
sexuelle
pré et post conversion sociale, hormonale et chirurgicale de
transsexuels(les)
mâles et femelles. Montréal:
Département de sexologie,
Université
du Québec à Montréal, 1989.
(290 p.)
Burnham, Christine Wg, 1949-
Transsexual/Transgendered Needs
Assessment Survey (1998) Report: Analysis and
Commentary. Vancouver, B.C.: GC Services, 1999.
(ca. 75 p.; ISBN 0968570100)
Burnham, Christine, and Diewold, Patricia.
Gender Change Employability
Issues, Including Transitional Employment Survey
Results.
Transsexuals and employment.
“Can a Transgendered Person Be ‘One of Us’.” Herizons 15(2) (Fall 2001):
22-23+ (2016 words).
Comments of a number of people, including columnist Michele
Landsberg.
Canadian Task Force for Transgendered Law Reform.
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Stonewall/8860/
(viewed
Ref.: CSA Sociological Abstracts
Cardwell, Mark.
“A Life in the Day of Dr. Yvon Menard.” Medical Post 33(17) (May 6, 1997): 50.
Plastic surgery.
Caring for Transgender Adolescents in BC: Suggested Guidelines.
Transgender Support & Education Society ;
Vancouver, BC: Vancouver
Coastal Health Coalition, c2006.
(1 vol., various pagings; listed in reference as electronic resource, with access
by subscription; see ref. for additional information)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33777895.
NOTE entry below, Guidelines for Transgender Care,
for an open access document of similar title.
Case, Neville Edward Archibald, 1930-
“An Examination of Adaptability and Cohesion: Implications for Adult Education
with Anatomical Male Transsexuals.” Ed.D. dissertation, University of
(ca. 255 leaves)
The Dual
(149 p.; ISBN 1895590205)
“Through two wholly fictional personal histories, the author has sought
to describe…the processes, the challenges and disappointments, the
successes and failures faced by people who have dealt with
[transsexuality]” – p. vi.
Feelings: A Transsexual’s Explanation of a Baffling Condition.
(232 p.; ISBN 1895590035)
A Tale of Two Wives.
(ISBN 1895590213)
Fictional account, as indicated in Castle’s Dual Alliance. Not seen.
The Zenith Experience: Encounters & Memories in a Transgender Setting.
(245 p.; ISBN 0973429372)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 32109011, which includes
descriptor regarding
history in
political activity and legal status.
SEE ALSO fictional works of this author in LITERATURE – NOVELS
section, particularly, but check also other LITERATURE subdivisions.
Castle, Stephanie, ed.
Guidelines: A Manual for Transsexuals and Their Caregivers.
(ISBN 1895590221)
Chambers, Lori.
“Unprincipled Exclusions: Feminist Theory, Transgender Jurisprudence, and
Kimberly Nixon.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 19(2)
(Summer 2007): 305-334.
Ref.: CPI.Q index
Charest,
Madeleine, 1941-
Le
dur combat d’une femme. [
(274 p.; ISBN 2980936405)
Autobiography.
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue record no. 32474285, which applies
descriptors Sex change – Québec (Province) – Biography and
Transsexuals -- Québec (Province) – Biography
Clemmensen, Leonard H.
“Male
Gender Dysphoria and Criminality.” M.A.
thesis,
1986.
(ca. 58 leaves)
Clermont, Danielle.
“Identité
sexuelle et transsexualisme.” Thèse
(M.Ps.), Université de Montréal,
1977.
(101 feuilles)
Cohen, Henri, and Forget, Helene.
“Auditory Cerebral Lateralization following Cross-Gender Hormone Therapy.”
Cortex 31(3) (Sept.
1995): 565-573.
Transsexual
adults in Canada.
Author
affiliation: Université du Québec, Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Montréal.
Colapinto, John, 1958-
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl.
Toronto: HarperCollins, c2000.
(279
p.; ISBN 0002000474)
Available also in abridged form as four audiocassettes, running 5 hours,
published: New York: Simon and Schuster, c2000 (ISBN 0671047922).
Cole, Susan G.
“Transfixed by Transgender.” Herizons 13(4) (Mar. 2000): 47 (866 words).
Collin, Lise.
“Les transsexuels.” Justice
9(5) (mai 1987): 30-32.
Loi
sur le changement de nom; transsexuels et d’autres aspects du
droit
au Québec.
Cormier, Frances Olympe, 1937-
Frances with an “e”: Our Story. Moose Creek, Ont.: Pilgrim Publications, 1995.
(298 p.; ISBN 0969940904)
Published also in French under title: France avec un “s”.
Cowan,
“ ‘Gender Is No Substitute for Sex’ : A Comparative Human Rights Analysis
of the Legal Regulation of Sexual Identity.” Feminist Legal Studies 13(1)
(2005): 67-96.
Ref.: CSA Sociological Abstracts, which states that the “article seeks
to compare recent
Canadian law in this area….”
Cullen, Jim.
“Transgenderism and Social Work: An Experiential Journey.”
Social Worker 65(3) (Fall 1997): 46-54.
Darke, Julie, and Cope, Allison.
Trans Inclusion Policy Manual for Women’s Organizations. Julie Dark &
Allison Cope for the Women/Trans Dialogue Planning Committee and
the Trans
(113 p.; ISBN 0973026200)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 27613011, which gives
Darke as author entry and Dark in statement of responsibility in
title field.
Denike, Margaret, 1961-
Transgender and Women’s
Substantive Equality: Discussion Paper,
Consultation Paper, Bibliography, Case Law Summaries. Prepared by
Margaret Denike, Sal Renshaw &
C.J. Rowe.
of Women and the Law, 2003.
(Electronic file; 71 printed pages)
Issued also in French under title L’égalité
réelle pour les femmes et
les personnes transgenres : document
de travail et rapport de consultation.
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue record no. 33664584, which notes that for
holdings one may see Library and Archives Canada’s Electronic
Collection. The article in English was retrievable August 22, 2008
from that collection as follows:
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/300/nawl-anfd/transgender-e/Pub_Report_Trans03_en.doc
Devor, Holly.
“Female Gender Dysphoria: Personal Problem or Social Problem?”
Annual Review of Sex Research 7 (1997): 44-89.
Author affiliation: University of Victoria, B.C.
Devor, Holly.
FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society. Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Press, 1997.
(695 p.; ISBN 0253336317)
“This book provides a look at the life experiences of 45 female-to-male
transsexuals” – jacket, as quoted in PsycINFO.
Devor, Holly.
Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits of Duality. Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Press, c1989.
(178 p.; ISBN 0253316375; 0253205336)
Devor, Holly.
“Gender Blending Females: Women and Sometimes Men.” American
Behavioral Scientist 31 (1987): 12-40.
Devor, Holly.
“More Than Manly Women: How Female-to-Male Transsexuals Reject Lesbian
Identities.” In Gender Blending, pp. 87-102. Edited by Bonnie Bullough,
Vern Bullough, and James Elias. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997.
Devor, Holly.
“Sexual Orientation Identities, Attractions, and Practices of Female-to-Male
Transsexuals.” Journal of Sex Research 30(4) (1993): 303-315.
Devor, Holly.
“Speaking Subjects: Theory in the Vernacular.” Feminism & Psychology 10(1)
(Feb. 2000): 41-45.
Comments on a 1978 article by S.J. Kessler and W. McKenna which
“examines the social construction of gender in light of the experience
of transsexuals.” Devor suggests that many things have changed in the
interim – from PsycINFO.
Devor, Holly.
“Transsexualism, Dissociation, and Child Abuse: An Initial Discussion Based on
Nonclinical Data.” Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality 6(3) (1994):
49-72.
Devor, Holly; Kendel, Monica; and Strapko, Nancy.
“Feminist and Lesbian Opinions about Transsexuals.” In Gender Blending,
pp. 146-157. Edited by Bonnie Bullough, Vern Bullough, and James Elias.
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997.
Dickey, Robert, and Stephens, Judith.
“Female-to-Male Transsexualism, Heterosexual Type: Two Cases.”
Archives of Sexual Behavior 24(4) (Aug. 1995): 439-445.
Author affiliation: Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto.
“Don Becomes Angela.” Chatelaine, November 1993, pp. 107-109 (1534 words).
“Dumaresq Entitled to Race as Woman.” Globe and Mail [Metro ed.], August 9, 2002,
p. S3.
Concerning transsexual Michelle Dumaresq,
Vancouver native, and
“Canada’s top female downhill racer” according to another article about
her by Pat Lynch, “She Said, She Said: Why Don’t Michelle Dumaresq’s
Teammates Want to Race with Her,” Explore, no. 1184 (Winter 2002),
p. 20.
Eaton, Jonathan.
“Transitions at Work: Industrial Relations Responses to the Emerging Rights
of Transgender Workers.” Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal
11(2) (Spring 2004): 175-203.
Elliot, Patricia.
“Who Gets to Be a Woman?: Feminist Politics and the Question of
Trans-inclusion.” Atlantis 29(1) (Fall 2004): 13+ (8 pages)
Finding Our Place.
SEE entry at Findlay, Barbara, in this section.
“Real Women: Kimberly Nixon v.
See annotation under Boyle in this section.
Findlay, Barbara, et al.
Finding Our Place: Transgendered Law Reform Project.
Vancouver: High Risk Project Society, 1996.
(57 p.; ISBN 0968056504)
“Sponsored by the Law Foundation of British Columbia” –Cover.
Laws/legal status regarding transsexuals and transvestites.
Ref.: Index to Canadian Legal Literature, electronic index, 1987-10/2000.
Forcier,
Alain-André, 1959-
Le transgenderisme. Montréal : Éditions Damgan Fayot, 2005.
(no pagination in reference; ISBN 2923488040)
Gauthier, Jean-Louis.
“Aujourd’hui
Daniel…c’est Rina.” Châtelaine
[éd. française], septembre 1985,
pp.
131-138.
“Les
conditions psychologiques et sociales des transsexuels du Québec;
leurs
motivations; le processus médical actuel et les alternatives possibles;
témoignages”
– Repère résumé.
Gender
Line Extended.
SEE Videos section of this list.
Gill, Alexandra.
“A Woman in Progress: Michelle Josef Is Happy to Be a Woman, Even If It’s
Taken Several Rounds of Surgery and Thousands of Dollars to Become One.”
Elm Street 3(7) (Summer 1999): 108-115.
Girl Inside.
SEE Videos section of this list.
Greenhill, Pauline.
“‘Neither
a Man nor a Maid’: Sexualities and Gendered Meanings in Cross-
Dressing
Ballads.” Journal of American
Folklore 108, no. 428 (Spring 1995):
156-177.
Considerable amount of Canadian content.
Grenfell, Laura.
“Embracing Law’s Categories: Anti-discrimination Laws and Transgenderism.”
Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 15(1) (Summer 2003): 51-97.
Ref.: LegalTrac
index, which augments title by adding “
European Union.”
Guay, Claude, 1954-
“Le
transsexualisme: position du problème.”
Thèse de maîtrise, Université Laval,
1981.
(108
feuilles)
Annexe
C: text in English (f. 95-102)
Guidelines for Transgender Care.
( v.)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 32810620, which provides
electronic document address for seven substantial documents at:
http://www.vch.ca/transhealth/resources/careguidelines.html
(viewed
See this same reference as displayed in MEDICINE section for
more extensive annotation.
Hagen, Darrin, 1964-
An Edmonton Queen: Not a Riverboat Story:
Inside a Dynasty of Drag.
Edmonton:
Slipstream Books, 1997.
(166
p.; ISBN 1895836468)
Review: NeWest Review 23(5) (June-July 1998): 32-33.
Halladay, Laurel.
“A Lovely War: Male to Female Cross-dressing and Canadian Military
Entertainment in World War II.” Journal of Homosexuality 46(3-4)
(Jan.-Feb. 2004): 19+ (16 pages)
Ref.: Expanded Academic ASAP index.
Hampson, Sarah.
“The Singer Formerly Seen as She: She Was a Classically Trained Musician
with a Career in Children’s Entertainment, Until Her Life ‘Burned Up’ and She
Became a He with a New Professional
Name.” Globe & Mail [
Ref.: CPI.Q index notes that this is an interview with Phynix.
Hill, Darryl B.
“Understanding, Knowing, and Telling Transgender Identities.”
Ph.D. dissertation,
(299 p.)
Hoenig, J.
“The Legal Position of the
Transsexual: Mostly Unsatisfactory outside
Canadian Medical Association Journal
116(3) (
Older item not listed in Homosexuality in Canada bibliographies.
Hogan-Finlay, Mary T.
“Development of the Cross-Gender Lifestyle and Comparison of Cross-Gendered
Men with Heterosexual
Controls.” Ph.D. dissertation,
1995.
(225 p.)
Hughes, Susan, 1960-
No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring
Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom
and Adventure. Written by Susan Hughes; illustrated by Willow Dawson.
(80 p.; ISBN 9781554531776, 9781554531783)
“Interest age level: Ages 9-12 years.”
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33663695, which assigns
descriptors Male impersonators – Biography – Juvenile literature,
Transgender people – Biography – Juvenile literature, and
Transvestities – Biography – Juvenile literature.
I Would Never Have Known: A Conversation with Peter Dunnigan.
See VIDEOS section of this list.
In the Flesh.
SEE VIDEOS section for fuller listing of this National Film Board of Canada item.
Johnson, Katherine, and Castle, Stephanie.
Prisoner of Gender: A Transsexual
and the System. Vancouver:
Perceptions
Press,
c1997.
(248
p.; ISBN 1895590183)
Johnson, Lori.
“The Legal Status of Post-Operative Transsexuals.” Health Law Journal 2 (1994):
159-181.
Joyal, Renée.
“Transsexualisme
et identité parentale.” Revue de
droit [Université de Sherbrooke]
20(1)
(1989): 155-159.
“Les
problèmes juridiques rencontrés lorsqu’une personne transsexuelle
veut
légaliser sa nouvelle identité parentale” – Repère résumé.
Kelly, Robyn.
“The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Kinesis, March 2001, pp. 4, 22.
Concerns transsexual human rights/discrimination in British Columbia.
Corporation named: Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter.
Kim, Gloria.
“Why Be Just One Sex?: For the Transgendered To Be Fully Themselves, They
Need Freedom To Move between Male and Female.” Maclean’s,
September 12, 2005, p. 52+ (2 pages)
Ref.: CPI.Q index.
Kin, Yanni, 1960-
Regarde-moi, maman!: témoignage d’un transsexuel. Outremont, QC :
Lanctôt
éditeur; Boisbriand, QC : Diffusion Prologue, 2002.
(302 p.; ISBN 2894852355)
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue record no. 27864390, which applies
descriptor Transsexuals – Québec (Province) –
Biography.
Kouri, Robert P.
“Certain Legal Aspects of Modern Medicine: Sex Reassignment and Sterilization.”
D.C.L. thesis, McGill University, 1975.
(ca. 456 leaves)
Includes abstracts in English and French.
Labman, Shauna.
“Left in Legal Limbo: Transsexual Identity and the Law.” Appeal: Review of
Current Law and Law Reform [University of Victoria, Faculty of Law]
7(2001): 66-73.
Electronic version also available, as of February 6, 2003, at
Lakeman, Lee.
“Sustaining Our Resistance to Male Violence: Attacks on Women’s Organizing
and Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter.” Canadian Woman Studies
25 (1/2) (Winter 2006): 129-132.
This concerns the Nixon v. Vancouver Rape Relief case, to which
there is other reference in this list.
Ref.: CBCA index, which carries abstract.
Legault, Lucie.
“La
Charte québécoise interdit la discrimination fondée sur le transsexualisme;
La
Presse juridique rencontre l’honorable Michèle Rivet, présidente du
Tribunal des droits de la personne.” Presse juridique 6, no. 13 (août 1998):
1-3.
Leslie, Megan.
“Boys Will Be Girls: Sex Reassignment Surgery and the Ethics of State Funding.”
Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies 13 (Annual 2004): 239-260.
Lines, Rick, and Scott, Ann V.
“Male-to-Female Transsexuals and Transgendered People in Prisons: HIV/AIDS
Issues and Strategies.” Canadian HIV AIDS Policy & Law Newsletter 4(2/3)
(Spring 1999): 55-59.
French-language version in same issue, pp. 63-68, under title:
“Détenus transsexuels et transgenre:
questions de VIH/sida et stratégies.”
Luxton, Meg.
“Transphobia and Transactivism : Introduction. ” Atlantis 29(1)
(Fall 2004): 3 (1 page)
MacDonald, Eleanor.
“Critical Identities: Rethinking Feminism through Transgender Politics.”
Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal 23(1)( Fall/Winter 1998): 3-12.
Manitoba. Law Reform Commission.
Report of the Revision of Birth Certificates of Trans-sexual Persons.
Winnipeg, Man.: The Commission, 1976.
(35 p.; LCCN 77357527 //r852)
Martel, Brigitte, 1949-
Né
homme, comment je suis devenu femme.
Jacques Bélanger/Brigitte Martel.
Montréal:
Québécor, 1981.
(155 p.; ISBN 2890891313)
Martel, Yann.
Self: A Novel. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1996.
(329 p.; ISBN 0394281608)
“Explores trans-gender territory, telling the story of a young man who
finds he has changed into a woman overnight” – Quill & Quire, July 1997,
pp. 37-38.
Mathen, Carissima.
“Transgendered Persons and Feminist Strategy.” Canadian Journal of Women
and the Law 16(2) (Summer 2004): 291-316.
Ref.: LegalTrac
index, which adds “
Mayeda, Graham.
“Re-imagining Feminist Theory: Transgender Identity, Feminism, and the Law.”
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 17 (2005): 423-472.
Ref.: Index to Canadian Legal Literature.
Mayrand, Marie, 1945-
Le
combat de la mère d’un transsexuel.
Montréal: Editions Le Cercle international
des
gagnants, c1986.
(89 p.; ISBN 2893230016)
Mills, Suzanne, and McCreary, Tyler.
“The Third Sex: Supporting the Struggles of Transgendered People.”
Briarpatch 34(7) (November 2005): 14+ (3 pages; 1380 words)
Ref.: CPI.Q index.
Myatt, Julie.
“Married to a Transsexual: A Wife’s Story.” Medical Post 33(41) (Dec. 2, 1997):
74-75 (2222 words).
Namaste, Ki.
Access
Denied: A Report on the Experiences of Transsexuals and Transgenderists
with Health Care and Social Services in Ontario. Toronto: Coalition for
Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario (CLGRO), 1995.
(ca. 58 p.)
Namaste, Ki.
“L’idéologème de genre et l’énonciation transsexuelle.” Protée 22(1) (hiver 1994):
81-88.
Namaste, Ki, in collaboration with Sandra Laframboise and Deborah Brady.
Transgendered People
and HIV/AIDS : An Introduction to Transgendered
People’s Health
Concerns regarding HIV and AIDS = La Transsexualité,
la travestisme, et le VIH/SIDA: une
introduction à la santé des personnes
transsexuelles et
travesties face au VIH et au SIDA. Vancouver, B.C.:
High Risk Project
Society, 1995.
(12, 12 p.)
Ref.:
OCLC catalog record, accession no. 45943806.
Namaste, Viviane.
“Beyond Leisure Studies: A Labour History of Male to Female Transsexual and
Transvestite Artists in
See also Namaste’s monograph, C’était du spectacle!, below.
Namaste, Viviane K.
C’était du spectacle! : l’histoire des
artistes transsexuelles à Montréal, 1955-1985.
Montréal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, c2005.
(266 p.; ISBNs 0773528512 and 077352908X)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 30549503;
Review by Line Chamberland, Canadian Historical Review 87(3) (2006):
524-526.
Review by Roxanne Martin, Revue d’histoire
de l’Amérique française
61(1) (2007) : 135-137.
Namaste, Viviane K.
“HIV/AIDS and Female-to-Male Transsexuals and Transvestites: Results
from a Needs Assessment
in Quebec.” In Transgender and HIV:
Risks, Prevention,
and Care, pp. 91-99. Edited by
Walter Bockting and
Sheila Kirk. New York: Haworth Press, 2001.
“Reports
on some of the preliminary results of the particular needs
of
female to male (FTM) people with regard to HIV/AIDS, drawn
from
individual interviews conducted with 5 FTM individuals, as
well
as a discussion group on this topic with FTM individuals” –
from
PsycINFO abstract.
Namaste, Viviane K.
HIV/AIDS and
Transgender Communities in Canada: A Report on the
Knowledge, Attitudes
and Behaviour of Transgendered People in
Canada with respect
to HIV and AIDS. Toronto:
Genderpress, 1995.
(30 p.)
Ref.:
OCLC catalog record, accession no. 46348206.
Namaste, Viviane K.
Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People.
Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
(ca. 340 p.; ISBN 0226568091; 0226568105)
AMICUS catalogue record descriptors assigned concern transsexuals,
transvestites, and female impersonators in Canada and social marginality.
Namaste, Viviane K.
Sex Change, Social Change : Reflections on Identity, Institutions and
Imperialism.
(136 p.; ISBN 0889614520)
Ref : AMICUS catalogue no. 31174965.
Napoleon, Val.
“Raven’s Garden: A Discussion about Aboriginal Sexual Orientation and
Transgender Issues.” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 17(2)(Fall 2002):
149-171.
Nelson, C.; Paitich, D.; and Steiner, B. W.
“Medicolegal Aspects of Transsexualism.” Canadian Psychiatric Association
Journal 21(8) (Dec. 1976): 557-564.
Older item, included because not in earlier Homosexuality in Canada
bibliographies.
Noble, Jean Bobby.
“Sons of the Movement : Feminism, Female Masculinity and Female to
Male
(FTM) Transsexual Men.” Atlantis 29(1) (Fall 2004): 21+ (8 pages
Noble, Jean Bobby.
Sons of the Movement: FtMs
Risking Incoherence on a Post-queer
Cultural Landscape. Toronto: Women’s Press, 2006.
(143 p.; ISBN 088961461X)
Author at York University, Toronto. Book cover notes her also
as co-editor of The Drag King Anthology (Haworth Press, 2003)
and Masculinities without Men? (University of British Columbia
Press, 2003).
“The Oft’ Forgotten T: Transgendered Employees in Canada.” CAUT Legal Review
3(1)(May 2002): 19-24.
CAUT is
Canadian Association of University Teachers.
Ontario Human Rights Commission.
Policy on Discrimination and Harassment Because of Gender Identity.
Rev. ed.; Toronto, Ont.: The Commission, 2000.
(15p.)
Available on the Internet, as a computer disk, on audiotape, and in large
print, according to AMICUS catalogue record nos. 24777154 (English
record) and 24777178 (French-language record)
French-language title: Politique sur la
discrimination et le harcèlement en
raison
de l’identité sexuelle.
Ontario Human Rights Commission. Policy & Education Branch.
Toward a Commission Policy on Gender Identity: Discussion Paper.
Toronto: The Branch, 1999.
(29
p.; Microlog no. 100-01399, for microfiche format)
Paquette,
Marie-Claude, 1955-
17:
Marie-Claude Paquette: autobiographie.
Longueuil, QC: Editions Médialib,
impression
2002.
(126 p.; ISBN 2980773700)
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue no. 28007213, which applies a descriptor
noting item is a
Petersen, Maxine E., and Dickey, Robert.
“Surgical Sex Reassignment: A Comparative Survey of International Centers.”
Archives of Sexual Behavior 24(2) (April 1995): 135-156.
“Examined policies and criteria…currently used by European and North
American gender identity clinics” – from PsycINFO.
Author affiliation: Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto.
Petersen, Maxine, et al.
“Transsexuals within the Prison System: An International Survey of Correctional
Services Policies.” Behavioral Sciences & the Law 14(2) (Spring 1996):
219-229.
“Examined policies of 64 correctional facilities as they relate to
transsexual inmates in the European Community, Australia, Canada, and
the U.S.” – from PsycINFO.
“Police Service Welcomes Employee’s Sex Change: Co-Workers Counselled.”
Calgary Herald, January 9, 2000, p. A1, A2.
Calgary news event
Prasad, Ajnesh.
“Reconsidering the Socio-scientific Enterprise of Sexual Difference: The Case
of
(Winter/Spring 2005): 80-84.
Proulx, Monique, 1952-
Sex of the Stars. Translated from French by Matt Cohen. Vancouver:
Douglas &
McIntyre,
c1996.
(246
p.; ISBN 1550544950)
Original
French title: Sexe des étoiles.
Fictional account of transsexualism.
“Quebec, BC Won’t Foot the Bill.” Globe and Mail, January 1, 1988, p. A4.
Regarding sex change.
Richards, Gwendolyn.
“The Double Life of Frances Smith: For More than 80 Years, She Lived as a
Man, Now Her 11 Great-grandchildren – and Loyal Wife – Know Her as a
Woman.” Globe & Mail [
Richardson, Bill.
Guy to Goddess: A Candid Look at Drag Queens. North Vancouver, B.C.:
Whitecap Books, 1994.
(117 p.; ISBN 1551102544)
Review: Quill & Quire 61(1) (Jan. 1995): 30 (251 words).
“Rights Case Asks: What is a Woman?
BC Volunteer Expelled Because She Had Been
a He.” National Post, February 22, 2001, p.
A9.
Rutherford, Erica.
Nine Lives: The Autobiography of Erica Rutherford. Charlottetown, P.E.I.:
Ragweed Press, c1993.
(243 p.; ISBN 0921556365)
Biography of transsexual painter from Prince Edward Island.
Saunders, Sean.
“Crossing Out: Transgender (In)visibility in Twentieth-century Culture.”
Ph.D. thesis,
“Span[s] the period from the early years of the Cold War to the
early twenty-first century….” Concerns “medical theories of gender
variance” and “literary representations of transgendered subjects.”
“By reading these two discursive systems against each other, the
dissertation demonstrates the ability of literary discourse to accommodate
multifaceted subject positions which medical discourse is unable to
articulate….”
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33808081.
Schilder, A. J., et al.
“They Don’t See Our Feelings: The Health Care Experiences of HIV-Positive
Transgendered Persons.” Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical
Association [San Francisco] 2(3)(1998): 103-111.
Lead author at British Columbia Centre for Excellence in
HIV/AIDS, Vancouver.
Scott-Dixon, Krista, ed.
Trans/forming Feminisms: Trans/Feminist Voices Speak Out.
(255 p.; ISBN 1894549619; 9781894549615)
Thirty essays from
personal, and scholarly natures.
AMICUS record no. 33845665 presents title also as:
Trans: Trans/feminist Voices Speak Out.
“Sex Change: A Life Fulfilled.” Calgary Herald, August 12, 1990, p. C2.
Feature article; profile of Dawn Angela Wensley, engineer.
“Sex
Change Does Not Limit Person’s Rights, Court Finds.” National Post,
June 9,
2000, p. A4.
British Columbia; Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter.
Shelley, Christopher.
Transpeople: Repudiation, Trauma,
Healing.
Press, c2008.
(250 p.; ISBN 9780802097842, 9780802095398)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33817639, which notes, among
the eight descriptors,
one for Transsexuals –
Interviews.
Sherebrin, Hannah.
“Gender Dysphoria: The Therapist’s Dilemma – The Client’s Choice.”
Art Therapy 13(1) (1996): 47-53.
“Discusses the therapist’s role and the dilemmas faced in treating a gender
dysphoric client….Art therapy is discussed as an appropriate treatment
choice for a transsexual client” – from PsycINFO.
She’s a Boy I Knew.
SEE VIDEOS section of this list.
Sims, Mary-Woo.
“Why Trans-Gendered People Need Human Rights Protection.” Herizons 15(2)
(Fall 2001): 19-21+ (1758 words),
British Columbia human rights issue.
Skin Deep.
SEE VIDEOS section of this list.
Skin Deep, Episode 31, Susan.
SEE VIDEOS section of this list.
Skrapec, Candice A.
“Psychological
Self Perception in Transsexual Patients.”
M.Sc. (Psychology)
thesis, University of Calgary, 1980.
(ca. 90 leaves)
Steiner, Betty W., ed.
Gender Dysphoria: Development, Research, Management. New York:
Plenum, 1985.
(430 p.; ISBN 0306416948)
“The Story of David/Danielle.” Calgary Herald, December 6, 1987, p. D1.
Feature article.
“The Story of How One Man Became a Woman.” Gazette (Montreal),
February 3, 1991, pp. D1, D4.
Feature article; Richard/Jennifer Legault
S.T.U.D. (Shop ‘Till U Drop): The North American Transgender Resource Guide.
SEE entry at Brown, Veronica, in this section.
“Switching Sides – The Gains and the
Losses.” Maclean’s,
(589 words)
Interview; Aaron Devor, formerly Holly Devor; transsexuality.
Taft, Michael.
“Men in Women’s Clothes: Theatrical Transvestites on the Canadian Prairie.”
In Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada, pp. 131-138.
Edited by Pauline Greenhill. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press,
1997.
“The Third Way.” Globe and Mail [Metro ed.], September 25, 1999, pp. D1, D4.
“Tranfixed [Transfixed?] by Transgender.” Herizons 13(4) (March 2000): 47.
Trans Care.
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 32810619, which notes “Advocacy:
An advocacy guide for trans people and loved ones”, and provides a
lengthy contents note. The AMICUS record also provides a URL leading to
the Vancouver Coastal Health site Resource Catalogue. Because of this, the
user then might
wish also to look at the link given at Transgender Health
Program, below, also a Vancouver Coastal Health site.
Transgender Health Program
http://www.vch.ca/transhealth/
(viewed
This site provides a wide range of general and technical information.
Some of the more technical material (in medicine, particularly) has
received separate entry in this list. The user wishing a broader overview
might start with the link given here.
Transgender / Transsexual – Theorizing, Organizing, Cultural Production.
(6 [?] videocassettes)
Videotape of a symposium.
SEE Videos section of this list for a fuller entry.
Transsexual
Voyage
Video produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2000. See VIDEOS
section of this list.
“Transsexuals Lead Sad, Lonely Lives.” Calgary Herald, December 6, 1987, p. D1.
Feature article.
“Transsexuals
May Require Mammograms.” Medical
Post 27(44) (Dec.
17, 1991): 53.
Les Transsexuels et l’État civil.
Video. See VIDEOS section of this list.
Verret,
Patrick, 1958-
Changer
de sexe pour vivre enfin: le long combat de Manon devenue Patrick.
Laval,
Québec : Vivre enfin, 2005.
(543
p.; ISBN 2923113004)
Autobiographie.
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue record no.
30745747.
“When Jeff Became Joyce: After a Lifetime of Agonizing, Jeff Day Did Something
That No Canadian CEO Has Ever Done Before; He Became a Woman.”
Canadian Business 68(3) (March 1995): 94-95 (1925 words).
White, Caroline.
“Re/defining Gender and Sex: Educating for Trans, Transsexual, and Intersex
Access and Inclusion to Sexual Assault Centres and Transition Houses.”
M.A. thesis,
White, Caroline, and Goldberg, Joshua.
“Expanding Our Understanding of Gendered Violence: Violence against Trans
People and Their Loved Ones.” Canadian Woman Studies 25(1/2) (Winter 2006):
124-127.
Wilchesky, Marilyn, et al.
“Plasticity or Stability of Sexual Orientation in Male Transsexuals.”
Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 3(4) (Winter 1994): 327-332.
“Examines shifts in sexual orientation among a sample of 20 male-to-
female and
17 female-to-male transsexuals attending the
Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts from an Unrepentant Whore.
See VIDEOS section of this list.
Zucker, Kenneth J., and Bradley, Susan J.
Gender
Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and
Adolescents.
(440 p.; ISBN 0898622662)
Lead author
at Clarke Institute,