#trans female book

[kazumirambles-old]

‘If I Was Your Girl’  by Meredith Russo

Okay so I was reading the back cover for this, right? Because I was at the library and I didn’t want to get a stereotypical cishet romance.

And this is what I read.

“Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she’s determined not to get too close to anyone.

But when she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can’t help but start to let him into her life. As they spend more time together, she realizes just how much she is losing by guarding her heart. She finds herself yearning to share with Grant everything about herself, including her past. But Amanda’s terrified that once she tells him the truth, he won't be able to see past it.”

Seems boring, right? A cliche romance about having a secret and not getting too close to anyone, ending in eventual heartbreak. Yada yada yada.

But then my eyes skipped down to the next line (because I can’t control them)

“Because the secret that Amanda’s been keeping? It's that at her old school, she used to be Andrew. Will the truth cost Amanda her new life, and her new love?”

Me: ... Yes.

And then I read this book and cried and smiled and was happy and sad and all these emotions ahhhh-

I loved this book.

The romance was great.

The way people didn’t always become super accepting when Amanda came out was realistic.

And like- character development? They have backstories and aren’t just there when the author needed them-

Like-

It was amazing.

Thank you for coming to this rambling session. <3

1000/10

[letscumfornow]

Happy new year lovelies ✨🌹

[foxandcatlibrary]

32nd Book I Read in 2024

Title: Female Husbands

Author: Jen Manion

Notes: Bought this at Gay's The Word in London during a weekend trip last spring, but didn't get around to reading it until now. Such a great book though! Never knew about this part of trans history before and I am so happy I finally read it.

[uncanny-tranny]

I think many people conceptualize manhood as destruction and womanhood as creation in such a way that transition has been really wild to parse my experiences and how they fit.

I am simultaneously creating the self and destroying the self in such a way that people don't... know how to react sometimes. I've really noticed this as I've given less and less care as to what I present myself as, because now, I am truly only concerned with myself rather than my perception. Once I got over the bioessentialist idea that to be a man was to destroy, and I can't create because that's only for women (or, for those forced to create), I started caring much less.

I think that's interesting, is all

[qbdatabase]

do you love the color of trans visibility?

(click on the link below each picture to view a list of titles, authors, and brief summaries for each book!)

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion

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Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, violence, and threat of punishment. Female Husbands weaves the story of their lives in relation to broader social, economic, and political developments in the United States and the United Kingdom while also exploring how attitudes towards female husbands shifted in relation to transformations in gender politics and women's rights, ultimately leading to the demise of the category of 'female husband' in the early twentieth century.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this one yet, but it sounds interesting.

[transbookoftheday]

Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion

Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, violence, and threat of punishment. Female Husbands weaves the story of their lives in relation to broader social, economic, and political developments in the United States and the United Kingdom while also exploring how attitudes towards female husbands shifted in relation to transformations in gender politics and women's rights, ultimately leading to the demise of the category of 'female husband' in the early twentieth century. Groundbreaking and influential, Female Husbands offers a dynamic, varied, and complex history of the LGBTQ past.

[gxlden-angels]

I think it's so funny when Christian flat out reject the concept of being intersex like oh so me and about 2% of the population aren't real but you expect me to believe homeboy's gonna come back after (holy) ghosting us for over 2000 years?

[holly-natnicole]

Percy: "Mum...?"

Sally: "What's wrong, Sweetie?"

Percy: Me. "Nevermind..."

Sally: walks closer to her biological child then stops, standing in front of the 13-year-old with the adult's arms spread.

Sally: "Is it okay if I hug you, Percy?"

Percy: throws her arms around her mother, who returns the embrace then their cuddle ends a moment later.

Sally: places her hands on her kid's shoulders "You know that you can tell me anything, right?"

Percy: "...If I had been born a girl, what would you have named me?"

Sally: confused "A girl?"

Percy: steps backwards a few times, her mum's hands falling off the teen's shoulders "Nevermind."

Sally: "Percy, if you had been a girl instead of a boy, I would have named you Psyche. There was a Greek princess long ago. She endured despite all the hardships and found happiness, much like Perseus did."

Percy: frowns Nancy and other bullies would've called me Psycho for sure.

Sally: "Percy, what's on your mind?"

Percy: "It's nothing, Mum."

Percy: goes into her bedroom.

Percy a week later: "Mum, I'm a girl."

Sally (who had done research after what to her had been a strange conversation with her "son"): "Thank you, Percy, for trusting me. Do you want to change your name?"

Percy: "Wait, that's it? You believe me?"

Sally: holds her arms wide.

Percy: hugs her mum who returns the embrace.

Sally: "You're my daughter. Of course I trust you to tell me the truth."

Percy: silently cries against her mum's upper chest.

Sally: "Do you want to keep Percy as your name or choose a new one?"

Percy: "Both. I wanna replace Perseus with something that's pretty and can easily be shortened to Percy."

Sally: "How about Persephone?"

Percy: "Wasn't she kidnapped?"

Sally: "...Maybe not Persephone. But you didn't seem to like the name Psyche last week."

Percy: "Mum, do you know any other names?"

Sally: "There is Percilla. It's from the Latin word priscus, meaning venerable."

Percy: grins "Perfect!! Thank you, Mum!!"

[profiterole-reads]

2023 Favourites

In no particular order. This is content I've read and watched in 2023, not necessarily content released in 2023.

Books

1. Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans: fantasy with some m/m. The protagonist travels to other planes for alchemical ingredients and ends up having to learn greater workings. I love the Byzantine vibe of the worldbuilding.

2. The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai: fantasy with some f/f. Two women, a waterweaver and an earthweaver, join a women's rights movement. I love the Egyptian-inspired worldbuilding.

3. Reforged by Seth Haddon: m/m fantasy. This King/Paladin novel has a surprising plot. The magic system is very original as well, I especially like the music part of it.

4. The Buried and the Bound by Rochelle Hassan: urban fantasy with some m/m (YA). The hedgewitch protecting the town teams up with a boy cursed to forget his true love and another one trapped as a bondservant.

5. [Spanish] Lazos de Sangre by LR Jeffers: m/m urban fantasy (erotica). This is a series about werewolves and big cat shifters, usually angsty and hot.

6. [French] Meute by Karine Rennberg: urban fantasy with some m/m + another protagonist is aroace and uses sign language. This is a novel about building your own werewolf pack. I think this is my first time encountering 2nd-person narration in French and it works surprisingly well.

7. Cascade by Rachel A. Rosen: science fantasy with mlm and wlw protagonists + no romance. An ecological disaster has freed magic. In Canada, the Party works with a wizard in order to try and save humanity. I love the intricacies of the plot, which skilfully mixes politics, science and magic.

8. Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell: m/m science fiction. Telepathy, my favourite trope, done by one of my fave authors! It was even better than I expected.

9. The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei: science fiction/murder mystery with several non-binary major characters. 80 people from all around the world embark on a one-way interstellar voyage. As they're all required to get pregnant, they're obviously afab, but several are non-binary, with mentions of a trans man.

10. Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick: f/f romance (YA). This is a very romantic novel about two girls dating in secret until one gets amnesia. I enjoy this trope a lot.

TV shows

1. Good Omens: fantasy with queer protagonists + some f/f. I love the book and I love the adaptation. Season 2 is original content, but it's faithful to the spirit of the novel.

2. Shadow and Bone: fantasy with some m/m (YA). This successfully mixes the Shadow and Bone trilogy (that I haven't read) and the Six of Crows duology (that I have read and enjoyed).

3. Warrior Nun: fantasy with some f/f. Nuns literally fight against demons.

4. The Power: superpower fiction with some f/f + a trans woman and an intersex man. Teenage girls start developing an electrical superpower, which makes them safer from men.

5. Nü Er Hong: GL wuxia. This c-drama is a quick watch, with 27 episodes of 2 minutes. I love that these short webdramas always have more or less the same actresses.

6. The Devil Judge: dystopia/thriller with BL vibes. This k-drama has a tight plot and fascinating characters. There's a girl in a wheelchair and the rep is well done.

7. Naughty Babe: BL romance/murder (attempt) mystery. This Thai drama is the sequel to Cutie Pie, except that they switched up the main pairing and the secondary pairing. I think it's possible to watch it on its own.

8. Wedding Plan: BL + GL romcom. This Thai drama has mlm-wlw solidarity, which I hope to see more of in the future. There are also cameos from the BL couples from Love in the Air.

9. Oh! My Assistant: BL romcom. This hilarious k-drama is about a het porn webtoon creator and his assistant. Despite this topic, the drama is not explicit.

10. Welcome to the Lesbian Bar: GL contemporary fiction. This k-drama is a quick watch, with 5 episodes of 6 minutes. In each episode, 2 customers come have a drink and chat with the owner.

Movies

1. Barbie: fantasy that is so gender! This was such a big surprise coming from Hollywood.

2. Nimona: fantasy with a protagonist who is a trans/enby allegory + some m/m (YA). I haven't read the graphic novel, so this was more depressing than I expected (it deals a lot with discrimination), but still an excellent movie.

3. Wingwomen (Voleuses in the original French): action movie with a sapphic protagonist + f/f vibes between the other two. I love heist movies all about women.

4. Kill Bok-soon: action movie with some f/f. This Korean movie has interesting cinematography. Note that it's very violent, though.

5. Red, White & Royal Blue: m/m romcom. I love the book and I love the adaptation.

6. Anything's Possible: m/f romance with a trans female protagonist (YA). This is a very positive movie, about love, art and nature.

7. Fanfic: m/m romance with a trans male protagonist (YA). This Polish movie is sometimes dark, sometimes fun.

[rjalker]

"theyfab is just used to criticize the transmisogyny of AFAB nonbinary people!"

you aren't even exclusively using it for nonbinary people who use they/them pronouns though, not that that would make it any less inherently exorsexist and transmisic. You people will literally call a trans man or any nonbinary person, even ones who don't use they/them, a fucking theyfab.

You do not get to invent/steal brand new fucking slurs and then get mad when people call you out for calling trans people slurs.

If you have to invent slurs to call people "to criticize transmisogyny" you're not criticizing transmisogyny, you're just looking for a good excuse to be a bigot. If you can't criticize bigotry without literally calling people slurs, you have no fucking business criticizing bigotry. Because you don't even fucking know how to do it.

Especially if you think trans men, transmasculine people, and nonbinary people talking about the specific forms of oppression we face (Transandromisia, exorsexism, mispergeny, ect), is fucking transmisogyny all on its own because you can't fucking stand admitting that other trans people are also oppressed in ways you aren't.

Just because Julia Serano, a racist fucking transmedicalist, wrote a shitty book in 2007 lying about trans men, nonbinary people, and other culture's genders so she could declare that trans women were always the most oppressed in every situation no matter what, doesn't mean the rest of you get to keep doing it.

[transfem-goddess-temple]

Thank you, Goddess. I am so grateful that you’re allowing me to stay, and to be yours. I love how you dominate me with just your words, or yanking on my leash. I am yours, completely and utterly.

I just… last time you said your other followers could dom me too, and I was wondering when that would start? I just want to be a good subby boy for you and your followers, Goddess.

Please make this happen, I beseech thee. I am yours.

I’m glad you liked being my leashed sub. As for my other followers, I’m sure they would love to play with you when we get our discord created. When that’s done, you can mark yourself as a free use boy toy for anyone to use when they want. It will be greatly appreciated to have such an obedient boy to shove into our superior pussies.

I’m glad you know who you belong to~

[punkeropercyjackson]

Leah is my Annabeth and Logan isn't my Percy

[qbdatabase]

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi There are no monsters anymore. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. View the full summary and rep info on wordpress or check it out for free from the Queer Liberation Library!

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships by Juno Roche

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In this frank, funny and poignant book, transgender activist Juno Roche discusses sex, desire and dating with leading figures from the trans and non-binary community. Calling out prejudices and inspiring readers to explore their own concepts of intimacy and sexuality, the first-hand accounts celebrate the wonder and potential of trans bodies and push at the boundaries of how society views gender, sexuality and relationships. Empowering and necessary, this collection shows all trans people deserve to feel brave, beautiful and sexy.

Mod opinion: I haven't heard of this book before, but it sounds really interesting, especially since it deals with transgender sexuality, which is always an interesting topic to me.

[tychodorian]

Exploring Astrid's Journey in King of Dust

CW: Very brief mentions of abuse and food insecurity

Today, let's shine the spotlight on Astrid, one of the central characters in King of Dust. Her journey is a tale of resilience and courage!

Astrid's childhood was far from idyllic. Raised by parents gripped by fear of creatures lurking in the night, she was confined to the darkness of their basement, deprived of light, companionship, and nourishment.

But Astrid's story takes a turn when she bravely escapes her confines and stumbles upon Darius' castle. To her, he appears as a beacon of hope, a fairytale prince come to rescue her from her nightmare. Little does she know, Darius is no ordinary prince – he's a vampire with his own demons to confront.

As Astrid's journey intertwines with Darius', the lines between fantasy and reality blur, leading to a captivating and unexpected romance. Despite the dangers that surround them, their bond grows stronger, challenging both characters to confront their fears and embrace their true selves.

If you're drawn to captivating characters and unexpected romances, King of Dust is the book for you. Join Astrid on her journey of self-discovery and adventure by backing the Kickstarter campaign today. Trust me, her story is one you won't want to miss.

Head over to Kickstarter now to secure your copy of King of Dust and dive into Astrid's captivating tale. Let the adventure begin!

You can find the link to the Kickstarter in my pinned post! Look for the Linktree, and click the top button.