Every trans-feminist book

This is my best attempt to compile a list of every single English-language trans-feminist book. If you know a book that isn't on this list, let me know. I’ll add it!

For the purposes of this list, trans-feminism is defined as either (a) a specific focus on the experiences of trans women through a liberatory lens or (b) an examination of the relationship between feminism and transgender politics, with a pro-trans angle. This means that general trans books (like Jules Gill-Peterson’s Histories of the Transgender Child) don't make the list, nor do general feminist books that may be important to trans politics (like Judith Butler's Gender Trouble). For a broader list, see here.

I have also included some essays. I have not read every book on this list. There is at least one book on this list that I do not think is particularly good.

Bey, Marquis. Black Trans Feminism. Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study. Duke University Press, 2022.

Bhatt, Talia. Brown/Trans/Les. Self-published, 2026.

Bhatt, Talia. Trans/Rad/Fem. Self-published, 2025.

Butler, Judith. Who’s Afraid of Gender? Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2024.

Califia-Rice, Patrick. Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism. 2nd ed. Cleis Press, 2003.

Chu, Andrea Long. Females. 2025 edition. Verso, 2025.

Doyle, Jude. DILF: Did I Leave Feminism? Melville House, 2025.

Enke, Anne, ed. Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies. Temple University Press, 2012.

Faye, Shon. The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All. London ; New York, 2022.

Gill-Peterson, Jules. A Short History of Trans Misogyny. 2024; Verso, 2025.

Heaney, Emma, ed. Feminism against Cisness. Asterisk : Gender, Trans-, and All That Comes After. Duke University Press, 2024.

Heaney, Emma. The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory. Flashpoints. Northwestern University Press, 2017.

Koyama, Emi. “The Transfeminist Manifesto.” Eminism, June 26, 2001. https://eminism.org/readings/pdf-rdg/tfmanifesto.pdf.

Lewis, Sophie. Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses against Liberation. Haymarket Books, 2025.

MacKinnon, Catharine A. “A Feminist Defense of Transgender Sex Equality Rights.” Pt. 88. Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 24, no. 2 (2023).

MacKinnon, Catharine A., Finn Mackay, Mischa Shuman, Sandra Fredman, and Ruth Chang. “Exploring Transgender Law and Politics.” Signs, November 28, 2022. https://signsjournal.org/exploring-transgender-law-and-politics/#_ftnref6.

Namaste, Viviane K. Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People. University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Namaste, Viviane K. Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions and Imperialism. 2nd ed. Women’s Press, 2011.

Riddell, Carol. “Divided Sisterhood: A Critical Review of Janice Raymond’s The Transsexual Empire.” In The Transgender Studies Reader. Routledge, 2006.

Schuller, Kyla. The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism. First edition. Bold Type Books, 2021.

Scott-Dixon, Krista, ed. Trans/Forming Feminisms: Trans/Feminist Voices Speak Out. Women’s Issues Publishing Program. Sumach Press, 2006.

Serano, Julia. Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive. Seal Press, 2013.

Serano, Julia. Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism & Trans Feminism. Switch Hitter Press, 2016.

Serano, Julia. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. 2007. 2nd ed. Seal Press, 2016.

Stone, Sandy. “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto.” In The Transgender Studies Reader. 1987, n.d.

Stryker, Susan, and Aren Z. Aizura, eds. The Transgender Studies Reader 2. Routledge, 2013.

Stryker, Susan, and Dylan McCarthy Blackston, eds. The Transgender Studies Reader Remix. Routledge, 2022.

Stryker, Susan, and McKenzie Wark. When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader. Asterisk. Duke University Press, 2024.

Stryker, Susan, and Stephen Whittle, eds. The Transgender Studies Reader. Routledge, 2006.

Williams, Rachel Anne. Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism and Politics. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019.