NOTES

MYTH 1: YOU’VE NEVER MET A TRANSGENDER PERSON

Kerith J. Conron, Gunner Scott, Grace Sterling Stowell, and Stewart J. Landers, “Transgender Health in Massachusetts: Results from a Household Probability Sample of Adults,” American Journal of Public Health 102, no. 1 (2012): 118–22.

Lynn Conway, “How Frequently Does Transsexualism Occur?,” University of Michigan, 2012, http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/TSprevalence.html.

Gary J. Gates, “How Many People Are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender?,” Williams Institute, 2011, http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf.

MYTH 2: ALL TRANS PEOPLE WANT TO BE EITHER BARBIE OR KEN

Rachel Abrams, “Barbie Adds Curvy and Tall to Body Shapes,” New York Times, January 28, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/business/barbie-now-in-more-shapes.html.

Genny Beemyn, “US History,” in Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community, ed. Laura Erickson-Schroth (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Harry Benjamin, The Transsexual Phenomenon (New York: Julian Press, 1966).

H. Dittmar, E. Halliwell, and S. Ive, “Do Barbie Dolls Make Girls Want to Be Thin?,” Developmental Psychology 42, no. 2 (2006): 283–92.

Erica Rand, Barbie’s Queer Accessories (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995).

Eli Coleman et al., “Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7,” International Journal of Transgenderism 13, no. 4 (2012): 165–232.

MYTH 3: YOU’RE NOT REALLY TRANS IF YOU HAVEN’T HAD “THE SURGERY”

Jules Chyten-Brennan, “Surgical Transition,” in Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves.

Coleman et al., “Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7.”

Laura Erickson-Schroth, Marci L. Bowers, and Tamar C. Carmel, “Transgender Surgery,” in The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, 3 vols., ed. Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin (Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015).

MYTH 4: TRANS PEOPLE ARE “TRAPPED IN THE WRONG BODY”

Benjamin, The Transsexual Phenomenon.

Laura Erickson-Schroth, “Update on the Biology of Transgender Identity,” Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health 17, no. 2 (2013): 150–74.

Laura Erickson-Schroth, Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, and T. Evan Smith, “Sex and Gender Development,” in Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves.

Anne Fausto-Sterling, Myths of Gender: Biological Theories of Women and Men (New York: Basic Books, 1992).

——, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (New York: Basic Books, 2000).

——, Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World (New York: Routledge, 2012).

Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010).

Francine Russo, “Is There Something Unique About the Transgender Brain?,” Scientific American, January 1, 2016, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-there-something-unique-about-the-transgender-brain/.

MYTH 5: TRANS PEOPLE ARE SECRETLY GAY

Tim Bergling, Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior (New York: Southern Tier Editions, 2001).

Shinsuke Eguchi, “Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinity: The Rhetorical Strategy of ‘Straight-Acting’ Among Gay Men,” Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 38, no. 3 (2009): 193–209.

Sabra L. Katz-Wise et al., “Differences in Sexual Orientation Diversity and Sexual Fluidity in Attractions Among Gender Minority Adults in Massachusetts,” Journal of Sex Research 53, no. 1 (2016): 74–84.

Andrea L. Roberts et al., “Childhood Gender Nonconformity: A Risk Indicator for Childhood Abuse and Posttraumatic Stress in Youth,” Pediatrics 129, no. 3 (2012): 410–17.

Andrea L. Roberts et al., “Childhood Gender Nonconformity, Bullying Victimization, and Depressive Symptoms Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood: An 11-Year Longitudinal Study,” Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 52, no. 2 (2013): 143–52.

W. Christopher Skidmore et al., “Gender Nonconformity and Psychological Distress in Lesbians and Gay Men,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 35, no. 6 (2006): 685–97.

Kittiwut Jod Taywaditep, “Marginalization Among the Marginalized: Gay Men’s Anti-Effeminacy Attitudes,” Journal of Homosexuality 42, no. 1 (2002): 1–28.

MYTH 6: IT’S RUDE TO ASK HOW YOU SHOULD ADDRESS SOMEONE

Jessica Bennett, “She? Ze? They? What’s in a Gender Pronoun?,” New York Times, January 30, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/fashion/pronoun-confusion-sexual-fluidity.html.

Jennifer Conlin, “The Freedom to Choose Your Pronoun,” New York Times, September 30, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/fashion/choosing-a-pronoun-he-she-or-other-after-curfew.html?_r=0.

Gender Neutral Pronoun Blog, https://genderneutralpronoun.wordpress.com/.

Tamara Khandaker, “U of T Prof Ignores University’s Demands He Use Students’ Preferred Gender Pronouns,” VICE, October 20, 2016, http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/u-of-t-prof-ignores-universitys-demand-he-use-students-preferred-gender-pronouns.

Elizabeth Reis, “Pronoun Privilege,” New York Times, September 25, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/26/opinion/pronoun-privilege.html?_r=0.

Todd Starnes, “‘His Majesty’: Student Single-Handedly Defeats an Army of Gender Neutral Activists,” Fox News Opinion, September 30, 2016, http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/09/30/his-majesty-student-single-handedly-defeats-army-gender-neutral-activists.html.

Kate Steinmetz, “This Gender-Neutral Word Could Replace ‘Mr.’ and ‘Ms.,’” Time, November 10, 2015, http://time.com/4106718/what-mx-means/.

Alex Williams, “Is Hayden a Boy or Girl? Both. ‘Post-Gender’ Baby Names Are on the Rise,” New York Times, August 18, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/fashion/gender-neutral-baby-names.html.

Hannah Cregan Zigler, “Transgender Actress Laverne Cox Delivers Speech in Marshall Auditorium,” Clerk, November 10, 2014, http://haverfordclerk.com/transgender-actress-laverne-cox-delivers-speech-in-marshall-auditorium/.

MYTH 7: “SURE, I’D LOVE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT’S IN MY PANTS”

Loren Cameron, Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits (Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1996).

Katie McDonough, “Laverne Cox Flawlessly Shuts Down Katie Couric’s Invasive Questions About Transgender People,” Salon, January 7, 2014, http://www.salon.com/2014/01/07/laverne_cox_artfully_shuts_down_katie_courics_invasive_questions_about_transgender_people/.

Christine Jorgensen, Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography (New York: Bantam Books, 1968).

MYTH 8: MOST TRANS PEOPLE ARE SEX WORKERS AND HAVE HIV

Augustus Klein and Sarit A. Golub, “Family Rejection as a Predictor of Suicide Attempts and Substance Misuse Among Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adults,” LGBT Health 3, no. 3 (June 2016): 193–99.

Erin Fitzgerald et al., Meaningful Work: Transgender Experiences in the Sex Trade (Trans Equality, December 2015), http://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/Meaningful%20Work-Full%20Report_FINAL_3.pdf.

Karen I. Fredriksen-Goldsen et al., The Aging and Health Report: Disparities and Resilience Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults (Seattle: Institute for Multigenerational Health, 2011), http://caringandaging.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Full-Report-FINAL-11-16-11.pdf.

Jaime M. Grant et al., Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (Washington, DC: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force/National Center for Transgender Equality, 2011), http://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/resources/NTDS_Report.pdf.

Mike Mariani, “Exchanging Sex for Survival,” Atlantic, June 26, 2014, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/exchanging-sex-for-survival/371822/.

Asher Moses, “Our Sexual Desires Exposed by Neuroscientists’ Porn Study,” Sydney Morning Herald, June 21, 2011, http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/our-sexual-desires-exposed-by-neuroscientists-porn-study-20110621-1gcol.html.

Larry Nuttbrock et al., “Lifetime Risk Factors for HIV/STI Infections Among Male-to-Female Transgender Persons,” Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 52, no. 3 (November 1, 2009): 417–21.

Red Umbrella Project, http://www.redumbrellaproject.org.

Stefan Rowniak et al., “Transmen: The HIV Risk of Gay Identity,” AIDS Education and Prevention 23, no. 6 (2011): 508, http://www.hivplusmag.com/case-studies/2013/04/08/invisible-women-why-transgender-women-are-hit-so-hard-hiv.

Sex Workers Project, http://sexworkersproject.org.

Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN), http://swannet.org.

Carrie Weisman, “Why Trans Porn Is Hugely Popular Among Hetero Men,” Alternet, June 6, 2016, http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/why-trans-porn-hugely-popular-among-hetero-men.

MYTH 9: TRANS PEOPLE HATE THEIR BODIES

Michael Aaron, “BDSM as Harm Reduction,” Standard Deviations, blog, Psychology Today, October 13, 2016, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/standard-deviations/201610/bdsm-harm-reduction.

Michael Aaron, “Enough with the Trauma,” Standard Deviations, blog, Psychology Today, August 3, 2016, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/standard-deviations/201608/enough-the-trauma-reductionism.

Carolin Klein and Boris B. Gorzalka, “Continuing Medical Education: Sexual Functioning in Transsexuals Following Hormone Therapy and Genital Surgery: A Review (CME),” Journal of Sexual Medicine 6, no. 11 (2009): 2922–39.

Alexis D. Light et al., “Transgender Men Who Experienced Pregnancy After Female-to-Male Gender Transitioning,” Obstetrics & Gynecology 124, no. 6 (2014): 1120–27.

S. M. Peitzmeier et al., “Pap Test Use Is Lower Among Female-to-Male Patients Than Non-Transgender Women,” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 47, no. 6 (2014): 808–12, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2014.07.031.

The Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery, “Frequently Asked Questions,” http://www.thetransgendercenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75&Itemid=145.

S. L. Reisner et al., “Legal Protections in Public Accommodations Settings: A Critical Public Health Issue for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People,” Milbank Quarterly 93, no. 3 (2015): 484–515.

G. Selvaggi et al., “Genital Sensitivity After Sex Reassignment Surgery in Transsexual Patients,” Annals of Plastic Surgery 58, no. 4 (April 2007): 427–33, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17413887.

Kai Cheng Thom, “How Trans Women Are Reclaiming Their Orgasms,” Buzzfeed LGBT, April 17, 2016, https://www.buzzfeed.com/kaichengthom/the-search-for-trans-womens-orgasms?utm_term=.xkLyMbx0x#.csWQGorDr.

MYTH 10: TRANS PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO TRICK OTHERS

Carsten Balzer, Every 3rd Day the Murder of a Trans Person Is Reported (Liminalis, July 2009), http://www.liminalis.de/2009_03/TMM/tmm-englisch/Liminalis-2009-TMM-report2008-2009-en.pdf.

Sarah E. Belawski and Carey Jean Sojka, “Intimate Relationships,” in Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves.

Shayna Jacobs, “Murder Suspect Said His ‘Manhood’ Was Threatened When He Found Out He Was Hitting on Transgender Woman,” New York Daily News, April 1, 2016, http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/transgender-slay-suspect-manhood-threatened-article-1.2585915.

Cynthia Lee and Peter Kar Yu Kwan, “The Trans Panic Defense: Heter-onormativity, and the Murder of Transgender Women,” 66 Hastings Law Journal 77 (2014), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2014-10, http://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2377&context=faculty_publications.

Paris Lees, “Should Trans People Have to Disclose Their Birth Gender Before Sex?,” Vice, July 1, 2013, http://www.vice.com/read/should-trans-people-have-to-disclose-their-birth-gender-before-sex.

Parker Marie Molloy, “California Becomes First State to Ban Gay, Trans ‘Panic’ Defenses,” Advocate, September 29, 2014, http://www.advocate.com/crime/2014/09/29/california-becomes-first-state-ban-gay-trans-panic-defenses.

Rebecca Rosenberg, “Man Cops Plea in Transgender Woman’s Fatal Beating,” New York Post, April 4, 2016, http://nypost.com/2016/04/04/man-who-killed-transgender-woman-in-blind-fury-takes-plea-deal/.

“Should It Be Illegal for a Transsexual to Trick a Straight Person?,” Debate.org, http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-it-be-illegal-for-a-transsexual-to-trick-a-straight-person, accessed January 10, 2017.

Reid Vanderburgh, “Coming Out,” in Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves.

MYTH 11: MOST TRANS PEOPLE CAN’T FIND PARTNERS AND END UP LONELY

Erving Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963).

Lewis Hancox, “12 Things You Should Know Before Dating a Transgender Guy,” Cosmopolitan, December 23, 2015, http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/love-sex/relationships/a40338/dating-transgender-guy-information/.

Jazz Jennings, “15-Year-Old Transgender Girl Opens Up About Her Quest to Find Love,” Harper’s Bazaar, October 18, 2016, http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a17833/women-who-dare-jazz-jennings/.

Megan, “A Beginner’s Guide to Dating a Transgendered Person,” Perks Magazine, October 17, 2013, http://perksmag.com/sexuality/beginners-guide-dating-transgendered-person/.

Jay McNeil et al., Trans Mental Health Study 2012 (Scottish Transgender Alliance, September 2012), http://www.scottishtrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/trans_mh_study.pdf.

Singles in America, survey, Match.com, 2015, http://www.singlesinamerica.com.

Kai Cheng Thom, “6 Things Every Man Who Dates Trans Women Needs to Know,” Everyday Feminism, October 7, 2015, http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/10/men-who-date-trans-women/.

MYTH 12: TRANS PEOPLE ARE A DANGER TO OTHERS, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN

Advocates for Youth, Tips and Strategies for Addressing the Challenges That Face Transgender Youth, http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/publications-a-z/497-tips-and-strategies-for-addressing-the-challenges-that-face-transgender-youth, accessed December 19, 2016. Document adapted with permission from the Transgender Law Center, Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Youth: Recommendations for Schools (San Francisco: The Center, 2003).

Anti-Violence Project, “Hate Violence Against Transgender Communities,” http://www.avp.org/storage/documents/ncavp_transhvfactsheet.pdf, accessed December 19, 2016.

Marcie Blanco, “Statistics Show Exactly How Many Times Trans People Have Attacked You in Bathrooms,” Mic.com, April 2, 2015, https://mic.com/articles/114066/statistics-show-exactly-how-many-times-trans-people-have-attacked-you-in-bathrooms#.yyn2vBnyG.

Leslie Cooper, Protecting the Rights of Transgender Parents and Their Children: A Guide for Parents and Lawyers (New York: ACLU, March 2013), https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/aclu-tg_parenting_guide.pdf.

John Cotter, “Transgender Teacher’s Complaint to Be Heard,” Global News, January 12, 2014, http://globalnews.ca/news/1075170/transgender-teachers-complaint-to-be-heard/.

Mara Gay, “City Seeking to Diversify Foster Care System,” Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2013, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887824563004578521604208702758.

Emanuela Grinberg, “Settlement Reached in Transsexual Custody Case,” CNN International, June 16, 2005, http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/16/ctv.transsexual.custody/.

Klein and Golub, “Family Rejection as a Predictor of Suicide Attempts and Substance Misuse Among Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adults.”

Slav Kornik, “Alberta Catholic School District Spent $367,000 on Legal Battle with Transgender Teacher,” Global News, May 2, 2016, http://globalnews.ca/news/2674951/alberta-catholic-school-district-spent-367000-on-legal-battle-with-transgender-teacher/.

Ines San Martin, “Pope Calls Gender Theory a ‘Global War’ Against the Family,” Crux, October 1, 2016, https://cruxnow.com/global-church/2016/10/01/pope-calls-gender-theory-global-war-family/.

Janet Mock, “Trans Women *Are* Real Women: Janet Mock on How Her Role Models Shaped Her Journey,” Marie Claire, April 23, 2015, http://www.marieclaire.com/beauty/news/a14161/my-transgender-beauty-role-models/.

National Alliance on Mental Illness, “LGBTQ,” https://www.nami.org/Find-Support/LGBTQ, accessed December 19, 2016.

Kristina R. Olson et al., “Mental Health of Transgender Children Who Are Supported in Their Identities,” Pediatrics (February 2016), peds.2015-3223; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2015-3223.

Monica Roberts, “Why Black Transgender Role Models Are Important,” TransGriot, April 19, 2009, http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-black-transgender-role-models-are.html.

Sam Roberts, “Marla Krolikowski, Transgender Teacher Fired for Insubordination, Dies at 62,” New York Times, September 28, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/nyregion/marla-krolikowski-transgender-teacher-fired-for-insubordination-dies-at-62.html?_r=o.

Rebecca L. Stotzer, Jody L. Herman, and Amira Hasenbush, Transgender Parenting: A Review of Existing Research (Los Angeles: Williams Institute, UCLA Law School, October 2014).

Danielle Tcholkian, “Students Fight for Teacher Allegedly Fired for Being Transgender,” Metro, December 9, 2014, http://www.metro.us/local /students-fight-for-teacher-allegedly-fired-for-being-transgender/tmWman—8b4TZrkPRH0A/.

MYTH 13: “YOU’RE IN THE WRONG BATHROOM!”

Travis M. Andrews, “Target CEO Responds to Nationwide Boycott of the Store Over Transgender Bathroom Policy,” Washington Post, May 13, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/13/target-ceo-responds-to-nationwide-boycott-of-the-store-over-transgender-bathroom-policy/.

Jake Damien, “As a Transgender Man, Choosing Which Bathroom to Use Can Be Agony,” Fusion, June 28, 2016, http://fusion.net/story/320068/transgender-man-bathrooms-locker-rooms-fear/.

Jody L. Herman, “Gendered Restrooms and Minority Stress: The Public Regulation of Gender and Its Impact on Transgender People’s Lives,” Journal of Public Management & Social Policy (Spring 2013), http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Herman-Gendered-Restrooms-and-Minority-Stress-June-2013.pdf.

Human Rights Watch, Shut Out: Restrictions on Bathroom and Locker Room Access for Transgender Youth in US Schools (New York: Human Rights Watch, September 13, 2016), https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/09/13/shut-out/restrictions-bathroom-and-locker-room-access-transgender-youth-us-schools.

Mitch Kellaway, “Woman Sues Restaurant That Ejected Her from the Bathroom for Looking ‘Like a Man,’” Advocate, June 17, 2015, http://www.advocate.com/business/2015/06/17/detroit-woman-kicked-out-restaurant-bathroom-looking-man-sues.

Jennifer 8 Lee, “Ejection of a Woman from a Women’s Room Prompts Lawsuit,” New York Times, October 9, 2007, http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/ejection-of-a-woman-from-a-womens-room-prompts-lawsuit/.

Joe Morgan, “Trans Man Takes on Selfie Campaign to Fight ‘Ridiculous’ Bathroom Bans,” Gay Star News, March 12, 2015, http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/trans-man-takes-selfie-campaign-fight-ridiculous-bathroom-bans120315/#gs.iHpdlOc.

JamesMichael Nichols, “Trans Woman Asks: ‘You Really Want Me in the Same Bathroom as Your Husband?,’” Huffington Post, November 5, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-trans-woman-asks-you-really-want-me-in-the-same-bathroom-as-your-husband_us_563b997fe4b0411d3070003a.

Office for Victims of Crime, Responding to Transgender Victims of Sexual Assault (Washington, DC: US Dept. of Justice, June 2014), http://www.ovc.gov/pubs/forge/sexual_numbers.html.

Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Center at the University of Michigan, “Understanding the Perpetrator,” https://sapac.umich.edu/article/196, accessed December 19, 2016.

Rebecca J. Stones, “Which Gender Is More Concerned About Transgender Women in Female Bathrooms?,” Gender Issues (December 19, 2016), doi:10.1007/s12147-016-9181-6.

Transgender Law Center, “Arizona Bathroom Bill Flushed Away–For Now,” June 6, 2013, http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/8128.

Tim Wildmon, “10 Examples of Men Abusing Target’s Dangerous Policy,” The Stand, blog, American Family Association, September 29, 2016, http://www.afa.net/the-stand/press-releases/2016/09/10-examples-of-men-abusing-targets-dangerous-policy/#.V-0oxnb_PE4.facebook.

MYTH 14: TRANS PEOPLE ARE MENTALLY ILL AND THERAPY CAN CHANGE THEM

American College of Pediatricians, “Gender Ideology Harms Children,” http://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/gender-ideology-harms-children, updated August 17, 2016.

American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd ed. (Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1980).

American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed. (Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1994).

American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th ed. (Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 2013).

L. Bye et al., California Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgender Tobacco Use Survey—2004 (San Francisco: California Department of Health Services, 2005), http://www.lgbttobacco.org/files/2004%20-%20Bye%20LGBTTobaccoStudy.pdf.

Tamar Carmel and Laura Erickson-Schroth, “Mental Health and the Transgender Population,” Psychiatric Annals 46, no. 6 (2016): 346–49.

E. Castellano et al., “Quality of Life and Hormones After Sex Reassignment Surgery,” Journal of Endocrinological Investigation 38, no. 12 (2015): 1373–81, http://doi.org/10.1007/s40618–015–0398–0.

Colin Close, Affirming Gender, Affirming Lives: A Report of the 2011 Transition Survey (Santa Rosa, CA: GATE, July 2012), http://www.transstudent.org/Afhrming_Gender.pdf.

M. Colizzi et al., “Transsexual Patients’ Psychiatric Comorbidity and Positive Effect of Cross-Sex Hormonal Treatment on Mental Health: Results from a Longitudinal Study,” Psychoneuroendocrinology 39 (2014): 65–73.

A. L. C. de Vries et al., “Young Adult Psychological Outcome After Puberty Suppression and Gender Reassignment,” Pediatrics 134, no. 4 (2014): 696–704.

Jack Drescher, “Gender Diagnoses in the DSM and ICD,” Psychiatric Annals 46, no. 6 (2016): 350–54.

Diane Ehrensaft, “We Trust Kids to Know What Gender They Are,” University of California News, May 27, 2015, http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/we-trust-kids-know-what-gender-they-are.

Diane Ehrensaft, “Apples, Oranges, and Fruit Salad: Sorting out Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, & Nonbinary Children and Youth,” GID Reform blog, September 23, 2016, https://gidreform.wordpress.com.

Laura Erickson-Schroth and Elizabeth Glaeser, “The Role of Resilience and Resilience Characteristics in Health Promotion,” in Trauma, Resilience, and Health Promotion for LGBT Patients: What Every Healthcare Provider Should Know, ed. Kristen L. Eckstrand and Jennifer Potter (New York: Springer, 2017).

Fredriksen-Goldsen, et al., The Aging and Health Report.

Zach Ford, “Infamous Reparative Therapy Clinic for Transgender Youth Set to Close,” Think Progress, December 16, 2015, https://thinkprogress.org/infamous-reparative-therapy-clinic-for-transgender-youth-set-to-close-bd4e960519c3#.l5ihpm2xa.

Jaime Grant et al., National Transgender Discrimination Survey Report on Health and Health Care (Washington, DC: National Center for Transgender Equality, October 2010), http://www.thetaskforce.org/static_html/downloads/resources_and_tools/ntds_report_on_health.pdf.

Nick Gorton and Hilary Maia Grubb, “General, Sexual, and Reproductive Health,” in Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves.

Michael L. Hendricks and Rylan J. Testa, “A Conceptual Framework for Clinical Work with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients: An Adaptation of the Minority Stress Model,” Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 43, no. 5 (October 2012): 460-67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0029597.

Human Rights Campaign, “The Lies and Dangers of Efforts to Change Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity,” http://www.hrc.org/resources/the-lies-and-dangers-of-reparative-therapy.

Justin Ling, “Canada’s Most Populous Province Just Banned Conversion Therapy for LGBTQ Youth,” Vice, June 4, 2015, https://news.vice.com/article/canadas-most-populous-province-just-banned-conversion-therapy-for-lgbtq-youth.

E. Lombardi, “Substance Use Treatment Experiences of Transgender/Transsexual Men and Women,” Journal of LGBT Health Research 3, no. 2 (2007): 37–47.

Paul McHugh, “Transgender Surgery Isn’t the Solution,” Wall Street Journal, June 12, 2014, http://www.wsj.com/articles/paul-mchugh-transgender-surgery-isnt-the-solution-1402615120.

I. H. Meyer, “Prejudice, Social Stress, and Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations: Conceptual Issues and Research Evidence,” Psychological Bulletin 129, no. 5 (2003): 674.

M. H. Murad et al., “Hormonal Therapy and Sex Reassignment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Quality of Life and Psychosocial Outcomes,” Clinical Endocrinology 72, no. 2 (2010): 214-31, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2009.03625.x.

National Alliance on Mental Illness, “LGBTQ.”

Olson et al., “Mental Health of Transgender Children Who Are Supported in Their Identities.”

Casey Plett, “Zucker’s ‘Therapy’ Mourned Almost Exclusively by Cis People,” Harlot Media, April 11, 2016, http://harlot.media/articles/2582/zuckers-therapy-mourned-almost-exclusively-by-cis-people.

C. Ryan et al., “Family Acceptance in Adolescence and the Health of LGBT Adults,” Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 23 (2010): 205–13.

Julia Serano, “Placing Ken Zucker’s Clinic in Historical Context,” Whipping Girl, February 9, 2016, http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2016/02/placing-ken-zuckers-clinic-in.html.

Michael D. Shear, “Obama Calls for End to ‘Conversion’ Therapies for Gay and Transgender Youth,” New York Times, April 8, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/us/politics/obama-to-call-for-end-to-conversion-therapies-for-gay-and-transgender-youth.html.

J. M. White Hughto and S. L. Reisner, “A Systematic Review of the Effects of Hormone Therapy on Psychological Functioning and Quality of Life in Transgender Individuals,” Transgender Health 1, no. 1 (2016): 21–31.

Coleman et al., “Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7.”

MYTH 15: GETTING HORMONES AND SURGERY IS EASY

Cecilia Dhejne et al., “An Analysis of All Applications for Sex Reassignment Surgery in Sweden, 1960–2010: Prevalence, Incidence, and Regrets,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 43, no. 8 (2014): 1535–45.

Juno Obedin-Maliver et al., “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender–Related Content in Undergraduate Medical Education,” Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 306, no. 9 (2011): 971–77.

F. Pfaffln and A. Junge, Sex Reassignment: Thirty Years of International Follow-Up Studies After SRS—A Comprehensive Review, 1961–1991, trans. Roberta B. Jacobson and Alf B. Meier (orig., 1992; Dusseldorf, Germany: Symposion Publishing, 1998), published as a supplement to the International Journal of Transgenderism, http://web.archive.org/web/20070503090247/.

MYTH 16: TESTOSTERONE MAKES YOU ANGRY AND ESTROGEN MAKES YOU EMOTIONAL

Colizzi et al., “Transsexual Patients’ Psychiatric Comorbidity and Positive Effect of Cross-Sex Hormonal Treatment on Mental Health.”

A. Costantino et al., “A Prospective Study on Sexual Function and Mood in Female-to-Male Transsexuals During Testosterone Administration and After Sex Reassignment Surgery,” Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 39, no. 4 (2013): 321–35.

Dhejne et al., “An Analysis of All Applications for Sex Reassignment Surgery in Sweden.”

G. Heylens et al., “Effects of Different Steps in Gender Reassignment Therapy on Psychopathology: A Prospective Study of Persons with a Gender Identity Disorder,” Journal of Sexual Medicine 11, no. 1 (2014): 119–26.

Hughto and Reisner, “A Systematic Review of the Effects of Hormone Therapy on Psychological Functioning and Quality of Life in Transgender Individuals.”

Chiara Manieri et al., “Medical Treatment of Subjects with Gender Identity Disorder: The Experience in an Italian Public Health Center,” International Journal of Transgenderism 15, no. 2 (2014): 53–65.

Murad et al., “Hormonal Therapy and Sex Reassignment.”

F. Pfafflin and A. Junge, Sex Reassignment.

K. Wierckx et al., “Sexual Desire in Female-to-Male Transsexual Persons: Exploration of the Role of Testosterone Administration,” European Journal of Endocrinology 165, no. 2 (2011): 331–37.

K. Wierckx et al., “Sexual Desire in Trans Persons: Associations with Sex Reassignment Treatment,” Journal of Sexual Medicine 11, no. 1 (2014): 107–18, doi:10.1111/jsm.12365.

MYTH 17: LAWS SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE

Morgan Bassichis, Alexander Lee, and Dean Spade, “Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got,” in Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, ed. Eric A Stanley and Nat Smith (Oakland, CA: AK Press), 15–40.

Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Matt Apuzzo, “U.S. Directs Public Schools to Allow Transgender Access to Restrooms,” New York Times, May 12, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/us/politics/obama-administration-to-issue-decree-on-transgender-access-to-school-restrooms.html.

Anand Kaira, “New ACA Rule Bans Anti-Trans Discrimination in Health Care! What Does This Mean for You?,” Transgender Law Center, May 13, 2016, http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/12908.

Lambda Legal, “FAQ: Answers to Common Questions about Transgender Workplace Rights,” http://www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights/transgender/trans-workplace-faq, accessed December 23, 2016.

Michelle Ye Hee Lee, “Does the United States Really Have 5% of the World Population and One Quarter of the World’s Prisoners?,” Washington Post, April 30, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/04/30/does-the-united-states-really-have-hve-percent-of-worlds-population-and-one-quarter-of-the-worlds-prisoners/.

Mitch Kellaway, “DOJ Tells State Prisons: Denying Trans Inmates Hormone Therapy Is Unconstitutional,” Advocate, April 8, 2015, http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/04/08/doj-tells-state-prisons-denying-trans-inmates-hormone-therapy-uncons.

“Federal Survey: 40% of Transgender Prisoners Are Sexually Abused Each Year,” Advancing Transgender Equality, blog post, National Center for Transgender Equality, December 18, 2014, https://transgenderequality.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/federal-survey-40-of-transgender-prisoners-are-sexually-abused-each-year/, accessed December 23, 2016.

National Center for Transgender Equality, “Know Your Rights: Medicare,” http://www.transequality.org/know-your-rights/medicare, accessed December 23, 2016.

Grant et al., National Transgender Discrimination Survey Report on Health and Health Care.

National Center for Transgender Equality, “Transgender People and the Social Security Administration,” June 2013, http://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/kyr/SSAResource_June2013.pdf.

National Center for Transgender Equality, “Understanding the Passport Gender Change Policy,” March 2014, http://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/kyr/passports_2014.pdf.

Brandon Ellington Patterson, “Justice Department Takes Steps to Protect Transgender Prisoners,” Mother Jones, March 25, 2016, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/doj-trans-inmate-guidelines.

Paige St. John, “In a First, California Agrees to Pay for Transgender Inmate’s Sex Reassignment,” Los Angeles Times, August 10, 2015, http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-inmate-transgender-20150810-story.html.

Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (Brooklyn, NY: South End Press, 2011), 138.

Matthew Rosenberg, “Transgender People Will Be Able to Serve Openly in Military,” New York Times, June 30, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/us/transgender-military.html.

MYTH 18: TRANS PEOPLE HAVE EXISTED THROUGHOUT TIME

Genny Beemyn, “US History,” in Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves.

David Cauldwell, “Psychopathia Transsexualis,” Sexology 16 (1949): 274–80.

John D’Emilio, “Capitalism and Gay Identity,” in Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics, ed. Karen V. Hansen and Anita Ilta Garey (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), 131–41.

Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds, Sexual Inversion (London: Wilson and Macmillan, 1897).

Rhys Ernst, We’ve Been Around, documentary series, 2016, http://www.wevebeenaround.com/episodes.

Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996).

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, vol. 1, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage, 1990).

Magnus Hirschfeld, Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress, trans. Michael Lombardi-Nash (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991).

Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis: With Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Forensic Study, trans. and with an introduction by F. S. Klaf (orig., 1921; New York: Arcade, 1965).

Susan Stryker, Transgender History (Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008).

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, The Riddle of “Man-Manly” Love: The Pioneering Work on Male Homosexuality, vol. 1, trans. Michael A. Lombardi-Nash (orig., 1864; Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1994), 197.

David Valentine, Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).

Ralph Werther (as Earl Lind), Autobiography of an Androgyne (orig., 1918; New York: Arno, 1975).

MYTH 19: CERTAIN CULTURES UNIVERSALLY EMBRACE TRANS PEOPLE

Beja, “A Letter to White People Using the Term ‘Two Spirit,’” White Noise Collective, May 18, 2015, http://www.conspireforchange.org/?p=2283.

Dan Bilefsky, “Sworn to Virginity and Living as Men in Albania,” New York Times, June 23, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/world/europe/23iht-virgins.4.13927949.html.

Peter A. Jackson, “Tolerant but Unaccepting: The Myth of a Thai ‘Gay Paradise,’” in Genders & Sexualities in Modern Thailand, ed. Peter A. Jackson and Nerida M. Cook (Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, 1999), 227–42.

Homa Khaleeli, “Hijra: India’s Third Gender Claims Its Place in Law,” Guardian, April 16, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/16/india-third-gender-claims-place-in-law.

Dominique Mosbergen, “Two-Faced Thailand: The Ugly Side of ‘Asia’s Gay Capital,’” Huffington Post, October 20, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lgbt-thailand_us_5616472ee4b0dbb8000d30a6.

Native Out, “Two Spirit 101,” http://nativeout.com/twospirit-rc/two-spirit-101/, accessed December 23, 2016.

Valentine Pasquesoone, “7 Countries Giving Transgender People Fundamental Rights the US Still Won’t,” Identities.Mic, April 9, 2014, https://mic.com/articles/87149/7-countries-giving-transgender-people-fundamental-rights-the-u-s-still-won-t#.vVz2U5M0c.

Preeti Sharma, “Historical Background and Legal Status of Third Gender in Indian Society,” International Journal of Research in Economics & Social Sciences 2, no. 12 (December 2012): 64–71, https://web.archive.org/web/20140203031618/http://www.euroasiapub.org/IJRESS/dec2012/7.pdf.

Will Roscoe, “Who Are the Two Spirits?,” http://www.willsworld.org/twospiritq-a.html, accessed December 9, 2016.

Patrick Winn, “This Gym in Thailand Is Staffed Exclusively by Transgender Men,” Global Post, June 15, 2016, http://www.pri.org/stories/2016–06–15/gym-thailand-staffed-exclusively-transgender-men.

Antonia Young, Women Who Become Men: Albanian Sworn Virgins (Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 2000).

MYTH 20: TRANS PEOPLE AND FEMINISTS DON’T GET ALONG

Emma Allen, “Unpacking Transphobia*,” Radical Women, June 2013, http://www.radicalwomen.org/transphobia.shtml.

Stephan L. Cohen, The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: “An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail” (New York: Routledge, 2007).

Michelle Goldberg, “What Is a Woman? The Dispute Between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism,” New Yorker, August 4, 2014, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/woman-2.

Michelle Goldberg, “The Trans Women Who Say That Trans Women Aren’t Women,” Slate, December 9, 2015, http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/12/gender_critical_trans_women_the_apostates_of_the_trans_rights_movement.single.html.

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

Robin Morgan, Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist (New York: Random House, 1977).

Janice Raymond, Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979).

Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Berkeley: Seal Press, 2007).

Roey Thorpe, “Where Have All the Butches Gone?,” Pride, July 15, 2015, http://www.pride.com/lifestyle/2013/09/05/op-ed-where-have-all-butches-gone.

MYTH 21: THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY IS UNITED

Morgan, Lee, and Spade, “Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got.”

Arthur Bell, Dancing the Gay Lib Blues: A Year in the Homosexual Liberation Movement (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971).

Cohen, The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York.

Martin B. Duberman, Stonewall (New York: Plume, 1994).

The Lesbian Avengers, “About the Lesbian Avengers,” http://www.lesbianavengers.com/about/history.shtml, accessed December 23, 2016.

The Lesbian Avengers, “Trans Activists Storm Stage at Creating Change” Bilerico Project, http://bilerico.lgbtqnation.com/2015/02/trans_activists_storm_stage_at_creating_change.php, accessed December 23, 2016.

Maddie, “Queers for Economic Justice Closes Its Doors Thanks to Lack of Economic Justice,” Autostraddle, February 24, 2014, http://www.autostraddle.com/queers-for-economic-justice-closes-its-doors-thanks-to-lack-of-economic-justice-224520/.

David Marcus, “Exclusive: Gay Man Explains His Petition to Drop the T in LGBT,” Federalist, November 9, 2015, http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/09/exclusive-gay-man-explains-his-petition-to-drop-the-t-in-lgbt/.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, ed., That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2008).