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• Speaking as a Woman (third edition; Lionville, PA: Creative Design Services, c2005), by Alison Laing (PDF at Digital Transgender Archive)
• Speaking as a Woman: A Guide for Those Who Desire to Communicate in a More Feminine Manner (first edition; King of Prussia, PA: Creative Design Services, c1989), by Alison Laing (PDF at Digital Transgender Archive)

• A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women, and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks (San Francisco: Silver Sprocket, c2021), by TransFighters, Oakland (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Self-Made Woman: A Memoir (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017), by Denise Chanterelle DuBois (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Self-Made Woman: A Memoir (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017), by Denise Chanterelle DuBois (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• A Short History of Trans Misogyny (London and Brooklyn: Verso, c2024), by Jules Gill-Peterson (Epub at OAPEN)

• A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women, and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks (San Francisco: Silver Sprocket, c2021), by TransFighters, Oakland (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex and Gender in the 21st Century (London and New York: Routledge, c2022), by Edward Schiappa
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Taylor and Francis
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (London: University of London, School of Advanced Study, Human Rights Consortium, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2018), ed. by Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (London: University of London, School of Advanced Study, Human Rights Consortium, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2018), ed. by Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2020), by Alex Bakker, Rainer Herrn, Michael Thomas Taylor, and Annette F. Timm (PDF files at Calgary)

• Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2020), by Alex Bakker, Rainer Herrn, Michael Thomas Taylor, and Annette F. Timm (PDF files at Calgary)

• A Safe Girl to Love (New York: Topside Press, c2014), by Casey Plett (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Stone Butch Blues (20th anniversary author edition, c2014), by Leslie Feinberg (PDF with commentary at lesliefeinberg.net)

• Orlando (1928), by Virginia Woolf
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity (London and New York: Routledge, c2010), ed. by Sally Hines and Tam Sanger (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Normed Children: Effects of Gender and Sex Related Normativity on Childhood and Adolescence (Bielefeld: Transcript, c2018), ed. by Erik Schneider and Christel Baltes-Löhr (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex and Gender in the 21st Century (London and New York: Routledge, c2022), by Edward Schiappa
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Taylor and Francis
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Transgender Rights Toolkit: A Legal Guide for Trans People and Their Advocates (c2016), by Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund (PDF with commentary at lambdalegal.org)

• Transgender Rights Toolkit: A Legal Guide for Trans People and Their Advocates (c2016), by Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund (PDF with commentary at lambdalegal.org)

• Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People (7th edition, in multiple languages; c2012), by World Professional Association for Transgender Health (PDF with commentary at wpath.org)

• Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2020), by Alex Bakker, Rainer Herrn, Michael Thomas Taylor, and Annette F. Timm (PDF files at Calgary)

• The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding (Washington: National Academies Press, c2011), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People (7th edition, in multiple languages; c2012), by World Professional Association for Transgender Health (PDF with commentary at wpath.org)

• The Empty Closet (full serial archives)

• Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2020), by Alex Bakker, Rainer Herrn, Michael Thomas Taylor, and Annette F. Timm (PDF files at Calgary)

• The Pride Guide: An Interactive Workbook for Exploring Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History and Places (Washington: National Park Service, 2019)
  • PDF at govinfo.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2 volumes; Washington: National Park Foundation, c2016), ed. by Megan E. Springate
  • PDF files at fdlp.gov
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Best Practices: A Guide to Restroom Access for Transgender Workers (2015), by United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  • PDF at govinfo.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Transsexual Phenomenon (originally published 1966), by Harry Benjamin (HTML at archive.org)

• QNotes (partial serial archives)

• QNotes (partial serial archives)

• Out in the Mountains (1986-2007) (full serial archives)

• Out in the Mountains (1986-2007) (full serial archives)

• The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto (version 4.0; ca. 2000), by Allucquère Rosanne Stone (PDF at sandystone.com)

• Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Ina Linge (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (reissued with a new introduction; New York: Teachers College Press, 1994), by Janice G. Raymond (PDF at janiceraymond.com)

• Polare: A Magazine for People With Gender Issues (1993-present) (full serial archives)

• Polare: A Magazine for People With Gender Issues (1993-present) (full serial archives)

• Transsexualism: A Study of Forty-Three Cases (originally published 1967), by Jan Wålinder (HTML at archive.org)

• Renaissance News (1987-1995) (partial serial archives)

• An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, by Judith Drake, contrib. by James Drake and Mary Astell (multiple editions)
• Sir Thomas Elyot's The Defence of Good Women (Oxford, OH: Anchor Press, 1940), by Thomas Elyot, ed. by Edwin J. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divinity of Woman: Her Superiority Over Man (third edition revised; Los Angeles: Filipino Federation of America, 1927), by Hilario Camino Moncado (page images at HathiTrust)
• Can Woman Regenerate Society? (London: John W. Parker, 1844), by Anne Richelieu Lamb Dryden (page images at Google)
• Do They Really Respect Us? and Other Essays (San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1912), by Margaret Collier Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Epistles on Women, by Lucy Aikin (HTML at Michigan)
• Female Pre-Eminence: or, The Dignity and Excellency of That Sex, Above the Male (in Latin and English, based on editions of 1529 and 1670), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, trans. by Henry Care (HTML at esotericarchives.com)
• The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918), by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Nature of Woman (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1913), by J. Lionel Tayler, contrib. by William Caldwell Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Powder-Puff: A Ladies' Breviary (New York: Duffield and Co., 1910), by Franz Blei (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World; To Which Are Added Rules for Determining the Precise Figure, the Degree of Beauty, the Habits, and the Age of Women, Notwithstanding the Aids and Disguise of Dress (Boston: T. Abbot, 1841) (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Sum of Feminine Achievement: A Critical and Analytical Study of Woman's Contribution to the Intellectual Progress of the World (Boston: The Stratford Company, 1917), by W. A. Newman Dorland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman in All Ages and in All Countries (10 volumes; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, ca. 1907-1908), contrib. by Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Edward B. Pollard, Pierce Butler, John R. Effinger, Hugo P. Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, and John Rouse Larus (Gutenberg texts and illustrated HTML)
• Women and Other Women: Essays in Wisdom (New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by Hildegarde Hawthorne
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Essays (with a biographical sketch of the author; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1863), by Henry Thomas Buckle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men, Women and Emotions (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1899), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Man and Woman in Christ: An Examination of the Roles of Men and Women in Light of Scripture and the Social Sciences, by Stephen B. Clark (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.