Transgender

Recommended reading from

My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely by Kate Bornstein

This book helps you explore and develop your current relationship to gender and map out future goals. Exercises, quizzes, and advice on navigating the gender maze. Read more.

Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Loren Cameron

This book of portraits of female-to-male transsexuals evolved from Loren Cameron's documentation of his own transformation. This beautifully presented book would make an excellent gift. Read more.

True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism - For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals by Mildred L Brown and Chloe Ann Rounsley

An excellent book for friends and loved ones who have questions about sex change and gender reassignment.  Read more.

Miss Vera's Cross-Dress for Success: A Resource Guide for Boys Who Want to Be Girls by Veronica Vera

Miss Vera is the founder and headmistress of Miss Vera's Finishing School For Boys Who Want To Be Girls. Read more.

Transgender Care: Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information, and Personal Accounts by Gianna E Israel, Donald E Tarver and Diane Shaffer

Although this book's target audience is health care professionals, it provides much information that is understandable and useful for anyone considering gender reassignment. Read more.

Other resources

• The Breast Form Store - US online store offering breast forms and breast form adhesives, breast form nipples, bras, gaffs and more.
• Hair Facts - Non-commercial source of information about hair removal. Don't get scammed by sites offering miracles! 
• Mango Products - US site, FTM prostheses for pre-op ftm guys as well as post-op men with metoidioplasty or phalloplasty and chest binders.
• Stockings HQ - stockings, suspender belts and accessories.

Local contacts

• ALSO Foundation
• ATSAQ - Australian Transgender Support Association, Queensland. Run by transgenders for transgenders and provides emotional/moral support for people with Gender Dysphoria, their families and friends.
• The Chameleon Society - a support and social group for Crossdressers, Transsexuals, their partners and other people or businesses involved with the transgender community in Perth, Western Australia.
• FTM (Female-to-Male) Australia
• The Gender Centre, Sydney, Australia
• Gender Identity Support Group - based in Melbourne, Victoria with branches in WA and NSW.
• Men's Australian Network (f2m)
• Parents With Pride - a support, networking, and resources forum for Australian and NZ parents, partners, and prospective parents who identify as being GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans*), and their families.  Maintains a directory of local groups.
• partners-ftma - A list for partners of transsexual and transgendered ("FTM") men in Australia and New Zealand.
• Pride March Victoria
• Seahorse Club of Victoria, Inc - a support and social group for crossdressers, their partners and others within the transgender community.
• Seahorse Society of NSW, Inc - mutual support for Crossdressers, Transvestites and Transgendered people, their partners and families.
• Seahorse Society of Queensland
• South Australian Transsexual Support Group
• Trans*Topia - forum for transgender, transsexual and genderqueer youth
• Transgender Day of Remembrance
• The Transgender Law and Policy Institute
• Transgender Victoria
• TransWest: The Transgender Association of Western Australia Inc.
• GayMatchMaker - Australia & New Zealands premier gay and bisexual dating site.

More on relationships from the Sex and Gender Resource

• Relationships and Lifestyle main page
• Meeting people
• Heterosexuality
• Gay men
• Lesbians
• Bisexuality
• Asexuality
• Polyamory