1931 ELVENES, Lili Ilse (Lili Elbe) (1882 – 1931)
Fra Mand til Kvinde: Lili Elbes Bekendelser.
Posthumously published autobiography of one of the first transgender women, known prior to the sex change as the Danish painter Einar Wegener. Translated into English as Man into woman: An authentic record of a change…
GMN 11447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13646
1931 MERLET, Janine
Vénus et Mercure.
"Chapter by Pierre Najac, “L’Institut de science sexuelle à Berlin”; includes numerous illustrations from the archives of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, as well as Najac’s eyewitness descr…
GMN 13378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15649
1938 MCINDOE, Sir Archibald Hector (1900 – 1960); BANISTER, John Bright (1880 – 1938)
An operation for the cure of congenital absence of the vagina.
Mclndoe’s operation for the construction of an artificial vagina.
GMN 6133 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7657
1946 DILLON, Michael (1915 – 1962)
Self: A study in ethics and endocrinology.
An early work on transexualism. Dillon was the first trans man to undergo phalloplasty. Between 1946 and 1949 Dillon underent at least 13 surgeries performed by Harold Gillies for sex-reassignment surgery.
GMN 13085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15337
1958 SAVITSCH, Eugene de (1902 – 1959)
Homosexuality, transvestism and change of sex.
Probably the first publication to illustrate the stages of surgical transition from male to female, and to discuss the risks then involved in the operations. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 14170 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16485
1966 BENJAMIN, Harry (1885 – 1986)
The transsexual phenomenon.
"A scientific report on transsexualism and sex conversion in the human male and female."
GMN 11373 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13572
1967 JORGENSEN, Christine (1926 – 1989)
Christine Jorgensen: A personal autobiography.
GMN 14166 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16481
1969 GREEN, Richard (1936 – 2019); MONEY, John William (1921 – 2006)
Transexualism and sex reassignment. Edited by Richard Green and John Money.
Probably the first scientific book on transsexuality issued by a university press. "Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment had its origins in the advisory board meetings of the Henry Benjamin Foundation. In the earliest …
GMN 11413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13612
1974 MORRIS, Jan (1926 – )
Conundrum.
Morris underwent male to female sex change surgery by Georges Burou in Casablanca during the 1960s. As a much-published writer, her book was one of the first to draw wide attention to the phenomenon. New edition, with…
GMN 11356 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13554
1974 LAUB, Donald R. (1935 – ); NOE, Joel M.; BIRDSELL, Dale
The surgical construction of male genitalia for the female-to-male transsexual.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Noe, Birdsell, Laub.
GMN 11369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13568
1974 LAUB, Donald R. (1935 – ); GANDY, Patrick; BUROU, Georges (1910 – 1987)
Proceedings of the second Interdisciplinary Symposium on Gender Dysphoria Syndrome. Edited by Donald R. Laub and Patrick Gandy.
A symposium held at the Stanford University School of Medicine, February 2-4, 1973. It is probable that this is the first separate publication on the medical and surgical aspects of transsexuality -- male to female an…
GMN 11371 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13570
1992 PFÄFFLIN, Friedemann (1945 – ); JUNGE, Astrid
Sex reassignment. Thirty years of international follow-up studies after sex reassignment surgery: A comprehensive review, 1961-1991. Translated from German into American English by Roberta B. Jacobson and Alf B. Meier.)
Includes an extensive bibliography of printed and online sources. https://web.archive.org/web/20070520063824/http://www.symposion.com/ijt/pfaefflin/1000.htm
GMN 14171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16486
1995 HAUSMAN, Bernice L.
Changing sex: Transsexualism, technology, and the idea of gender.
GMN 13292 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15558
2004 MEYEROWITZ, Joanne Jay (1954 – )
How sex changed: A history of transsexuality in the United States.
GMN 8070 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10246
2007 KENNEDY, Pagan (1963 – )
The first man-made man: The story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution.
A biography of Michael Dillon, who in the 1940s was the first successful case of female-to-male gender reassignment surgery--operations done by Sir Harold Gilles. Dillon established himself as a medical student. The b…
GMN 11361 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13560
2007 BARRETT, James
Transsexual and other disorders of gender identity: A practical guide to management. Edited by James Barrett.
GMN 11370 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13569
2014 ERICKSON-SCHROTH, Laura
Trans bodies, Trans selves: A resource for the transgender community. Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth.
GMN 11359 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13557
