This month’s Out magazine is a special on trans issues. As part of that, they included a rather craptacular list of must-read trans books. I realize Out is a fashion magazine, but jeebus it’s a bizarre list. There’s a few good choices, a few books I’d never heard of that look like they may be interesting but I doubt are essential reading, and a few asinine choices (“Myra Breckinridge”).

As Diana said, yet another clear indicator that the real and perceived ”trans” communities are light years apart.

Fortunately Helen Boyd has posted her own list of essential trans reading with capsule reviews on her site. Modestly, Helen omits her books — “My Husband Betty” and “She’s Not The Man I Married” — which are definitely on my must-read list. (Sadly, both SNTMIM and Julia Serano’s excellent “Whipping Girl” were both overlooked for this year’s Lambda Literary Foundation’s list of finalists in the transgender category. One wonders whether the Lammies had any trans people on the review committee.)