Fiction: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, a great classic about an ambassador man going to a genderless society where the people only have sexual characteristics for part of the time.
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Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
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Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise Your KidsFree of Gender Stereotypes
Okay yes its a parenting book, but stay with me. It actually is a really interesting book examining gender stereotypes and how they are perpetuated, along with scientific studies about gender and sex.
Edit to add: Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
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Offbeat suggestion: “The Beauty” by Aliya Whiteley is a horror novella about gender, sex, and mushroom monsters. I’ve found that people’s reactions to it are REALLY different based on their gender, how they feel about gender, and their relationship to their bodies. One person finds it kind of goth-cute, another finds it nauseating, someone else feels vindicated.
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Fiction: A transgender friend of mine recommended [Detransition, Baby](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48890225).
Fiction: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, a great classic about an ambassador man going to a genderless society where the people only have sexual characteristics for part of the time.
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise Your KidsFree of Gender Stereotypes
Okay yes its a parenting book, but stay with me. It actually is a really interesting book examining gender stereotypes and how they are perpetuated, along with scientific studies about gender and sex.
Edit to add: Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
Offbeat suggestion: “The Beauty” by Aliya Whiteley is a horror novella about gender, sex, and mushroom monsters. I’ve found that people’s reactions to it are REALLY different based on their gender, how they feel about gender, and their relationship to their bodies. One person finds it kind of goth-cute, another finds it nauseating, someone else feels vindicated.
TW for sexual assault though.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Equal Rites, Pratchett