Publications

Books (Nonfiction)

• A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States: From Margins to Mainstream, SUNY Press, 2025

• Becoming a Visible Man, Second Edition, Vanderbilt University Press, 2020

• Navigating Trans*+ and Complex Gender Identities, Bloomsbury, 2019

• Becoming a Visible Man, Vanderbilt University Press, 2004

Forewords

• Foreword to Transfigurations by Jana Marcus, 2011

Books (Fiction)

• Eyes (short stories) Olive Press, 1976

Anthologies

• “Infinite Possibilities” personal essay in Defiant Moments: Unyielding queer voices. Unstoppable change. 2025

• “The Undefined” personal essay in Defining Moments: Essential queer stories, 2024

• “Recognizing the Existential” personal essay in Surviving Transphobia, 2024

• “Tailspin” personal essay in Covidology: Sharing Life Lessons from Behind the Mask, 2022

• “Evolutionary Changes” personal essay in Love, Castro Street: Reflections of San Francisco, 2007

• “Tenacity” personal essay in TRANScestors: Navigating LGBTQ+ Aging, Illness, and End of Life Decisions; Volume 1: Generations of Hope, 2020

• “Doctor Livingstone, You Presume” personal essay in Glimmerings: Trans Elders Tell Their Stories, 2019

• “The Art and Nature of Gender” personal essay in Unseen Genders: Beyond the Binaries, 2001

• “In the Body of a Man,” personal essay in Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation, 2000

• “FTM⎯An Emerging Voice,” personal essay in Current Concepts in Transgender Identity, 1998

• “Look! No, Don’t!—The Visibility Dilemma for Transsexual Men,” personal essay in Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siècle, 1999

• “Gender Identity and Bisexuality,” co-authored personal essay in Bisexuality: the psychology and politics of an invisible minority, 1996

Reports

• Transgender Rights in the U.S.A. Co-authored report for National Sexuality Resource Center, SFSU, 2008

• Health insurance coverage issues for transgender people in the United States. Co-authored report for the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, 2016

Academic / Research

• “What Do Trans People Expect from Transition and What Do They Encounter Physically,” co-authored chapter in Context, Principles and Practice of TransGynecology 2023

• “Desistance”; “Detransition”; “Tipton, Billy”; and “WPATH” entries in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, 2021

• “History, Societal Attitudes, and Contexts” chapter in Gender Confirmation Surgery: Principles and Techniques for an Emerging Field, 2020

• “What do you want us to call you?” co-authored research note in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 1 2018

• “Employment Issues: A Personal View” essay in The Transgender Handbook: A Guide for Transgender People, Their Families and Professionals (Human Sexuality) 2017

• Legal issues for transgender people: a review of persistent threats, Sexual Health 2017

• If I Follow The Rules, Will You Make Me a Man?: Patterns in Transsexual Validation, University of La Verne Law Review: vol. 34, 2012

• First, Do No Harm: Reducing Disparities for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning Populations in California, The California LGBTQ Reducing Mental Health Disparities Population Report 2012

• Forces in Motion: Law, Medicine, the Media, and the Religious Right in Kantaras v Kantaras (dissertation, Ph.D. in Equalities Law 2011

• Utilization of Health Care Among Female-to-Male Transgender Individuals in the United States, Journal of Homosexuality 2008

• Part of the Package: Ideas of masculinity among male-identified transpeople, Men and Masculinities 2005

• Centering: An Alternative Perspective, Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others 2003

• Introduction to Transgender Equality: A Handbook for Activists and Policy Makers, National Gay & Lesbian Task Force 2000

• Investigation into Discrimination Against Transgendered People, City & County of San Francisco Human Rights Commission 1994

Professional Journals

• Principlism and contemporary ethical considerations for providers of transgender health care, International Journal of Transgender Health 2024

• Unbending the Light: Changing Laws and Policies to Make Transgender Health Visible; Reflections of an Advocate, The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2022

• Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8, International Journal for Transgender Health 2022

• Uterine transplantation and donation in transgender individuals; proof of concept, International Journal of Transgender Health 2021

• Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 3274: Weighing current knowledge and uncertainties in decisions about gender-related treatment for transgender adolescents, International Journal of Transgender Health 2021

• Impact of name change and gender marker correction on identity documents to structural factors and harassment among transgender and gender diverse people in Texas, Sexuality, Gender & Policy 2021

• Comparing self-and provider-collected swabbing for HPV DNA testing in female-to male transgender adult patients: a mixed-methods biobehavioral study protocol, BMC Infectious Diseases 2017

• The Proposed ICD-11 Gender Incongruence of Childhood Diagnosis: A World Professional Association for Transgender Health Membership Survey, Archives of Sexual Behavior 2016

• Transgender: why should we care? (zip), The Lancet 2016

• Transgender people: health at the margins of society (zip), The Lancet 2016

• Medicare May Cover Transsexual Surgery, LGBT Health, Vol. 1, No. 4, Dec. 2014.

• Electronic Medical Records and the Transgender Patient: Recommendations from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health EMR Working Group, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2013

• Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People, Version 7, WPATH 2012

• Getting Real About FTM Surgery, Chrysalis: The Journal of Transgressive Gender Identities 1995

Other Media

• Guide to Organizing for Transgender Health, Transgender Law Center, San Francisco 2008

• The Misapplication of the WPATH Standards of Care in Olympic Policy and Elite Sport, WPATH 2022 Scientific Symposium Poster