Trans Characters in Novels
Posted by helenboyd on 04/9/10 12:48 AM
http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2010/04/09/trans-characters-in-novels/ (http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2010/04/09/trans-characters-in-novels/)
Cheryl Morgan asks Is There, or Should There Be, Such a Thing as Trans Lit? It's a good question. She leaves out a bunch of books, like Feinberg's Drag King Dreams and Luna, written for young adults and winner of the prestigious National Book Award. Ursula LeGuin's entire civilization in The Left Hand of Darkness is, effectively, trans, in a third gender, gender-fluid, gender-neutral sort of way. Neil Gaiman has had good portrayals of trans people in his books, most notably in Sandman. There's Trans-Sister Radio, which came out a few years back.
I'd love to hear more, if you can think of others – novels in which trans people are characters – so have at it.
As it happens, I wrote one. It's a suspense tale called She's My Dad, and the title character is an English professor at a fictional college in Virginia:
http://www.amazon.com/Shes-My-Dad-Iolanthe-Woulff/dp/1432743775/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270823898&sr=8-3 (http://www.amazon.com/Shes-My-Dad-Iolanthe-Woulff/dp/1432743775/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270823898&sr=8-3)
~Lannie~