As a result of reading the thread Just published my teen transgender novel^^, I tried reading Luna and Almost Perfect.  (FWIW, I read all of Luna, but couldn't get very far with Almost Perfect because I was getting testosterone poisoning from trying to be in the narrator's head.)

In both of these books, the trans girl is seen only through someone else's eyes, and the story revolves around the difficulties faced by the (cis) narrator, not how the girl feels or what she is going through, which means you get a rather limited and fractured view of her.

Can anyone recommend books (I'm mainly thinking of fiction, but I'm open to non-fiction) which tell the story from the trans girl's/woman's viewpoint, and which (in your opinion, at least) give an accurate picture of what it's like to be trans?

(The thread also mentioned Parrotfish and I am J, but since they're F2M and I'm male-bodied, I assumed I'd feel less of a connection.)

Yeah, there isn't much out there from a youth mtf trans character's perspective.  Hence why I wrote 'The Trans-fer Student' to fill that gap ^^. umm check that out if you haven't =P  Fiction-wise, the only others that come to mind would be webcomics like venus envy and transgirl diaries. 

A couple other books would be,  Being Emily and Run Clarissa, Run.

I thought they were both pretty good.

I loved Luna and Almost Perfect.

Luna sounds good but I don't read enough to suggest anything. I have started to read The Eye of the World. Well the prologue and first chapter. Hopefully I get to reading the rest soon enough.  The last book I read was King's Cell. Super fast and well I don't want to spoil anything but made me cry.

Quote from: Asche on January 18, 2014, 09:31:14 AM
(The thread also mentioned Parrotfish and I am J, but since they're F2M and I'm male-bodied, I assumed I'd feel less of a connection.)

I may be unusual in this, but I find literary and film FtMs every bit as cathartic as MtFs. The details may be different, but the struggle is the same.

As for Luna, I like it largely because of the sister character. It put my little sister's experience of our adolescence in perspective for me. I very strongly recommended it to her and she greatly enjoyed it.

Being Emily, definitely. Seanan McGuire and Lois McMaster Bujold both have trans characters, but they're secondary and not POV.

You might like this : http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Short-Fiction-Transgender-Vanguard-ebook/dp/B00AWF02QA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390105745&sr=8-1&keywords=the+collection+transgender Short stories, but they're all fantastic. And some of the authors have also written novels with trans characters.

Quote from: Jenna Marie on January 18, 2014, 10:30:19 PM
Being Emily, definitely. Seanan McGuire and Lois McMaster Bujold both have trans characters, but they're secondary and not POV.

You might like this : http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Short-Fiction-Transgender-Vanguard-ebook/dp/B00AWF02QA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390105745&sr=8-1&keywords=the+collection+transgender Short stories, but they're all fantastic. And some of the authors have also written novels with trans characters.

Masks of a superhero sounds pretty cool and I just want to read Ride home under a thuderstrom because it sounds like good name for metal album.