#transmasculine books

[transbookoftheday]

Transmasculine Visibility Day

According to nonbinary.wiki, today is Transmasculine Visibility Day!

This day was established to commemorate the ENAHT (Encontro Nacional de Homens Trans, "National Meeting of Trans Men") organized by Ibrat (Instituto Brasileiro de Transmaculinidades, "Brazilian Institute of Transmaculinities"), which took place on 20 February 2015.

Here are some of my favorite transmasc books:

Book Titles:

We Both Laughed In Pleasure by Lou Sullivan

Grit by Silas Denver Melvin

The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee

Deadendia: The Watcher’s Test by Hamish Steele

Calvin by J.R. Ford, Vanessa Ford and Kayla Harren

A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee

Three Kings by Freydís Moon (I no longer recommend this author's books.)

The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

A Million Quiet Revolutions by Robin Gow

The Chromatic Fantasy by H.A.

The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa

[nekhcore]

HEY YOU!

Yeah, you! Are you trans? Do you like reading books? Or watching movies?

Do you like media about trans men/transmasculine characters but don't know where to find it?

That's sooo crazy because I have this little spreadsheet I'm working on where I'm trying to document all media with protagonists/major characters who are FTM or transmasculine.

The spreadsheet currently has 400+ entries spread across the following categories:

Books

Manga

Memoirs and non-fiction

Movies

TV Shows

Graphic novels / Comics

Webcomics

Audio dramas

Books and movies are also sorted by:

Which character is trans (MC, love interest, antagonist, etc)

If the trans character is POC

The trans character's sexuality (Because I saw lots of transhet guys sad about only being able to find gay romances)

If the author/actor is also trans (if we know for sure)

It's free to use, and free to add to as well! Editing permissions are on, and I check on the spreadsheet every now and then to make sure everything is in order and to clean up.

If you know something that isn't on the list, please add it! You don't have to fill in every single column, but fill it to the best of your abilities.

If you don't want to use the big ass long link below, you can also use: bit.ly/FTM-protags

I made this because I want it to be a community resource. So even if you're not a trans guy or transmasculine person, please reblog!

[finnlongman]

Dear Tumblr, I have been desperately wanting to share this news with you since May last year and now I finally can: Gollancz is publishing not one, not two, but THREE of my queer medieval retellings over the next few years! You'll have seen me posting little bits about these books in the past, but I'm so excited to get to share them with you properly.

First up in 2025: The Wolf and His King, a queer retelling of Bisclavret that uses werewolfism as a metaphor to explore chronic pain and illness. It's also very much about gay yearning, fealty, and the mortifying ordeal of being known. Partially in second person and partially in verse, you can see my previous posts about it under the tag the wolf and his king or, for the really early ones, werewolves and gay yearning.

In 2026, I'm bringing you The Animals We Became [working title], which is a queertrans retelling of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, looking at gender, compulsory heterosexuality, and trauma, via nonconsensual shapeshifting. Lotta trans vibes, lotta trauma; I wrote a first draft of this last year because I got carried away writing the sample chapters for my proposal and I'm excited to get deeper into it in edits. Aka t4t shapeshifting and trauma; generally tagged as also owls are transmasculine now.

And finally, in 2027, which is the one I've honestly been most excited to tell you guys about, it's To Run With The Hound [working title]. If you've been following me for a while, you'll know that I wrote a book with this title way back in 2018… well, the one I've sold isn't exactly that book, it's a proposal for how I intend to completely rewrite that book from the ground up, but yes, this is it: my Cú Chulainn novel, my queer medieval Irish book, my (hopefully) magnum opus. Haven't written it yet, but the plan is to use a nonlinear narrative to explore why Táin Bó Cúailnge is a tragedy, featuring a great many feelings about Fer Diad, Láeg, and Cú Chulainn himself.

There's a bit more detail and some FAQs on my website right now, but the most important thing is QUEER MEDIEVAL BOOKS WRITTEN BY SOMEBODY WITH MULTIPLE DEGREES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE. If that sounds like your jam, stick around.

[mxjackparker]

One week left until the Kickstarter ends for Working Guys: A Transmasculine Sex Worker Anthology. Many contributors have been accepted to be paid to write for it, but there are more I want to add and we can only make that happen if the Kickstarter hits its stretch goal! (£7,500)

Cut a bunch of tiny versions of the books out of the business cards I made for advertising the anthology and I'm a little bit obsessed...

Get a real-sized copy and read about transmasculine sex workers here for only £13 (worldwide shipping!)

[gor3sigil]

Ngl I'm starting to get really pissed about ppl using top surgery scars as an aesthetic accessory, but who would rather die than have the character be a trans man.

Like, am I the only one who notices that most of the time, the characters with top surgery scars in queer comics are

- Background characters you'll know nothing about, being there just here to be here and to have ✨️the Scars✨️

- Non-binary but NOT trans men

- Transmasc but NOT trans men

And if the queer comic in question has feminist implications, these characters will be sorted in the exact same category as cis men and be out of this subject.

Can we PLEASE have trans men representation that isn't just to "be here" ?

[beauvandalen]

Meet Kaiser, Elwood and Prince Hal from my spicy gay romantasy novella 'The Prince's Dearest Guards' about a trans Prince who romances his two guards! 😊💕🌸

Art by the wonderful @vita-divata ! 🥰✨

[r3n0-5]

Before or after?

He/Him/Reno pls

[ally-b-cat]

Okay I’m trying to be more active here again!!

Here is my original artwork zine about queer and trans monsters, creatures, and cryptids! It features the works of over 35 artists from around the world (5 continents???) and it clocks in at SIXTY (60!!) pages cover to cover. We made this zine as a way to raise funds for my top surgery so if you want to get a copy, I’ll be launching it Sunday, September 10 below. Shares deeply appreciated. 🖤

[goat-moth-thing]

saying twerf instead of terf is transmasc erasure btw

[hemogoblin46]

i just found this amazing manga that has a transmasc main character!!!

it's great representation and it made me cry, honestly it was a beautiful read and it filled me with so much hope for the future

it's called "After School Mate" by Unno Kuon and is only 2 volumes long

tw for parents not accepting a transition, and a bit of parental abuse

[theyre-gay-because-i-say-so]

Today's LGBT+ Headcanon is;

Edmund Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis-Gay and Transmasculine

Species; Human

Requested by Anon

Status; Alive (Movies) Deceased (Books)

[finnlongman]

About Me, My Books, and My Research (2024 Edition)

Hi, I'm Finn, a writer, medievalist, and all-round nerd. You may know me as the author of The Butterfly Assassin, "that person who wrote the trans Cú Chulainn article", the weird nerd in the Tumblr corner writing excessively long and incomprehensibly niche posts about their research, or something else entirely. I am all of those things! (Well, depending on what the 'something else' is, anyway...)

Currently, I'm a PhD student at the University of Cambridge researching friendship in the late Ulster Cycle (c. 12th-17th centuries). I have an MA in Early and Medieval Irish from University College Cork, and wrote my thesis about Láeg mac Ríangabra, my best beloved. I also have an undergrad degree in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from Cambridge, and wrote my dissertation about queer readings of Táin Bó Cúailnge, including transmasculine readings of Cú Chulainn.

You can find out more about my research on my website, which also includes info about all of my academic publications. This includes the aforementioned "trans Cú Chulainn article", an article about Láeg in the Death of Cú Chulainn, an article about the seven Maines, and a discussion of a conference on Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire from the perspective of my own work on lament and grief. Whenever possible, I try to make my research available Open Access. If you're ever having trouble finding one of my articles, please contact me!

If you want recommendations for books about medieval Irish (or Welsh) literature, this list on my Bookshop page has all my go-to recommendations. If you buy via this link, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you, so this is a great way to support me.

I am also an author, and I write both YA and adult novels. Again, my website is the place to go for all the info and links, but a quick summary:

The Butterfly Assassin trilogy (The Butterfly Assassin, 2022; The Hummingbird Killer, 2023; Moth to a Flame, 2024): YA thrillers about a traumatised teenage assassin who is trying (and failing) to live a normal life in a fictional closed city in Yorkshire. Featuring friendship, street art, Esperanto, zero romance, and a whole lot of murder, as well as increasingly unsubtle commentary on the UK arms industry and the military recruitment of vulnerable teenagers.

The Wolf and His King (coming Autumn 2025 from Gollancz): a queer retelling of 'Bisclavret' by Marie de France which uses werewolfism as a metaphor to explore chronic pain and illness. Also very much about yearning, exile, and the mortifying ordeal of being known.

The Animals We Became (coming 2026 from Gollancz): a queertrans retelling of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi looking at gender, compulsory heterosexuality, and trauma, through the medium of nonconsensual animal transformations.

To Run With The Hound (coming 2027 from Gollancz): my take on the Ulster Cycle, looking at why Táin Bó Cúailnge is a tragedy and what it means to be doomed by the narrative, but not in the way you thought you were. Featuring a lot of feelings about Cú Chulainn, Fer Diad, and Láeg.

You can find out more about my recently-announced medieval retellings in this blog post.

I generally tag personal posts and selfies as “#about the author”; other than that, I think I’m pretty straightforward with my tagging system.

I’m very happy to answer questions about medieval Irish lit, my research, or my books, or just generally to chat. Send questions via asks, chat via DMs, and if you're looking for my articles, you can email me at finn [at] finnlongman [dot] com, which is also the best way to contact me for professional enquiries, whether academic or fiction related.

You can also find me on Bluesky, on Instagram, and on YouTube, where I (infrequently) retell medieval Irish stories for a general audience with lots of sarcasm and hand gestures. Of those, I'm most active on Bluesky.

And finally, if you’ve found my research interesting or just generally want to support me, I have a tip jar and am always immensely grateful when somebody helps me to fund my book-buying habits: http://ko-fi.com/fianaigecht. You can also tip me directly on Tumblr if you like. I’m also a Bookshop affiliate, and you can buy books from my recommendation lists to support me and get some great reads at the same time.

[joe-spookyy]

starting testosterone will have you feeling like seasons 1-3 xander harris

[mxjackparker]

It's the standard at lots of sex worker events not to take pictures, particularly of performers but also of the crowd, because so many of us need to remain anonymous for our safety. That being said, please enjoy this blurry picture of me speaking at the event for Working Guys: A Transmasculine Sex Worker Anthology where I've hidden the faces of anyone visible!

We reached the capacity for the venue (new radical bookshop platforming sex workers, The Scarlett Letters), had some boylesque and strip performances by transmasc sex workers, and got to hear readings from contributors to the book. I can't express enough how grateful I am that people have shown up for this and that you care about transmasculine people and sex workers enough to support with money and time!

If you're interested in checking out the book, including 21 contributors from all over the world, you can find links to where to get a copy here. E-book copies are only £5 (roughly $6.50) here and sales right now help me to have to sell sex less whilst I'm sick.

[unclevladscorner]

Rec Me Your books*

I really want to see transmasculine and non binary writers really go the distance and work to support one another in new ways, in light of one person's bad behavior.

We deserve to build a better community- one in which we feel safe and can hold people accountable for thier actions.

I want to start really trying to connect with people here, now that I don't have to worry about my bully as much as I did before. If you are transgender and/or non binary, what are you working on? What books and/or stories have you published? I want to know!

My only big CW's are graphic gore and graphic non-c0nsent. (Graphic gore I can read, I just like to be prepared.)

I want us all to step up and build something better now.

[beauvandalen]

Hi writeblr! 🌸

I write LGBTQ+ SFF Adult fiction, my latest releases feature M/M romances and trans masc MCs!🌈✨

If that sounds like your cup of tea, my books are out now! Some are free-to-read, too! ❤