Troonlit - Books by Men

[Law]

This is a thread for discussion and documentation of troonlit - fiction books by troons. Post funny excerpts, disturbing analysis, pozzed publishers, and helpful reviews.

 

[Gilgachad]

In The Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life is an embarrassing-as-fuck autobiography written by (((Amy Schneider))) (deadname: Thomas Ezekiel Schneider), the highest-earning "female" contestant in the history of the game show Jeopardy, proving that men are indeed smarter than women. 95% of the book is just Schneider jerking off his own ego by complimenting himself on how wicked smart he is to the point that it's very condescending and obnoxious, or talking about his very extensive history with online pornography and hard drugs. Seriously, consuming pornography seems to this guy's entire life story as he constantly talks about watching it all the time and explains how it shaped him into the beautiful transwxmxn he is today (see picture on right; he literally looks like a troonjak).

Schneider was raised by roman catholic parents, however his life would completely flip around one time he was browsing porn during one of his regular goon seshes and stumbled upon--say it with me--SISSY HYPNO PORN! Just FYI, this guys backstory is about as stereotypical as a tranny's backstory could get. He remained a kissless, hopeless virgin until his mid-twenties in the December of 2000 (yes, he remembers the exact time frame) he lost his virginity to some random prostitute he stumbled upon, however remarks it felt oddly nonsexual and was unsatisfied, and although he doesn't clearly state why, it's clear that it's because real sex just wasn't like the pornos. Although he doesn't consider this actually losing his virginity "as far as [he's] concerned" for some reason, probably out of shame which will become ironic later. He later did marry a woman a few years later, however they eventually divorced because she was too humilated to have a husband who crossdressed all the time and frequented the "Sissy Nights" at local fetish coffeshops.

He also details his abuse of drugs, including hard drugs such as cocaine. Although he sees it as a good thing because it helped expand and diversify his horizons in relations to conversation, television, writing and, of course, porn. I can't be bothered to reread the book over to look for quotes, but feel free to skim for yourselves. There's some real gems in here that highlight the typical transexual experience; he even talks about being harrassed by TERFs on Twitter. He ends off with a morale about how sexual repression is the biggest ill to society and how much better it would be if deviants like him could feel comfortable to publicly exhibit their sick fetishes to everyone without question. Wholesome.

 

[stupid frog]

Presenting the obligatory: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/snakes-reads-a-terrible-book-manhunt-by-gretchen-felker-martin.117140/

 

[Less Than Zero]

Stone Butch Blues by the Upstate legend Leslie Feinberg.
But Less Than Zero, isn't that a woman?

Ze didn't live by the male/female binary. Something ze comments on a lot, in fact, is the implicit benefits of "passing" as male, socially or physically, as you'll see in the plot summary. Hir work is widely regarded for advancing Marxist Transgender Liberation, something that ze personally embodied in hir life.

Hir book focuses on LGBT issues, rape, Stonewall-esque riots, lesbian butches and femmes, rape, houselessness, binders, stone, rape, unions, and Poonin' out.

Spoiler: Plot Summary from Wikipedia

The narrative of Stone Butch Blues follows the life of Jess Goldberg, who grows up in a working-class area of Buffalo, New York in the 1940s. Her parents, frustrated with Jess's gender nonconformity, eventually institutionalize Jess in a psychiatric ward for three weeks. When she reaches puberty and feels the weight of gendered difference, Jess learns of a gay bar from a coworker. There, she meets drag queens, butches, and femmes. Butch Al and Jacqueline take Jess in and teach her about lesbian roles and culture. After a police raid, the bar closes and Jess loses touch with Butch Al and Jacqueline. At school, football players harass Jess, tackling and gang-raping her. Traumatized, she drops out of school the next day, packing her bags and running away from home to a lesbian bar, where a butch, Toni, offers to let Jess sleep on her couch.

Jess finds her place in the lesbian community of Buffalo while the cops continue to raid gay bars. Jess is arrested, beaten, and raped by them. In a traumatized state, Jess and Toni fight, and Jess is left houseless again. She is taken in by Angie, a femme sex worker. The two have an intimate conversation and then sex. When Angie attempts to touch her, Jess cringes. Angie identifies Jess as a stone butch, assuring Jess that there is nothing wrong with being stone.

Jess gets a factory job and gets involved in union organization, but is alienated by male coworkers. One man intentionally jams Jess's machine, severely injuring Jess and leaving her unemployed. At her next job, Jess meets Theresa. Theresa is fired after opposing her boss for sexually harassing her, and Jess begins to date her. With Theresa, Jess matures, learns to take responsibility in relationships, and softens her stony exterior. Jess proposes, and they are unofficially wedded at the bar, a drag queen leading the procession.

Cops continue raids and retaliation increases, the crowd inspired by the Stonewall riots. Jess and the others are arrested, beaten, and raped by the police. Theresa, who takes care of Jess after raids, attends feminist meetings, where others treat her love of butches as a betrayal of the feminist cause. Meanwhile, Jess talks at length about her gender confusion, feeling like neither man nor woman. Theresa is confused and encourages Jess to forget about it, but the two later argue over Jess's gender. Jess learns about, and decides to pursue, medical transition. Theresa disapproves, and they break up.

Jess starts taking testosterone, gets chest reconstruction surgery, and begins to pass as a male. While relieved to be safer in public, Jess has complex feelings about her loss of visibility as a lesbian. She asks out Annie, a barista, and they have a date at Annie's house. Before they have sex, Jess slips into her strap-on without Annie noticing, effectively passing as male through their encounter. The next day, Jess accompanies Annie to a wedding, where Annie makes several homophobic comments. Horrified by Annie's use of slurs and insinuation that gay people are sex offenders, Jess leaves.

After years of passing as a man, Jess stops taking testosterone. She no longer passes as male and feels continually more comfortable in her gender nonconforming body. After encountering Theresa and her new partner at a grocery store, Jess decides she needs to leave Buffalo and moves to New York City. Jess forms a close friendship with her neighbor Ruth, a trans woman. While taking the subway, Jess is attacked and seriously injured by a group of teenage boys. Ruth nurses Jess back to health and they confess their love for each other on Christmas Eve.

Ruth and Jess embark on a road trip to Upstate New York to visit Ruth's family. While there, Jess visits Buffalo and reconnects with friends from her past. After returning to New York City, Jess witnesses a queer rights demonstration and decides to speak about her experiences. As the novel closes, Jess feels her life coming full circle, and she is filled with hope for her future with Ruth.

Click here for your free PDF copy. I learned about this figure when there was a "performative masc lesbian" competition trend at colleges. I still think it's fitting for this thread

 

[Surfin Terf]

Jess starts taking testosterone, gets chest reconstruction surgery, and begins to pass as a male. While relieved to be safer in public, Jess has complex feelings about her loss of visibility as a lesbian. She asks out Annie, a barista, and they have a date at Annie's house. Before they have sex, Jess slips into her strap-on without Annie noticing, effectively passing as male through their encounter. The next day, Jess accompanies Annie to a wedding, where Annie makes several homophobic comments. Horrified by Annie's use of slurs and insinuation that gay people are sex offenders, Jess leaves.

Her horror at Annie’s insinuation might hold more weight if she hadn’t raped her the night before.

I’d heard of this book before, and I knew about Feinberg being a gender special, but I hadn’t realized how much trans stuff there was in the actual book.

 

[The Skeksis Emperor]

Jess forms a close friendship with her neighbor Ruth, a trans woman. While taking the subway, Jess is attacked and seriously injured by a group of teenage boys. Ruth nurses Jess back to health and they confess their love for each other on Christmas Eve.

So in this ebin lesbian classic the stone butch lesbian ends up with a dude? Maybe the ladies on Ovarit/Vexxed who were crazy about this book didn't read until the end. Honestly, that book sounds like a miserable slog.

 

[Der weiße Teufel]

First off, I love this idea for a thread, unfortunately I have to use my limited free time to read the books I actually want to read instead of torturing myself through tranny lit. However, I keep stumbling over tranny books whenever I browse Goodreads for new releases and I always check out the summary and worst reviews for the lulz.

There is one book I did read that might count: Eddie Izzard's autobiography "Believe Me". I hadn't fully peaked yet and when it was released, he was not a full-on tranny yet. I really used to like his old stand-up.
I remember there were some interesting parts, but there were also the typical tranny red flags, which I only came to realize afterwards.
I think I posted these quotes somewhere in another thread before, but it's always nice to remind people that he is nothing but a typical AGP lesbian chaser. The help group was something sexuality related, so he should not have been there in the first place. I don't remember what year that took place, but other crossdressers there probably would have been homosexuals.

Wearing his step-mom's underwear (calling it "clothes").

Changing clothing in a public women's restroom and then feeling "intimidated" by teenage girls rightfully questioning him.




Next one, I once accidentally read something by a tranny author because I don't always check out every author's bio beforehand: "All the Birds in the Sky" by Charlie Jane Anders. (Apparently he was a writer on some SF pop culture website something or other, never heard of him.) This was 10 years ago and trannies were not THAT in your face yet, so the book did not contain any obvious tranny nonsense, the writing and plot were just shit. Here is the stunning and brave lady:

What I would like to highlight here is his foray into YA later in 2021: "Victories Greater than Death".

The summary is uninteresting, because it doesn't mention anything what actually makes this troon slop. But the reviews will tell you:

It felt like a giant anti-bullying ad (making the Elza/Tina relationship even stranger), where the teens were just saying very unrealistic things about how bullying was bad, unprompted.

Diversity: Pronoun usage, Non binary side character, Plus Size side character, Indian side character, Asian side character, Brazilian transgender side character, Black gay side character, Anxiety rep side character, F/f romance

oh my god this book was so bad. DNF- i tried. it was just so 2000s juvenile teenager written by a middle aged adult. plus, a monster described as something out of, and i quote, “fortnite”?! also, if a whole ass monster was trying to kill me i don’t think the first thing it would say was what it’s pronouns was. pls don’t read this. best advice is books that have a persons face on them r always so bad i should’ve listened to the warning signs man

The author also tries to be inclusive in the most hamfisted way by having every single character introduce themselves by stating their name and their pronouns rather than seamlessly working it into the narrative. Why have an introduction like, "My name is Blubbleblorp and my pronoun is he" when you could just say "'My name is Blubbleblorp,' he said." Just tell us the pronoun normally, or if you actually want some brief conflict, have someone correct another character if they use the wrong pronoun. I'm all for inclusiveness, but at least make it realistic and not seem like it was written from the perspective of a right-wing nutjob who thinks this is how "woke" people talk.

From the reviews I get the impression that one half of this lesbian teen romance is actually a troon, but who knows! Conclusion: Grown-ass men in party city wigs should not be allowed to write YA and especially not about "lesbians".



Other recent releases by tranny authors doing what they can do best: writing creepy troon shit.

"Stag Dance" by Torrey Peters.

In this collection of one novel and three stories, Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing. In Stag Dance, the titular novel, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging outfit plan a dance that some of them will volunteer to attend as women. When the broadest, strongest, plainest of the axmen announces his intention to dance as a woman, he finds himself caught in a strange rivalry with a pretty young jack, provoking a cascade of obsession, jealousy, and betrayal that will culminate on the big night in an astonishing vision of gender and transition. Three startling stories surround Stag Dance: “Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones” imagines a gender apocalypse brought about by an unstable ex. In “The Chaser,” a secret romance between roommates at a Quaker boarding school brings out intrigue and cruelty. In the last story, “The Masker,” a party weekend on the Las Vegas strip turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between two guides: a handsome mystery man who objectifies her in thrilling ways, or a cynical veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.

New work from the troon who wrote "Detransition, Baby" (almost as bad as anything "Gretchen" has written). Honestly, already the summary gives me an aneurysm, who the fuck wants to read this?

For some reason (well, the website is pozzed) it is highly rated on Goodreads. But the 1 or 2 star reviews are always quite enlightening:

Time and again Peters, in an effort to display character insecurities, will describe typically masculine/ethnic traits as inherently ugly without ever deconstructing or challenging these notions. Lisen in Stag Dance seems straight out of the omegaverse to the point where I was googling “Torrey Peters ao3” for some semblance of an explanation outside of her very obvious biases.

This book basically argues that all trans women hate each other, transness is inherently sexual, and that trans women’s existence is a danger to all cis people
A horrible book that’s just erotica touting as trans liberation with terrible characters, writing, and plot
News flash : just because your characters do terrible, unforgivable things does not mean that they have depth

Spoilers : my favourite part is when this cis guy is being psychologically tormented by a trans woman and then he tries to rape her but “it would’ve been okay if you just said you loved me ”

I have no idea what I just read. Didn’t like the format of the book with short stories and one longer story? Didn’t like the animal cruelty. Didn’t like all the stereotypes or the attempt to be edgy. Just didn’t like the style of writing or any of the characters.

Just a reading of the author’s worldview that you can enjoy the worst of both sexes if you so choose.

"Hot Girls with Balls" by Benedict Nguyen. I'm including a picture of the author because lul. Also he apparently couldn't even be bothered to get a girl's name.

In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams’ first rematch in a year Six is 6’7”, scheming to rejoin the starting lineup, and barely checks her phone. Green is 6’1”, always building her brand, and secretly jealous of her more famous girlfriend. Together, they’re going where no Asian American trans woman has gone before: the men’s pro indoor volleyball league. Our hot girls with balls just thought playing with the boys would spare them some controversy . . . haha. Besides playing for rival teams, they’re also lovers tending to their relationship between away games, time zones, and their weekly Instagraph live show. Soon, they’ll reunite for the championship tournament, the first to accommodate in-person fans since the COVIS pandemic struck the world a year ago. Just as they enter an airtight bro bubble of the world’s best, they’re faced with a public crisis that necessitates an indisputably humiliating task: make a public statement online. Can Green stock up enough clout for her post-ball future? Can Six girlboss her team’s seniority politics? Can they both take a timeout to just grieve? Their rabid fans and horny haters await their next move. We’re all just desperate for a whiff of the feminine sweaty energy that makes that ball thwack with such spectacular force.

Hahaha satire about trannies in women's sports, get it guise???? Soooo funny!!!

this had so much promise but oh my god this was just COVID era liberal twitter in a book and it made me dizzy to read, what the fuck just happened

("so much promise" bitch? where?)

Also, the dialogue here is, hands down, the worst, phoniest, nonsense I've ever read in my life. These characters speak almost exclusively in exclamation marks. It's feels forced, canned, and utterly ridiculous, almost like a modern spin on the vapid Valley Girl trope, but accidentally instead of intentionally.

Exaggerating speech in this way, combined with the laziness of the satire and plot plus how surface-level a lot of the commentary is just all the more makes this feel like mockery instead of wokeness.

No, seriously, and I am not kidding - regardless the author's intentions, it reads more like a bad parody written by a right-winger of a strawman of a trans person practically living on Twitter, then a quarter into the book they quit being a bigot, but then decided to finish the book anyway.

Overall, the language these characters constantly used was unnecessarily and uncomfortably vulgar at all times. Everything was highly sexualized and aggressively so.

Books and publishing have gone so bad, whenever I check a list of new and upcoming releases (I like literary fiction and science fiction) half of the summaries start with "in this queer whatever", so you already know it's gonna be trash.

 

[Kerry Benton]

I read “Tranny” by Laura Jane Grace of Against Me, and this excerpt from the end really stuck with me:

Spoiler: Spoiler

"I am attracted to men, not women." Heather said she had realized this. She told me I'd lost my swagger, and that I was a shell of the person I used to be. I was no longer the cocky, loudmouth punk she met on that Alkaline Trio tour. I looked in the mirror hoping to see the woman she claimed to see staring back, but only saw the disgusting tranny I'd always seen before. How could anyone love someone so full of self-hate? How could anyone else see me as a woman if I couldn't see myself as one?


The East Coast solo tour I had booked before my breakdown was the last thing I wanted to do that August.


For most in attendance, it was the first time seeing me since my coming out.


It was nerve-wracking to stand on stage alone, with nothing but a microphone and an acoustic guitar, all eyes on me. Without the volume of a band behind me, I could distinctly hear people in the crowd shouting words of support. But every compliment I heard "You look beautiful!" or "I love you!"-just made me feel like more of a fraud.


After a show at the Bowery Ballroom in New York, a fan found me outside smoking a cigarette. They told me that I was their hero, and that I gave them the courage to come out and start HRT. But I didn't feel like anyone's hero. I still wasn't taking the hormones. I wanted to scream some sense into them and beg them not to do it. "Look at me! Hormones ruined my fucking life and will ruin yours, too! Are you really willing to risk everything and everyone you love for this?" But instead, I just smiled and posed for a picture.


I was a wreck through the whole week. After blurring my way through each show, I went back to my room and weighed the positives and
negatives of stopping my transition, stuck in limbo between wanting to continue as a woman and wanting to go back to being a man. Backing away from my transition meant career death; that I knew. I'd already made this grand announcement that evoked my fans' support. I couldn't just ask them all to forget about it. The trans community would full-on excommunicate me as well. I'd seen it happen to other trans people who decided to de-transition. It was a crime akin to a punk band selling out to a major label. I fantasized about running away and starting a new life somewhere. I could shave my head and have surgery to remove my breasts, get a job as an auto mechanic, and no one would even know who I was. That wouldn't be so bad, I thought. When this indecision kept me awake, I took as many Ambien as I could, washing them down with a bottle of vodka. But try as I might, I kept waking up.


When the tour ended, I returned home to Chicago, where I was a stranger in a strange city. Establishing yourself in a new area when you're transitioning is difficult. Although I wasn't taking HRT at the moment, I needed to find a new psychotherapist, a new endocrinologist, a new laser hair removal place, a new everything.


Eventually I found a therapist specializing in gender who was more helpful than anyone I'd talked to in Florida. She told me that it was good that I'd hit rock bottom, that I'd walked right up to the edge and turned back around. It was okay to have thoughts of suicide, she said, as long as it gave me the proper perspective that while I was living in the present, I should be living to the fullest.

I was surprised that he said the quiet part loud and knew he would be ostracized if he detransitioned.


“Laura” in 2025

 

[Stan]

I read “The Worm and His Kings” by Hailey Piper. It’s about a homeless black tranny whose gf mysteriously disappears at the hands of a lovecraftian cult. The a-story was ok but there’s subplots where Monique (our brave WOC tranny heroine) recalls her Sara’s doctor trying to steal one of her kidneys while she was out and also the plot instability of how is Monique homeless but also getting SRS was this much of a priority? Very little about Monique’s backstory makes sense to me.

There’s also Exquisite Corpse, a novel that’s basically Jeffrey Dahmer x Dennis Nilsen fanfiction with the names changed (Dahmer is now “Jay Byrnes”, rich and lives in a townhouse in NOLA that functions as his cannibal dungeon palace, Nilsen is now “Andrew Compton” HIV positive and recently escaped from prison in the UK, the story is set in NOLA because the author lives there.) The main conflict is between Tran (yes I think it’s a joke), a Vietnamese gay boy who gets kicked out of his house, the Dahmer analogue who has a crush on him/wants to eat him, and the Nilsen analog who wants to partake in the gay cannibal stuff. Then on the side of truth and righteousness we have Tran’s HIV+ boyfriend named Luke, who’s like 15 years his senior and runs a pirate radio station where he screams into the wind about how bad it sucks to have AIDS and be dying. There’s an amusing subplot where one of Luke’s radio friends reveals he’s got HIV, asks Luke to shoot him and toss his body in the bayou to be eaten by gators and Luke actually complies. There’s also a subplot where Jay and Andrew murder a homeless kid and try to eat him only to find he’s ridden with cancer and I guess that makes him unfit to eat. The author later came out as FtM (new name: William Joseph Martin) and this work exemplifies a bunch of FtM and Fujoshi writing tropes (gay love triangle, romanticizing true crime, esp having a crush on Jeff Dahmer specifically.) I found this novel much more enjoyable (in a kind of splatterpunk, grind house kinda way) than The Worm and his Kings but this is likely because Brite wrote it pre-transition and troons ruin literally everything they touch. The author appears to have gone inactive post troonery.

 

[Big Dogs Gonna Eat]

“Tranny” by Laura Jane Grace

I'm a music fag so I've actually read this book. I kind of forgot about it until now. I recall it being mostly a sad story of a likely gay drug addict who wanted to be cool, straight and tough. The book confirms a ton of transphobic stereotypes, hell even his new music really lays into the porn addicted drug addict / coomer stuff. I can at least respect his honesty and the behind the scenes knowledge of stuff like warped tour and adjacent bands.

One big thing I remember while reading it was an admission that the tour Against Me did with Mastadon had like half the shows canceled because they drank and did cocaine every night. The next year I missed seeing dinosaur jr because they were opening for Mastadon and Mastadon cancelled the show lmao.