Recommended Reading

Books and edited collections recommended by the TRPATH Education Committee.

These titles are offered as an introduction to the clinical, historical, and ethical literature on racial incongruence. Listing does not constitute an endorsement of every claim in a volume. Members receive Journal Club access to discuss new work.

  • Feeling Race: Clinical Encounters with Racial Incongruence

    I. Fauxley & H. Mannschade (Eds.), 2025

  • Assigned at Birth: A History of Racial Classification in Medicine

    E. Pigmentov, 2023

  • The Passing Trap: Why Phenotype Is Not Identity

    M. Nuance, 2024

  • Melanin, Meaning, and the Body

    B. Spraytan, 2026

  • Children Who Know: Supporting Racial Identity in Schools

    R. Pretendo, 2025

  • Standards of Care for the Health of Transracial and Race-Diverse People, Version 8

    TRPATH, 2026