They say, the internet is the perfect medium for in-depth information. But as soon as you start searching, you guess its the perfect medium for info-trash. Good information is still hard to find and many content providers, e.g. scientific publishers, are quite reluctant publishing on the net.

We try to provide you with some useful links to other sites. With few exceptions, consumer-oriented sites didn't make it to this list. The utmost valuable resource by now is, in our opinion, the free Medline access (see below). This offer points to a time in the future when the internet will be what it is made for – the perfect medium for in-depth information.

This list is far from being complete. If you are aware of a good site providing information on a scholary level, which is not listed here, we'd apprechiate your e-mail to 101526.2743@compuserve.com

• Associations, Societies, Institutions
• Books
• Databases
• Journals
• Linklists & Websites
• News
• Publishers
• Search Engines
• Self Help

Associations, Societies, Institutions

American Psychoanalytic Association
Maintains a bibliographic database. Some transgender-related citations are listed.

American Psychological Association
Maintains three databases: Psychnet and Psychcrawler are free, but you won't find anything regarding transgenderism. Psychinfo is the biggest bibliographic database on psychology, covering more than 1,000 journals, but you need an account to access it.

Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association
Association of scholars working on Gender Dysphoria

Kinsey Institute
The mission of The Kinsey Institute is to promote interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction. They maintain a very good database with tons of information regarding transgenderism. Regretfully, this database is accessible through telnet only.

Program in Human Sexuality
The mission of the Program in Human Sexuality is to promote sexual health through education, research, patient care and community health initiatives. Transgender services include psychological counseling and medical management of hormone therapy and links to surgical resources for sex reassignment.

Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
The SSSS is an international organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about sexuality. It is the oldest organization of professionals interested in the study of sexuality in the United States.

Social Science Research Council
For nearly 75 years, the SSRC has been a bridge-builder among universities, foundations, the disciplines and area studies associations, and government. The SSRC provides a Sexuality Research Fellowship Program sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

World Association for Sexology
This organization is devoted to the the promotion of sexology, sexual health and sexual rights around the world.

Books

Amazon
World's biggest bookstore. Search and buy books in a very convenient atmosphere. Try keyword "transsexual"

The IFGE Bookstore
provides tons of books, mainly selfhelp and fiction. Comprehensive information on each title. Orders can be made via email, fax or phone.

SIECUS' booklist on gender and transgenderism
An extensive list, provided by SIECUS, a national, private, nonprofit advocacy organization which affirms that sexuality is a natural and healthy part of living. Just a list, no ordering.

Databases

AEGIS
Very big AIDS/HIV database which contains many citations related to transgenderism.

AskERIC
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally-funded national information system.

Dialog
Knight-Ridder's collection of more than 250 databases, the worlds biggest collection. But you have to have an account to search them.

Greatful Med
Medline for free. The citations database of the National Library of Medicine covering 10,000+ journals is fully searcheable on the internet.

PsychArticle Search
Armin Guenther's database of articles published in journals of the major scientific publishers. Very good database - as long as it works: the Javascript-based search facility is somewhat inconvenient and often quite slow.

Journals

All journals listed here provide tables of contents and abstracts for some issues, at least. An exhaustive list of psychological journals may be found at MedWeb and at the WWW Virtual Library, but not all of these journals provide ToCs, abstracts or fulltext.

American Journal of Psychiatry
Published by the American Psychiatric Association provides tables of contents and abstracts.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Published by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry provides ToCs and abstracts.

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Publication of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy provides ToCs and abstracts.

National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law
Published by Sunsite, an educational effort of Sun Software, provides fulltext of all articles (not many yet, as of September 1997).

Linklists & Websites

MedWeb
List maintained by Emory University with links to internet resources in psychology.

Transsexual Surgery
List of surgeons specialized in SRS, maintained by 1-800-SURGEON

Hormone-FAQ
a vast of information on hormones and hormone treatment for both FtM and MtF. Long list of references.

News

The New York Times Sexual Health Site
Very good site, try keyword "transsexual".

Publishers
Scientific publishers provide a vast of information on the internet, but really useful stuff is, as always, hard to find.

Association of American University Presses
Provides a database of publications. Try keyword "transsexual"

Oxford University Press, Elsevier and other publishing companies provide databases of their publications, but very few citations regarding transgenderism can be found.

Search Engines

MedExplorer
... specializes in covering sites in the health and medicine fields. The search facility did not work at the time we checked the MedExplorer, but the site looks quite consumer oriented.

MedWeb
Maintained by Emory University this is a very big search directory covering all aspects of medicine.

The Sleuth
... is a MetaSearchEngine. The pro is that you may search many resources from one site, the con is that doing this is usualy slow.

Yahoo
The mother of all search directories offers a comprehensive listing of transgender-related links.

Self Help

International Foundation for Gender Education
International Foundation for Gender Education
The IFGE, founded in 1978, is an educational and charitable organization addressing crossdressing and transgender issues. Website includes news on current tg topics and a community calendar. IFGE is also the publisher of renowned magazine Transgender Tapestry.

Transgender Forum
This commercial, consumer-oriented website maintains a list of useful resources.

Transsexual Women's Resources
Maintained by Anne Lawrence, M.D., a post-op transsexual, this site provides very useful consumer-oriented information.