Talk:List of transgender publications

Notability

We've got kind of a mish mash here of notable publications and less than notable novels and memoirs. There are thousands of books on the topic. How shall we define notability? Bkatcher (talk) 22:01, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

@Bkatcher: Yup, agreed. After reading WP:LISTN, WP:LSC, and WP:SOURCELIST, I made a start at selection criteria; I look forward to your feedback. —Ringbang (talk) 02:35, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Selection criteria

Prerequisites

Before evaluating a work's notability, we should make sure it's relevant to the list, and within its scope.

Must be on-topic

Although the word transgender is sometimes used in a very broad and inclusive way, this list is not the best place to list works that focus on drag, cross-dressing, or intersex. Although these topics overlap, much of their literature is distinct. For publications about intersex, there is Literature about intersex. There is enough published material about cross-dressing and drag to populate dedicated list articles as well.

Must be substantial

Works in which transgender is incidental or marginal dilute the list and make it more difficult to find the most relevant works. Therefore, for all entries, at least one of the following must be true:

1. Transgender is either the subject of the work or a major theme.
2. The main character is unambiguously transgender. (No original research is involved in interpreting the gender of a character.)
3. The work is a well-regarded LGBTQI anthology with significant transgender content.

Evidence of notability

For books

The golden rule applies, and notability is established the same as for articles about books, but with relaxed requirements for the extent of coverage. One or two reliable sources that attest the work's literary value or contribution are sufficient. (See the general notability guideline and the notability guideline for books.)

A work with scant coverage might still be worthy of inclusion if it's a canonical example of some facet of transgender thought or experience; or if it's a memoir, (auto)biography, correspondence collection, or diary of a notable transgender person.

For periodicals

• All peer-reviewed academic journals devoted to transgender studies are suitable.
• If a print magazine for transgender people has an ISSN, it is suitable.
• All other transgender-focused periodicals—such as zines, newsletters, blogs, and online magazines—need reliable, independent sources to attest their relevance and notability. Personal blogs of notable transgender people are not suitable.

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As we check and revise the article's entries, I hope we'll spot ways that we can improve selection criteria to make List of transgender publications a better and better resource. Thoughts?
—Ringbang (talk) 02:35, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

For information, a page already exists on Literature about intersex, and it is substantially different from this list. Trankuility (talk) 16:33, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Added. —Ringbang (talk) 16:54, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

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Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness has a hijra as one of its primary characters and merits inclusion in the list of fiction. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 22:28, 1 May 2018 (UTC)