# Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day

**Author:** Alex L. Combs
**Grade range:** Grades 3–10
**First published:** 2025
**Page count:** 384
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9781536244885`
**ISBN-10:** `1536244880`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/trans-history-from-ancient-times-to-the-present-day
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

"Combs and Eakett do a fantastic job of providing readers an incredibly comprehensive and strongly researched—yet somehow compact—look into the history of trans identity." —School Library Journal (starred review) An essential introduction to trans history, from ancient times to the present day, in full-color graphic nonfiction format. Deeply researched, highly readable, and featuring a broad range of voices. What does “trans” mean, and what does it mean to be trans? Diversity in human sex and gender is not a modern phenomenon, as readers will discover through illustrated stories and records that introduce historical figures ranging from the controversial Roman emperor Elagabalus to the swashbuckling seventeenth-century conquistador Antonio de Erauso to veterans of the Stonewall uprising Ma

## Where this book is assigned

### Odyssey Award (Best Audiobook)

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