Helen Boyd is the pen name of Gail Kramer (born 1969), an American author, academic, and activist.

[2] Helen Boyd graduated Phi Beta Kappa from City College of New York in 1995 with a degree in literature.

[8] My Husband Betty (2003, Seal Press) is a non-fiction book by author Helen Boyd about crossdressers and their partners.

[9] Unlike many other books about the topic of crossdressing, it is written specifically from the partner's point of view and takes a distinctively feminist approach.

Although the author's spouse was a crossdresser at the time of publication, she now considers herself "trans", a word chosen specifically because it was less well defined (and therefore less restrictive) than "transgender".