A random collection of over 1910 books and audiobooks authored by or about my transgender, intersex sisters, and gender-nonconforming persons all over the world. I read some of them, and I was inspired by some of them. I met some of the authors and heroines, some of them are my best friends, and I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing some of them. If you know of any transgender biography that I have not covered yet, please let me know.
1967,
English,
Richard-Rachel Lafayette,
Full title: "The Transexual: The True Story of a Man Turned Woman!" by Richard-Rachel Lafayette. The publication is an autobiography translated from French by Jacques Benoit.
"Richard-Rachel in his and her search for sexual identity was willing to go in any direction to accomplish this end.
The story presents a sexual adventure of self-discovery. Growing up in the small house of his parents in the French wine country educated Richard about conjugal sex. His father's continuous ridicule was balanced by his mother's intimate attention."
"He tells of early encounters with male and female schoolmates and his teacher. Escaping to Paris at the first opportunity, he became the pampered guest of a wealthy land-owner, who used Richard-Rachel for his pleasure. An x-ray disclosed that the feminine young man had a woman's genital architecture within him, in addition to his modest visible manhood."
"The [autobiography] is based upon tape-recorded sessions in the psychiatrist's office. The sessions were not psychiatric in intent. Transexualism — crossing over from one sex to another — is increasingly more common, now that surgical techniques have improved to the point where there is reasonable assurance of success in such an operation. There are many transvestites and pseudo-hermaphrodites in the world, but Richard Lafayette proved to be a real freak of nature [I hate the language which was used to describe gender non-conforming people at that time], a whimsical mistake that at first caused him much grief."
"We have seen his painful awareness of the fact that he was different, his attempts to cope with the problem and overcome it and conform to society's dictates. In retrospect, it seems inevitable that he should fail in these endeavors. Since he was basically a woman, his "homosexual" activities were a natural consequence, as were his desires to dress as a woman."
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