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.
2019,
Roberta R.,
Spanish,
Original title: "Diario de Transbordo" (Transshipment Diary) by Roberta R.
"I understood everything during an afternoon at the end of August of that same year. I was lying on the bed staring at the ceiling when something in my brain clicked as if someone had pressed a button that made a light bulb go on. Cassandra doesn't know it, but I will always be grateful to her for opening my eyes, as she indirectly made me understand that, if I liked trans women so much, it was because deep down I dreamed of being like them.
I noticed that during our meeting I came to feel some jealousy for her while admiring her naked body, and I thought it would have been wonderful if our roles had been reversed. "Eureka!" I exclaimed as Archimedes did when he discovered that the volume of water rising is equal to the volume of the submerged body. At that exact moment, I understood that I was born to be a trans woman. I had an authentic revelation that made me suddenly rise as if Our Lady had appeared before my eyes. "I'm a woman! I uttered a liberating scream that lacerated the silence of the room. I am a woman! –Repeated–. I'm Roberta, I'm a woman!"
"I am Roberta, a 32-year-old Italian trans writer, living in Barcelona for ten years, and Diario de Transbord is, my first book. This is an autobiographical novel relating to my transition process, from a very intimate point of view, passing through all the key stages that led me to be the trans woman I am now. The idea that I want to convey is that the life of a trans person is the same in many aspects as that of a normal and everyday person, if we want to show the day to day of a trans woman to "normalize" it and make the readers understand that we care in common the same feelings, wonders and restlessness."
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