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.
2018,
Brazil,
Helena Soares Meireles,
Portuguese,
Original title: "Meu nome é Helena" (My name is Helena) by Larissa Rosso.
Larissa Rosso presents the story of Helena Soares Meireles, who was born Heleno. "It took Helena Soares Meireles months to encourage herself to be reunited with her father after the operation that changed her body forever. At the age of 36, the transsexual had undergone a sex affirmation surgery, indicated for cases of dysphoria or gender incongruence, adapting her genitalia to the gender with which she actually identified – from a young age, Heleno, her baptismal name, felt like a woman."
"The procedure conducted at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) transformed, after more than two years of psychological preparation and monitoring by a multidisciplinary team, the penis and scrotum into a vagina.
In that February of 2014, Helena, who always avoided makeup and women's clothes in family life, trying to disguise what was already impossible to hide, reappeared in front of the retired electrician in a long navy blue dress that left her shoulders exposed, sandals and with her black and curly hair, augmented with megahair, fastened with bobby pins on the side. The look that the father directed to his son, and that from then on he would have to learn to call in a new way, among many other changes, was one of longing, not of astonishment or reproach. Before they bonded in a hug, the two were already crying."
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