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.
2021,
Brazil,
Letícia Lanz,
Portuguese,
Original title: "A construção de mim mesma: Uma história de transição de gênero" (The Making of Myself: A Story of Gender Transition) by Letícia Lanz.
"For decades, Letícia Lanz presented herself to the world in the role of Geraldo Eustáquio. Understanding yourself differently from most was a long and painful process. In this moving and honest account, Letícia recounts what it was like to come out as a transgender woman at the age of fifty.
Letícia Lanz is a psychoanalyst, speaker, activist and was a candidate for mayor of Curitiba in 2020. She is married with three children and five grandchildren. In this impactful book, she tells the story of her transition. The struggle to free herself from the bonds of gender began when she was still a child and culminated in a heart attack fifty years later. After a life marked by the permanent conflict between being herself or the person society demanded she to be, in the ICU bed, she understood that transitioning was the only thing to do if she wanted to stay alive.
By narrating her reflections and personal experiences, Letícia invites the reader to understand what it is to be and accept a transgender person in a society still unable to live with differences, governed by binarism, in which man and woman are categories determined from the sexual organ with which we are born. The Construction of Myself is a heartfelt book that sets out to open up new and varied dialogues about diversity, acceptance, and freedom."
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