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.
Original title: "Mann oder Frau! Das Schicksal einer Abenteurer-Natur" (Man or woman! The destiny of an adventurer nature) by Elsbeth Ebertin.
The book (pamphlet) covers the story of Toni Simon (actually Anton Simon, 1887-1979), a man from Stuttgart, openly living as a transwoman. Simon was considered one of the most well-known transwomen of the first decades of the 20th century.
She ran the legendary Café 1930 in Essen's Segerothstraße and she published a magazine for transvestites. Simon gained further fame through this book, written by the Heilbronn-based writer and astrologer Elsbeth Ebertin (1880-1944), who presented Toni Simon's life and suffering and published two photographs of Simon.
1933,
Elsbeth Ebertin,
German,
Toni Simon,
Original title: "La femme qui était en lui" (The woman who was in him)
Edmond Rostand's son has a very recognizable style of writing, a little sentimental and exalted, which we find as much in his poetry as in this curious story.
The narrator, a musician of great sensitivity, relates to a man he was very close to, Emmanuel, the journey that led him to consult a Swiss doctor. He asked him to rid him of the part of femininity that seemed too present in his personality and to embody this element in a new, entirely feminine being.
The rest of the book describes the unforeseen, curious, and ultimately dramatic consequences of this experiment in resolving a sexual identity problem.
1933,
1937,
French,
Maurice Rostand,
