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.
Full title: "Sex Change: The Achievement Of Gender Identity Among Feminized Transsexuals" by Thomas Kando.
The book describes "the post-operative adjustment of feminized transsexuals. It is a sociological study of the social relations of a group of transsexuals who have already undergone the sex change."
1973,
English,
Thomas Kando,
Full title: "The Transvestite Memoirs of the Abbe de Choisy" by Abbé de Choisy.
The first edition of the memoirs was published in ... 1736. Yes, it is not a joke. Since then, the memoirs have been published many times in many languages. Let me quote the introduction from Goodreads: "By a whim of his mother, Francois Timoleon de Choisy - better known as the Abbé de Choisy - was dressed as a girl until the age of 18.
After a short spell in male attire he became, by all accounts, the classic transvestite - a male heterosexual who never attempted to disguise his biological sex while going about in public in full female attire. Choisy's fascination with feminine accouterments made him something of an expert on women's fashions, and prominent society women even brought their daughters to him for advice.
His increasingly extravagant toilettes and exhibitionist behavior eventually earned him a public rebuke and exile from Paris. This study recounts the scandalous and entertaining escapades for which Choisy is best known today in a light, intimate, and accessible style. These authentic memoirs provide a firsthand account of manners and morals in late 17th-century society as well as remarkably exact portraits of his contemporaries, constituting a remarkable document in the history of transvestism."
1973,
1994,
2007,
English,
François-Timoléon De Choisy,
Full title: "The Man-Maid Doll: The strange story of a man who was turned into a woman" by Patricia Morgan as told to Paul Hoffman.
According to Wikipedia, Patricia Anne Morgan, also known as Patricia Anne Glavocich, (1939-1986), was an American transgender pioneer, businesswoman, and former sex worker who became, in the early 1960s, one of the earliest people to undergo gender reassignment surgery in the United States. She was one of the patients of the pioneering surgeon Elmer Belt.
In 1973 she published her book: "The Man-Maid Doll: The strange story o a man who was turned into a woman", which was not her first publication as in 1963 she was interviewed by Female Mimics ("How I Changed My Sex").
1973,
English,
Patricia Morgan,
