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: "Canary: The Courageous and Moving Story of a Transsexual" by Canary Conn.
The book is a revised edition of Canary Conn's book from 1974. She is an American entertainer and writer, as well as one of the American transgender pioneers. She made numerous talk show appearances to discuss her transition in the 1970s. Let me quote an interesting review: "There's a lot more visibility within the trans community today and I wanted to read a story from a time in which trans lives were less than celebrated from the source. It was interesting to read what still resonates today and how attitudes have changed. She finds herself struggling to make ends meet and lives in constant fear of being discovered for who she is or being outed by someone she had confided in and becoming the topic of discussion at the office or other social gathering."
1977,
Canary Conn,
English,
Original title: "Travelling (Itinerario Transexual)" is the Spanish language edition of "Travelling: Un itinéraire transsexuel" by Kathy Dee.
If "Travelling" was only the report of a transsexual itinerary, it would only be a new testimony to a phenomenon, that the evolution of morals no longer relegates us to a shameful domain. But the adventures of Jean-Marie, a bookseller in Liège, who became Kathy, the night beauty of the bars of Sankt-Pauli in Hamburg, lead to a major literary work.
The pursuit, often desperate, of a truth, is profound: her childhood, discovery of sexuality, marriage, and divorce. Then she changes (test of make-up, injections with hormones, first getaway disguised as a woman, the first client picked up), bursts into sheaves of personal or collective reminiscences, an explosive homage to James Joyce and Henry Miller, which ends with this cry: "Jean-Marie is dead! As far as he ever existed, swinging, like his first name, between two poles. I'm Kathy now. From Jean-Marie to Kathy, it is therefore a birth that we are given to witness, but - above all - the birth of a writer.
1977,
Kathy Dee,
Spanish,
