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: "Charlotte. Salome. Veronika. Transvestiten" (Charlotte. Salome. Veronica. Transvestites) by Susann Hillebrand and Irmgard Johannson.In the book, three transgender women are portrayed in photos and interviews. Charlotte was born in 1900 and was 78 years old when the book was published, Salome was 22 and Veronika was 26. In their questions, the two authors show real interest in the analysis of the transgender phenomenon and transgender community in Germany.
1978,
German,
Irmgard Johannson,
Susann Hillebrand,
Original title: "Elles ... "les travestis": La verite sur les transsexuels" (They ... "the transvestites": The truth about transsexuals) by Colette Piat.One evening, around midnight, on the edge of the Wood, Colette Piat broke down... Night beauties came to her rescue... After they left, she realized that they were not ordinary "women"... Because of this meeting, the author wanted to question the others, those who are called "transvestites". Marie-Andrée, feminized by Nazi doctors; Eva, a fifty-five-year-old worker, who has been receiving a reduced salary since her operation; Lucretia, chosen
1978,
Colette Piat,
French,
Original title: "Uguali e diversi: I travestiti come e perche" (Same and different: Transvestites how and why) by Edoardo BalloneThis publication is one of the first books about the transgender and transvestite community in Italy, written by Edoardo Ballone (1942-2011), an Italian journalist from La Stampa.
1978,
Edoardo Ballone,
Italian,
Original title: "Câline, le sexe de l'aube" (Câline, dawn sex)We are not born a woman, we become one, Simone de Beauvoir did not believe she said it so well. Câline was a boy. She earned her title as a woman in the streets, on the sidewalks and on the stages, in the slums and in the sordid nights.Serge Delarue recounts the metamorphosis of this princess of the underworld, and her unique passion for being a woman despite others, despite the law, and despite nature. Câline was perhaps humanity in the making, or femininity playing out on the stools of Pigalle. Cuddle, dawn sex, beautiful promi
1978,
French,
Serge Delarue,
Full title: "Mirror Image: The Odyssey of a Male-to-Female Transsexual" by Nancy Hunt.Nancy Hunt (1927-1999), born Ridgely Hunt, was an American reporter and copy editor. Before her transition, she was known for her service in the American army in the Second World War and her negative comments about hippies and women, but something changed in the late 1960s when she started to grow her hair long and wear makeup. In the next years, Nancy, as a man, got married twice but her marriage ended when she underwent gender reassignment surgery. In the early 1980s, she married Wallace Bowman."
1978,
English,
Nancy Hunt,
