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 among several models for a publicity photograph of a mother; Chimène, enslaved by a companion "phallocrat"; Jeanne-Marie, seduced by the man of her dreams who turned out to be... A woman, all force us to question our ideas, demonstrating, by their very existence, the absurdity of prejudices affecting the feminine condition and homosexuality. Mutants? Afflicted women of a male sex? What is certain is that they are both sought on the sexual level and hunted by the Police, Justice, and the Administration. "You know what society means to us?" one of them asks; "It is a cage like that of Louis XI; You can't lie down, get up, or move, and yet you're alive... »
1978,
Colette Piat,
French,
Original title: "Uguali e diversi: I travestiti come e perche" (Same and different: Transvestites how and why) by Edoardo Ballone
This 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 promise.
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.
"Nancy Ridgely Hunt Bowman was born on February 1, 1927, in New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA. Nancy Hunt Bowman worked for 21 years as an editor and writer for the Chicago Tribune and won awards for her work as a foreign correspondent covering the Vietnam War under the byline Ridgely Hunt.
She died June 21 at a seniors residence in Bonita Springs, Fla., at age 72. Mrs. Bowman was the widow of Wallace R. Bowman Sr.
In 1978, she wrote and published "Mirror Image," a detailed account of the sex-change operation that enabled Ridgely Hunt to become Nancy Hunt. The book was written from a feminine perspective and only mentioned her earlier identity in an oblique way, noting that the male journalist she used to be had worked as a popular feature writer for the Tribune."
1978,
English,
Nancy Hunt,
