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: "Tristes plaisirs" (Sad Pleasures). This is the first biography of Maud Marin. The book had many re-editions, including in 1991,
In the book, Maud Marin presents her years as a call girl, describing in detail her own life and the experiences of her female colleagues.'They are called daughters of joy. Changeable unknowns who mix "the foam of pleasure with the tears of torment".
Some walk like cattle slow and serious, between a sidewalk and a squalid hotel.
Others, from a galley to galley, from the lights of the Champs to the glow of the rue Saint-Denis, from the clandestine houses to the Wood, find themselves at the restaurant of sex, the hospice of the taping.
1989,
French,
Maud Marin,
Full title: "Pleasures of a Tangled Life" by Jan Morris. The book was published in 1989, and it has had many re-editions since then.
"In 1974, when world-renowned travel writer Jan Morris published her immensely popular autobiography "Conundrum" - which describes her gender change - critics wondered what kind of sensibility would result from this extraordinary shift.
"Pleasure of a Tangled Life" provides the answer.
On one level, this book may be read as a fanciful celebration of quotidian pleasures and an invitation to share her private delights. But there is more: a singular memoir unveiling Morris's complex personality, her idiosyncrasies, passions, and obsessions - written in her powerful and original style, possessed of verve and wit and an eye for the telling detail."
1989,
English,
Georges Burou,
Jan Morris,
Original title: "Apokalipsa płci" (Gender Apocalypse) by Kazimierz Imieliński and Stanisław Dulko.
The main parts of the book are authentic stories of transsexual people - born in Poland and growing up in the wrong bodies. Memoirs are divided thematically, accompanied by diaries and poems.
The whole book is embellished with comments from sexologists. This is one of the first publications on transsexualism in Poland.
1989,
Kazimierz Imieliński,
Polish,
Stanisław Dulko,
