A random collection of over 1994 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: "Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them" by Mariette Pathy Allen.
According to Mariette Pathy Allen's website, Mariette Pathy Allen has been photographing the transgender community for over 40 years. Through her artistic practice, she has been a pioneering force in gender consciousness, contributing to numerous cultural and academic publications about gender variance and lecturing throughout the globe.
Her first book "Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them" was groundbreaking in its investigation of a misunderstood community. Her second book "The Gender Frontier" is a collection of photographs, interviews, and essays covering political activism, youth, and the range of people that identify as transgender in mainland USA. It won the 2004 Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender/Genderqueer category. Daylight Books has published Mariette’s books, “TransCuba” in 2014, and her new book "Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thailand" in 2017.
1990,
English,
Mariette Pathy Allen,
USA,
Full title: "Sisterhood: The untold story" by Joash Moo.
The book presents oral histories of the transvestites and transsexuals of Singapore. Oooooh, I love men! "Homo", "Ah Qua", "Bapok"; the transvestites and transsexuals of Singapore have long been a much maligned and misunderstood section of our society. But through the experiences of lascivious prostitutes, effeminate national servicemen, the pansy undergraduate - characters – which we recognise in life the masks of mascara and frivolity are stripped bare to expose their innermost feelings and private lives. And there has been much to share...
From the first stirring realisations of adolescent lust; the shock and guilt of sexual desires; the pain following insults, abuse, and rejection; the terrifying dilemma of a sex-change operation to the ecstasy of marriage, we are plunged into the helter-skelter world of the "sisters". In Sisterhood: The Untold Story, Joash Moo shatters the prejudices and taboos of our AIDS-mania age in an honest, never-before revealed peek at the exaggerated swing of the bottom, the generous bosoms, and the girlish mannerisms. Sisterhood is a collection of true stories, based either on interviews or actual persons known to the author.
1990,
English,
Joash Moo,
Singapore,
Full title: "The Official Autobiography of Sex-Change" by Stephanie Anne Lloyd.
“The Official Autobiography of Sex-Change” by Stephanie Anne Lloyd is an extraordinary chronicle of a life lived boldly and unapologetically, capturing the journey of one of Britain’s most visible and pioneering transgender figures. Stephanie Anne Booth, also known as Stephanie Anne Lloyd, was born on May 25, 1946, in St Albans, Hertfordshire, and later grew up in a family that became Jehovah’s Witnesses.
From a young age, Stephanie was aware of her unique identity, later explaining in a 1988 interview with Ruby Wax that she was born with a chromosome disorder that made her partly female. Her early adulthood was marked by ordinary jobs including work as a laboratory technician, cinema manager, costing clerk, and retail chain manager, and in 1968 she married and fathered three children. Despite these conventional beginnings, her life took a profound turn in the early 1980s when she separated from her family and began the process of gender reassignment under the care of a specialist psychologist at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester, culminating in surgery at Charing Cross Hospital in London in September 1983. At this point, she adopted the name Stephanie Anne Lloyd, marking a new chapter in both her personal and professional life, though this transition came with significant challenges including a divorce and losing her managerial job due to tabloid publicity.
1990,
English,
Stephanie Anne Booth,
Stephanie Anne Lloyd,
