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: "The Trans Biography Project: Stories from the Lives of Eleven Trans People in BC" by Kathleen Cross."The purpose of this collection is to educate the broader community about the experiences, needs and situations of trans people. It features a brief biography of each person, using their words as much as possible to tell their stories, share their experiences, and articulate the issues that are relevant to them as a trans, transgendered or transsexual person (a note about language usage is below). These stories are an attempt to put a “human face” on the issues of trans people and
2001,
Aiyyana Maracle,
Canada,
Dannis Bragas,
English,
Kathleen Cross,
Kimberly Nixon,
Original title: "Watashi no karada wa kamisama ga itazura de tsukutta no? - Seidōitsuseishōgai o koete" 私の体は神様がイタズラで造ったの?―性同 - 性障害を超えて(Was My Body Created by God as a Prank? - Beyond Gender Identity Disorder) by Ikeda Minoru 池田 稔 The book presents the reality of the anguish of transgender people and the actual conditions of treatment for gender identity disorder in Japan. The author is a urologist who deals with patients suffering from gender identity disorder.Ikeda Minoru receives many messages like this one: "No matter how you look at it, the body I was born with belongs to a "man". But I w
2001,
Ikeda Minoru,
Japanese,
Original title: "Der kalifornische Alptraum oder Wie ich glücklich wurde" (The Californian Nightmare or How I Became Happy) by Pamela Helen Bonert.Pamela Helen Bonert (born Armin Bonert on December 17, 1950) is an author and the first transgender female soldier in the German Bundeswehr to have undergone gender reassignment surgery while serving in the army. She was already an Air Force officer with the rank of captain when she finally had her gender reassignment surgery in 1999 due to her trans identity.The management of the Bundeswehr reacted by transferring her to the medical regiment as be
2001,
German,
Pamela Helen Bonert,
Original title: "Die weisse Feder. Hat die Seele ein Geschlecht?" (The white feather. Does the soul have a gender?) by Nadia Brönimann.Even as a child, Christian knew that he was different from the others – a stranger in his own body. But he kept running away from himself, he was a stick boy on the Côte d'Azur, a revue dancer in Berlin and a drag queen in the Basel gay scene. Until he is finished and realizes that he has to face the lie of his life: he is not a man, he is a woman in the body of a man, he is Nadia.
A lengthy odyssey begins...Nadia Brönimann, born in 1969 in Memmingen (Allgäu
2001,
German,
Nadia Brönimann,
Switzerland,
Original title: "Ibeuga doen adam halisu" 이브가 된 아담 하리수 (Eve from Adam).Harisu, a Korean transgender woman who started out as a cosmetics CF model, known for her lead role in the movie "Yellow Hair 2" and active in the entertainment industry as a singer and model, candidly shares her life in this book. It is a collection of photo essays with her photos and videos.
She writes about how she decided to undergo gender reassignment surgery, her complicated feelings about love, marriage, and family, and her thoughts on life as a transgender person from childhood to the present.She said that she sh
2001,
Harisu,
Korean,
South Korea,
Original title: "Transseksualizm i rodzina: Przekaz pokoleniowy wzorów relacyjnych w rodzinach transseksualnych kobiet" (Transsexualism and the family: The generational transmission of relational patterns in the families of transgender women) by Małgorzata Fajkowska-Stanik.The book was published in 2001 by Małgorzata Fajkowska-Stanik, a professor at the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
2001,
Małgorzata Fajkowska-Stanik,
Polish,
Original title: "Jean, Jocelyne" by Jocelyne and Florence Haguenauer.She is a woman in her fifties. A little piece of woman who looks like so many others... Twenty years of marriage, an employee in a large company in the region where she is known as the white wolf for being a union delegate for many, many years, she could be your next-door neighbor, your work colleague or a friend with whom you like to share an evening of cinema, perhaps even go jogging on days of great courage. Jocelyne is certainly everybody. Except that three years ago, Jocelyne was a man. Anyway, that's what everyone
2001,
Florence Haguenauer,
French,
Jocelyne,
Original title: "Carnet de bord d'un steward devenu hôtesse de l'air" (Logbook of a steward turned into stewardess) by Andréa Colliaux."Changing sex, for Bruno Colliaux, was not a whim of "great madness" but a cruel ambiguity of nature. Treated as a beautiful little girl in childhood, stuffed with male hormones at puberty to develop her male organs, this androgynous character never supported manly attributes that did not correspond to her deep reality. Not to mention the look of others, the loneliness, the impossibility of confiding. Neither "gay", nor "straight", neither man nor woman, she h
2001,
Andréa Colliaux,
French,
Full title: "The Woman I Was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual Journey" by Aleshia Brevard. This is her first biography. In 2010, she published her second biographical book - "The Woman I Was Born To Be" (2010)."Told with humour and flair, this is the autobiography of one transsexual's wild ride from boyhood as Alfred Brevard (Buddy) Crenshaw in rural Tennessee to voluptuous female entertainer in Hollywood. Aleshia Brevard, as she is now known, underwent transitional surgery in Los Angeles in 1962, one of the first such operations in the United States. (The sexual surgery pioneer Harry Benjamin h
2001,
Aleshia Brevard,
English,
Interview,
USA,
Original title: "Jenny Bel'Air: Une créature" (Jenny Bel'Air: A Creature) by François Jonquet."The book tells the irresistible rise of Jenny Bel'Air, an uncertain creature, sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, and who, at some point, becomes the absolute star of the trendy Paris of the 80s. How did he or she get here? And how did the glitter of glory fade away? François Jonquet gives us this answer. At a time when answers are rare, this book is a tremendously human testimony on a creature both glamorous and "on the margins" where the great figures of the Parisian Underground are resurrect
2001,
François Jonquet,
French,
Jenny Bel'Air,
"La danese" is the Italian language edition of The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff.Having gender reassignment surgery in the 1930s was an unusual and sensational affair, and the man who took the step to do so was the Danish painter Einar Mogens Andreas Wegener, who after the operation took the name of Lili Elbe.The operation took place at the Institute for Sexology in Berlin, where the male organs were removed. The surgery was performed by Felix Abraham at the recommendation of Magnus Hirschfeld.Einar Wegener was married to the beautiful, celebrated artist Gerda Wegener. They lived in a highly
2001,
David Ebershoff,
Italian,
Lili Elbe,
Original title: "Rejsen mod Bente: kønsskifteoperationen i Casablanca" (The journey towards Bente: the gender reassignment surgery in Casablanca). The book was published in 2001 and republished in 2018.This book is the deeply personal story of Bent Nimb, who embarked on a life-changing journey. In 1982, Bent Nimb was on her way from Copenhagen to Casablanca to undergo gender reassignment surgery.Years of hormone treatments at Rigshospitalet with many refusals of surgery from dozens of doctors, psychiatrists, sexologists, and the medical examiner's office had preceded the surgery.
But Bent Ni
2001,
2018,
Bente Nimb,
Danish,
Georges Burou,
"Seitenka: 53-sai de josei ni natta daigaku kyōju" (性転換―53歳で女性になった大学教授 - Sex Change: A University Professor Who Became a Woman at 53) is the Japanese language edition of "Crossing: A Memoir" by Deirdre N. McCloskey."We have read the stories of those who have "crossed" lines of race and class and culture. But few have written of crossing - completely and entirely - the gender line. "Crossing" is the story of Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald), once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s and 1960s privilege, and her dramatic and poignant journey to becoming a woman. McClos
2001,
Deirdre N. McCloskey,
Interview,
Japanese,
""O Au No Keia: Voices From Hawai'i's Mahu and Transgender Communities" by Andrew Matzner.'O Au No Keia is a collection of spoken narratives by male-to-female transgendered people and mahu who live on the island of O'ahu. The powerfully moving stories in this book not only reveal the experiences of those who cross the boundaries of sex and gender, but also illuminate what it means to do so in the unique cultural context of Hawai'i.""Andy Matzner is a licensed clinical social worker, teacher, and psychotherapist, as well as tarot reader. He lives with his family in the United States, in t
2001,
Andrew Matzner,
English,
