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: "Aaïcha: het bizarre conflict van een als man geboren vrouw" (Aaïcha: the bizarre conflict of a woman born as a man) by Ab Pruis and Aaïcha Bergamin.
I came across this book and its review through a fantastic website dedicated to the Dutch LGBT community.
"Aaïcha Bergamin was born Leonhard Bergamin in 1932. As a seventeen-year-old, she danced in Amsterdam in her sister's clothes. When her mother caught her with a Jamaican dancer at that time, she was forcibly admitted to a psychiatric institution in Heiloo. According to the doctors, she was a gay man with a trauma. "They just laughed at me when I told them I felt like a woman." Nevertheless, the doctors believed that a years-long trajectory of therapies and electroshocks could cure her."
1991,
Aaïcha Bergamin,
Ab Pruis,
Dutch,
