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.

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George Petros - The New Transsexuals

Full title: "The New Transsexuals: The Next Step In Human Evolution"

"To some it's Science Fiction; to others, salvation. Some snicker and sneer; some say: I'd do that. A few transform themselves with hormones and new attitudes. A very few step forward for gender-reassignment surgery. Morphologically speaking, men become women and women become men. Psychologically speaking, they become who they already are. Technology, desire, courage, despair and politics come together under the surgeon's knife, or at the tip of a syringe, or in fashion's secret closet. 

In The New Transsexuals: The Next Step In Human Evolution, George Petros, author of Art That Kills, examines the social dynamics of sex changing and rearranging, and presents in interview form a snapshot of the Transsexual Revolution. Fred H. Berger, once publisher of Propaganda Magazine, provides the introduction. Interviewers Petros, Berger, Manuel Vasquez, Rio Warner, John Aes-Nihi, and Stanton LaVey probe Transsexuals and Transgender-identified individuals (as well as Annie Sprinkle, a gal with a hands-on fetish for Trans guys) about who they are, what they do and what they want.

Amanda Lepore - Doll Parts

The book is an autobiography of Amanda Lepore, an American model, singer, and performance artist, known for her appearances in many advertising campaigns and being a regular subject in photographer David LaChapelle's work, serving as his muse.

According to Wikipedia, when she was 15 years old, Lepore befriended a transgender dancer named Bambi. Lepore then started making costumes for Bambi in exchange for female hormones. Her parents took her to a psychologist, who helped her obtain a prescription to begin hormone therapy.

At the age of 17, and through a legal loophole, she married a male bookstore owner and was granted permission for gender affirmation surgery, which she underwent in New York. After the confirmation surgery, she later left her husband.

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