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: "Letters for My Sisters: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect"
"LETTERS FOR MY SISTERS is an anthology of collected wisdom by and for transgender women. This groundbreaking collection of letters tells raw, heartfelt stories of childhood, transitioning, and becoming women in a world where acceptance is sometimes elusive and costly. Brave, boldly vulnerable and revealing, this collection adds to a growing body of literature where trans people tell their own stories as they lived them."
Andrea James is a very prolific American artist, writer, film producer, director, businesswoman, and LGBT rights activist, known for her performance in the first all-transgender cast of The Vagina Monologues, a play by Eve Ensler, and for directing two short films "Casting Pearls" (2007) and "Transproofed" (2009).
2014,
Andrea James,
Deanne Thornton,
English,
Full title: "ME!: The Gift of Being Transgender" by Monica P Mulholland.
If there is a contrast between the person you look and sound like, and the person you feel, experience, and know yourself to be, you may believe you are different from everyone else in your life, and very likely different from everyone else in your community, your country, and even the world. For transgender people, this painful dissonance is often the very fabric of their early lives. Monica P. Mulholland’s book ME!: The Gift of Being Transgender rips the silence away from that experience and fills it with truth, courage, and the hope that comes from being fully seen.
This book is not simply a memoir. It is a chorus of voices, a collection of stories told by trans women and men who reveal what it has meant to survive and to thrive in a world that so often misunderstands them. From the struggles of childhood to the tumult of adolescence, from moments of despair to the triumphs of authenticity, these narratives insist that our shared humanity is far greater than the fears that divide us.
And yet, the reality is stark. Transgender kids often grow up under a shadow of cruelty, mocked, misgendered, bullied, excluded. For far too many, that rejection curdles into hopelessness, into shame so deep it can silence a life before it has even fully begun. The statistics around trans youth suicide are not abstract numbers, they are warnings etched in grief. They remind us that when difference is punished instead of embraced, the cost is measured in lives. Monica does not flinch from these truths. She demands that we see them.
But this book is not about despair, it is about survival, about joy, about the light that breaks through when someone is allowed to live as themselves. Monica speaks of the “Common Ground of our shared Humanity,” a reminder that every one of us wants the same basic things: love, dignity, respect. When those things are extended to trans people, the world becomes richer, not poorer.
2016,
Andrea James,
English,
Interview,
Jennifer Boylan,
Monica P Mulholland,
