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: "A Feminist Post-transsexual Autoethnography: Challenging Normative Gender Coercion" by Julie Peters.Gender as a social class along with its concomitant heteronormative gender coercion seem to be intransigent across time and cultures. But across these cultures we also see a degree of nonconforming behaviour which very often carries significant multi-dimensions of stigma and risk; because the exception proves the rule, an understanding of gender nonconformity sheds light on the normative operation of gender in society.A Feminist Post-transsexual Autoethnography attempts to demythol
2019,
Australia,
English,
Julie Peters,
Full title: "Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910" by Noah Riseman."Trans and gender diverse people have always been present in Australian life, whether they've lived quiet lives in the country, performed in cabaret shows, worked on the streets or run for parliament. But over the last century there have been remarkable changes in how they have identified and expressed themselves. Transgender Australia is the first book to chart the changing social, medical, legal and lived experiences of trans and gender diverse people in Australia since 1910. Drawing on over a hundred oral histor
2023,
Australia,
English,
Noah Riseman,
Full title: "My Life Inside the Chrysalis" by S. Jane Hill."My Life Inside the Chrysalis is an autobiography about what molded me from birth to transition to the present. It is a sometimes brutal, often philosophical, story of my life and that which moulded me into the true self I am today… the strong woman that I have become.""Susan Jane Hill was born as Steven Wayne Hill at Annandale in Sydney, Australia on the 16th of July 1968. She had a talent for writing and art from an early age, but did not follow these pursuits until much later in life. Having spent her life accumulating information
2021,
Australia,
English,
S. Jane Hill,
Susan Jane Hill,
Full title: "My Knight's Quest: The story of a transwoman’s search to find a space for herself and a place where she could exist" by Adrian Barnes."Few of us consider that our life is particularly interesting or unusual. We can recall some brief highlights over the years with a smile, but often our lives are cluttered with moments we would rather not remember. I was no different in this respect, though perhaps I had more clutter than many. The events that could make up my life story, such as my career and family life, were clearly of little interest to anyone.My past was captured in photograp
2022,
Adrian Barnes,
Australia,
English,
Full title: "Faking It: My Life in Transition" by Kyle Mewburn."Kyle Mewburn grew up in the sunburnt, unsophisticated Brisbane suburbs of the 1960s and '70s in a household with little love and no books, with a lifelong feeling of being somehow wrong - like 'strawberry jam in a spinach can'. In this book, Kyle describes this early life and her journey to becoming her own person - a celebrated children's book author, a husband and, finally, a woman.This is a heartbreaking, often hilarious, candid true story about what it means to hide from yourself, your partner and the world, and then to attai
2022,
Australia,
English,
Kyle Mewburn,
New Zealand,
Full title: "Girl, Transcending: Becoming the woman I was born to be" by AJ Clementine."AJ Clementine always knew she was a girl. The problem was, she'd been born in a magical shell that looked, on the outside, like a perfect little boy. In her teens, this conflict between her outer and inner selves exploded, igniting years of anxiety and panic attacks. Now fast becoming one of the world's most visible transgender spokespeople, AJ's journey to accept and live as her true self has captivated hundreds of thousands of people on TikTok, Youtube and Instagram, where she has shared her gender tran
2022,
AJ Clementine,
Australia,
English,
Full title: "Tipsy Tango: A Biography" by Gina Gatto and Anna Russell.The book presents the story of Serena Bell (called Anna Russell in the book), the former ladies' bowling club president in Australia.
Born as Kim Durant in 1944, she was married to a fashion model, fathered two children, became a motorcycle cop, ran a sex fantasy service, was president of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle club, and then had a sex change.She was pictured in a national bikie magazine with her tattoo body art and married a Sydney man.
As Serena Bell, she became the president of a ladies' bowling club. Her story
2004,
Anna Russell,
Australia,
English,
Gina Gatto,
Full title: "Inside out: An Australian collection of coming out stories" by Erin Shale."An anthology of real life stories from the Australian gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. Drawn from a wide range of experiences, cultural backgrounds and age groups, the collection explores the challenges and rewards of finding a way out of the closet and living a life of truth and integrity... Contributors include Monique Brumby, Dorothy McRae-McMahon, Sue-Ann Post, Bob Brown, and Ian Roberts.""One of the most important achievements of adolescence and a crucial step towards becoming a hap
1999,
Australia,
English,
Erin Shale,
Full title: "Memoirs of a Samoan, Catholic, and Fa'afafine" by Vanessa."Vanessa was born in independent Samoa, where her parents were Catholic missionaries. Her father, an American Samoan, was a naturalized United States citizen while her mother was a citizen of independent Samoa. Through the one-parent naturalization law of the U.S. Immigration Office, Vanessa became a United States national, the immigration status of all the citizens of the American Samoa Territory of the United States.Her memoirs are a recollection of her life as she struggled through her sexual identity, becoming the firs
2007,
Australia,
English,
Vanessa,
Full title: "Man?: I'm not a man!" by Michelle Edwards."I've had quite a few people tell me I've lived
an interesting life and that I should write a book. So
I did. There are many, many other things I can write
about in this book, but I'm mainly interested in telling
the reader what I think are the key moments that
shaped who I became in this world, emphasizing my
transformation from male to female.""Well, here I am. Perth, Western Australia, 2008
and I've finally found who I am, and what I am
doing here. It's been what seems like a very long,
hard road emotionally. It has been seven years si
2010,
Australia,
English,
Michelle Edwards,
Full title: "You Say Different; I Say Individual: My Journey In Finding The Woman Within" by Shauna Wilson."Who are you? What do you see when you look in the mirror? Are you happy with the reflection staring back at you? In this must-read book, Shauna shares the torment she once felt in who she was brought up to believe she would be, where in actual fact, it was in complete conflict with who she eventually accepted herself as. Shauna provides insight into the pressure bestowed upon a child with a conflicted gender identity and the pain-filled path she walked to eventual happiness.You Say Diff
2021,
Australia,
English,
Shauna Wilson,
Full title: "A Fellow No More" by Traci Felloes."A journey from boyhood . . . to womanhood. This book if full of vivid and emotive imagery. It is a truly human story about an amazing person who battles the odds to be who she is, educating those around her and finding love and acceptance from people in all walks of life. Traci has made all those who know her realise that a person should only be judged for the individual they are, not what sex they choose to be. She is a thoughtful human being who has a special way of creating acceptance and respect."
1997,
Australia,
English,
Traci Felloes,
Full title: "Chaye Unfolding" by Chaye Hartwell."Imagine a little girl trapped inside the body of a boy. This little girl has dreams of becoming a fashion model one day, but instead, life forces her to learn the art and craft of living as a male. She attends an all-boys boarding school, plays dominant male sports, and eventually crafts herself into the societal ideal of a young man.This little girl is me, and for twenty-five years, she remained living her life in secret. Appearing in short bursts in the dark of night through a laptop screen or my imagination, her need for existence was my gre
2021,
Australia,
Chaye Hartwell,
English,
Full title: "Now That I See You" by Emma Batchelor."In those first moments, that admission felt precious to me: it was something that I alone had been deemed worthy enough to carry and I was grateful. I was grateful to finally know, but I still couldn't speak.
Something was wrong, she knew it, but she was entirely unprepared for what he would tell her." "Viewed through the lens of a relationship breakdown after one partner discloses to the other that they are transgender, this autofiction spans eighteen months: from the moments of first discovery, through the eventual disintegration of
2021,
Australia,
Emma Batchelor,
English,
Full title: "Half Him Half Her: When do I get to be ME" by Stephanie Rachael Vaughan."Gender, what is it exactly? It has often been said that Gender is who you go to bed 'as', whereas Sexuality is who you go to bed 'with'. But what happens if you are born 'intersex' and sit somewhere in between male and female; a situation made more complex if your parents conceal that fact from you? And what to think when you learn, more than five decades later, that you had modifying surgery when you were born?""Half Him Half Her is a heartfelt portrait beginning with the birth of Robin, to farming parents,
2021,
Australia,
English,
Stephanie Rachael Vaughan,
UK,
Full title: "Caught In The Act: A Memoir by Courtney Act" by Shane Jenek."Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts. Meet Shane Jenek. Raised in the suburbs of Brisbane, Australia, by loving parents, Shane realises from a young age that he’s not like all the other boys. At a performing arts agency he discovers his passion for song, dance and performance, and makes a promise to himself: to find a bigger stage. Meet Courtney Act.Born around the turn of the millennium, Courtney makes her name in the gay bars of Sydney. Years later, she makes star turns on RuPaul’s D
2022,
Australia,
Courtney Act,
Drag queen,
English,
Shane Jenek,
Full title: "What Would Love Do?: Parenting a child through the first year of gender transition" by Lyndsay Brown."Lyndsay Brown’s journey as the parent of a transgender child started on 25 October 2017 at about eight-fifteen p.m. It was abrupt and shocking, with no prior contemplations or parental imaginings to pave the way. It was the birth of a daughter she had absolutely not anticipated even for a single moment in her life until then.""Olivia was diagnosed with gender dysphoria, or the dissonance between the gender assigned at birth and her self-perceived gender identity. The image observ
2020,
Australia,
English,
Lyndsay Brown,
"He Did It Her Way: Carlotta, Legend of Les Girls" by Carlotta and James Cockington is the first biography of Carlotta. The second biography "Carlotta: I'm Not That Kind of Girl" was published in 2003."For 26 years from 1963, Carlotta was the undisputed Queen of Kings Cross - the legend of Les Girls, a landmark theatre restaurant where all the women on stage were really drag queens. This is a fascinating and often hilarious journey into her world as a performer and transexual who started life as a Balmain boy and went on to have one of the first sex change operations in Australia."According t
1994,
Australia,
Carlotta,
English,
James Cockington,
Full title: "Orlando's Sleep: An Autobiography of Gender" by Jennifer Spry."This is an inspiring story of courage and perseverance toward the hardest goal of all - self-acceptance. As a child, Spry cherished the moments when he was left alone at home so he could dress up in his mother's clothes.In adolescence, he tried to prove his manhood by competitive sailing and heavy drinking. When even marriage and fatherhood failed to make a man of him, John began the long journey towards recognition of herself as Jennifer, a woman and a lesbian.""This autobiography by Jennifer Spry explores the comple
1996,
Australia,
English,
Jennifer Spry,
Full title: "No Justice: An Investigation Into the Death of Adele Bailey" by Robin Bowles. The book was published in 2000, and it was republished in 2007 and 2021 (audiobook)."This is the case that is still being investigated following two inquests and millions of dollars. It has also ruined several lives.
On 19 July 1995, two young men stumbled upon a partially clothed Melbourne transgender call girl Adele Bailey, who had been missing for more than 17 years. How did Adele Bailey die, and why was her body hidden in a forgotten mineshaft?
Was there a connection between Adele Baile
2000,
Adele Bailey,
Australia,
English,
Robin Bowles,
