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: "Body Lessons: A Trans Memoir of Joy (The Trans Chronicles - Part 3)" by Bethany Beeler.
"For 50 years, I slogged through life, starved for some magic to rescue me. Nothing I did was ever enough. So, I grasped at anything that didn’t reek of unworthy me. Then I named myself and unleashed magic. Welcome to my life, marriage, family, friendships, and creative work, as well as some stories about coming out - a life lived both in soft places and hard, ravaged, gritty neighborhoods of the soul.
Join award-winning author, Bethany A. Beeler on her journey from pain to power, from fear to fearlessly voicing she is. Who we all are.
2022,
Bethany Beeler,
English,
USA,
Full title: "TransCountry: A Trans Journey Across America (The Trans Chronicles - Part 4)" by Bethany Beeler.
"You own a 50-year-old VW Camper that’s eight years younger than you. Your newborn grandson’s in Boston, while you live in Colorado. Of course, you drive cross-country with your wife.
Oh, yeah - you’re also trans.
Join Bethany and Pam on a heartland journey as they test their sanity and 35 years of marriage against an emotional rollercoaster of breakdowns, power outages, busted refrigerators, and drag races with 18-wheelers, all to hold the next generation of their family.
2022,
Bethany Beeler,
English,
USA,
Full title: "The Well at World’s End: A Fable and A Life" by Bethany Beeler.
"“My transition revealed the flat-out obviousness of my being a woman. Still, I’m stunned that I get to be me after years not knowing who I was, reinforcing in my flesh 3,500 years of patriarchy. Of course, then, the best way to tell this is through a fable … about a rabbit.”
Author, artist, and baker, Bethany A. Beeler ran from a thousand enemies through years of presenting as a man. Then, she found magik when she plumbed the fault lines of her life to discover the Well at World’s End. It’s not the apocalypse, but an invitation to our true selves and to learn that though the world teems with enemies who would kill you, they first have to catch you."
2023,
Bethany Beeler,
English,
USA,
Full title: "TransQuality: How Trans Experience Affirms the World (The Trans Chronicles - Part 2)" by Bethany Beeler.
"It’s the way of Quality that something not your own must give way to something that is. Yet, mine was 50 years in coming, and telling you my convoluted path to TransQuality to help you embrace your Quality is the goal of this book.”
“Do I regret spending puberty poisoned by testosterone and most of my adulthood trying to be something I wasn’t? Hell, yes. None of that was merely in my head. My encounter with the world was as an endless pinball doomed to banging and crashing awake all the bells and lights I couldn’t see or hear except by the wreckage in my wake.
2021,
Bethany Beeler,
English,
Full title: "How to NOT Know You’re TRANS: A Memoir of the Unknown Trans Person and How A Marriage Survived and Thrives Through It (The Trans Chronicles - Part 1)" by Bethany Beeler.
"What's it like to be a trans woman? Even crazier, what's it like to NOT KNOW you're trans for your first 50+ years? It's a rollercoaster of joy, heartbreaking sadness, difficult trials and transformations, and tons of comic relief - like any life … but with the twist of coming of age in a world that still seems not ready for trans folk to hit prime time. Bethany's memoir of how she and her marriage have survived and THRIVE is what it means to be human."
2019,
Bethany Beeler,
English,
USA,
