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: "La torre de marfil 2: Experiencias de una niña transsexual" (The Ivory Tower: Experiences of a Transsexual Girl 2) by Ernesto Rubio Sánchez.
"This second part of "La torre de marfil" invites the reading public to fully delve into the development of the central character's life, accompanying her from her childhood to her adulthood in the midst of the Movida Madrileña and in a time marked by discrimination where there was no concept of transsexuality and all sexual behavior towards the same gender was synonymous with AIDS.
Within this medium, our character will try to assert her right to live as she perceives herself. Can she make it? And if so, in an environment that will demand her courage, conviction and militancy, will she enjoy the same rights as everyone else or will she continue to be a second-class citizen? However, this fight does not end on the last page of this installment; In the next one, titled Ramón is my daughter, the characters and their stories will mature, always trying to manage their lives in a society that, despite proclaiming itself progressive, still hides the prejudice of a divided world."
2022,
Ernesto Rubio Sánchez,
Spanish,
Original title: "La torre de marfil: Experiencias de una niña transexual" (The Ivory Tower: Experiences of a Transgender Girl) by Ernesto Rubio Sánchez.
Antonio Manuel, a ten-year-old boy, feels like a girl. In 1983, a decade still anchored in the animosity of Franco's repression, living inside a male body is a daily ordeal for him. Suppressing his desire for toys, clothes and ways to be considered as a girl bring him behavior problems in an educational system, lacking in pedagogy and in a home with parents and a sister who does not accept him as a girl.
His life is a constant struggle to be and pretend to be in a society that offers no response other than discrimination and rejection. Can he overcome the obstacles? Will he find someone with an open mind who understands him and helps him come up with a solution? Accompany Antonio Manuel in his fight to overcome the mental rigidity of a time when being "different" was synonymous with pariah.
2016,
Ernesto Rubio Sánchez,
Spain,
Spanish,
