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: "Madame le Maire" (Madam Mayor) by Marie Cau.
I am the first trans woman elected in the Republic. In the 2020 municipal elections, the voters of Tilloy-Lez-Marchiennes, a small village in the north of France on the Belgian border, chose to entrust me with their votes.
Did my trans identity weigh in this vote? Did anyone vote for me because I was trans? Did others exclude me automatically because of transphobia? Maybe. But I know today that, for the vast majority of the inhabitants, it does not matter.
I have worked all my life to ensure that I am not seen solely through the prism of my trans identity. I wanted to run for office and have people vote for me and for my ideas.
I succeeded, but it was a long road.
2022,
France,
French,
Marie Cau,
Full title: "J'inventais ma vie" (I invented my life).
This is Bambi's first book. Bambi is the stage name of Marie-Pierre Pruvot, also known as Marie-Pier Ysser, a French author, dancer, singer, cabaret artist, and transgender woman, born Jean-Pierre Pruvot on 11 November 1935, in Les Issers, Algeria. After having been the cabaret star of the 1950s and 1960s, she resumed her French literature studies and became a professor of Modern Literature in 1974, and devoted herself to writing autofiction (notably as Marie-Pier Ysser).
Jean-Pierre spent his childhood and adolescence in Algeria, growing up in both a rural and urban world, enjoying nature and farm animals, much more than school. When he was 10 years old, his sister, whose clothes he liked to wear, died. His father dies 4 years later. Jean-Pierre Pruvot then lived in a feminine environment, reading a lot, sewing and embroidering. He feels that neither his first name nor his gender matches him.
2003,
Bambi,
France,
French,
Georges Burou,
Marie-Pier Ysser,
Marie-Pierre Pruvot,
Full title: "Marie parce que c'est joli" (Marie because it's pretty)
"Marie-Pierre's book is the authentic chronicle of a little boy who felt like a little girl, a little girl who became a woman, and a woman who, by dint of tenacity, finds success and meets love.
We follow Marie from her childhood in Algeria to the Carrousel cabaret where she becomes BAMBI, Coccinelle's friend, and the headliner of the show for twenty years.
We follow Marie because she knows how to tell us the simple and exhilarating story of a "transition" that upsets her love and triggers her interest in the university education that leads her to another profession, national education, where she obtains the academic degree and especially the recognition of her former students."
2007,
Bambi,
Christine Jorgensen,
Coccinelle,
France,
French,
Georges Burou,
Lili Elbe,
Marie-Pier Ysser,
Marie-Pierre Pruvot,
Michel Marie Poulain,
Roberta Cowell,
