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: مروری بر زندگی تراجنسیتی ها (A Review of Transgender Life) by Mehri Shahhosseini.
"This book contains information received from transgender people and experts in this field, and it is about the situation of people whose internal gender identity is in conflict with the gender they were assigned at birth; Therefore, they always think about how to make changes in their body to achieve the desired sexual characteristics, according to their soul and spirit.
To put it more simply, transgenders are people who have a healthy soul in a body that they do not consider to be their own, which leads to a constant conflict between their soul and body. These people always think that their souls are in captivity of a body that does not belong to them, and this contradiction imposes an unfair struggle on their lives."
2022,
Iran,
Mehri Shahhosseini,
Persian,
Full title: "Transcultural" by Minou Bahrami.
"Transcultural describes the author’s experiences as the mother of a transgender woman and a dual British Iranian national.
The book explores the prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community across Iranian and British cultures as well as on a political level in Iran.
The author’s journey to Thailand with her trans daughter in the course of Gender Affirmation surgery is related with humour and much affection."
"The inspiration for this book was the author’s desire to protect her daughter against transphobia by promoting love and understanding for the trans community.
Examples of Persian poetry have been used in the book to convey the author’s deepest feelings about certain situations and to demonstrate to the reader, the vast range of topics covered in Persian literature."
2023,
English,
Iran,
Minou Bahrami,
Full title: "Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran".
"Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of law, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine became invested in distinguishing between the acceptable "true" transsexual and other categories of identification, notably the "true" homosexual, an unacceptable category of existence in Iran.
2013,
Afsaneh Najmabadi,
Iran,
