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: "Just Julia: The Story of an Extraordinary Woman" by Julia Grant. Her first biography "George and Julia" was published in 1980.
"In 1981 George Roberts underwent a sex-change operation and became Julia Grant, but after emergency treatment things started to go drastically wrong. Beginning with a traumatic childhood of abuse, prostitution and crime, culminating in a series of prison sentences, and then following the futile attempts to come to terms with a male body, this book goes beyond the New English Library publication "George and Julia", and recounts what happened after the unsuccessful operation.
Julia tells how her theatrical career took off, and then was destroyed; how she left Britain for Amsterdam; and how she finally returned to the stage in a cabaret act, "The Bitch is Back". The book highlights the difficulties faced by transsexuals in Britain, and includes lists of useful addresses and help-lines."
"The operation was broadcast on television, making Julia Britain's most
famous transexual. But that was only half the story. Now, with a new series of films and chis autobiography, Julia tells the whole truth. about life before and after surgery. In 1980 George
Roberts took the biggest step of his life. He became Julia Grant."
1994,
English,
Julia Grant,
UK,
Full title: "George and Julia" by Julia Grant.
"Julia Grant (1954-2019), who was born as George Roberts, has died aged 64. Grant was the first "transsexual", as trans people were then called, to publicly share her story on television, and changed the way Britain viewed transgender people in the 1970s.
In five-hour-long film documentaries which were aired as the BBC Two series A Change of Sex, her story gripped the nation, with nearly nine million viewers watching the first episode, "George and Julia", in 1979. The films, intimate, frank and observational, were shown between then and 1999, as new episodes unfolded in her story."
1980,
English,
Julia Grant,
UK,
