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: "Katherine's Diary: The Story of a Transsexual" by Katherine Cummings.
The book was published in 1992 and republished in 2008. In addition, Katherine authored "The Live and Loves of a Transgendered Lesbian Librarian". "In 1986 John Cummings became Katherine Cummings, and a whole life changed. In this painfully honest account of John's transformation into a woman, Katherine tells of years of fantasizing and cross-dressing behind locked doors, of the betrayal felt by her family and the final relief of surgery. Katherine's Diary covers a lifetime of self-discovery and self-destruction told with acerbic wit and crisp observation.
I think that I was irrational, even insane, at the time. My transsexualism had taken hold of me with such obsessive force that I could not concentrate on anything else. There I was, a fifty-year-old professional academic librarian who had desperately wanted to be female ever since memories began."
1992,
2008,
Australia,
English,
Interview,
Katherine Cummings,
Full title: "The Live and Loves of a Transgendered Lesbian Librarian" by Katherine Cummings.
This is the second biography of Katherine Cummings. Her first biography "Katherine's Diary: The Story of a Transsexual" was published in 1992. Katherine Cummings was an icon of the Australian transgender movement, librarian, sailor, activist for transgender people, award-winning author; she worked at Sydney’s Gender Centre – an organization set up in 1983 to help people with gender issues – and was the information worker and edits the Centre’s quarterly magazine Polare.
In 2015, I interviewed Katherine for my blog and this is what she told me about this publication: "The original title of the essay was “The Life and Loves of an XY Woman”, but since then the terms ‘X Generation’ and ‘Y Generation’ have become commonplace and I didn’t want to have the XY of the male chromosome confused with them so I changed the title.
2019,
Australia,
English,
Interview,
Katherine Cummings,
