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: "On The Science of Changing Sex: A Layman’s Guide to Transsexuality and Transgenderism (Understanding Transsexuality)" by Kay Brown.
"Ten years in the making, well researched, pulling together peer reviewed science and personal experiences, On The Science of Changing Sex explains the deeper, less known, aspects of transsexuality and transgenderism. Sure to spark controversy, it delves deeply into the hidden world and secrets, often suppressed, the public doesn't hear about. This book is NOT the typical "born in the wrong body" transgender story.
The book covers the scientific evidence that there is more than one kind of "transgender", that there are two distinct and non-overlapping etiologies leading to gender dysphoria, a diagnoses that was coined in the early 1970s, yet eschews recently introduced unscientific constructs such as "sex dysphoria". You will also learn about the way that cross-dressing men develop into autogynephilic transwomen."
2020,
English,
Kay Brown,
Full title: "Rainbow's End: A Parent's Guide To Understanding Transsexual Children And Teens (Understanding Transsexuality)" by Kay Brown.
"Raising children is a sacred trust. But how does one raise transsexual children in an age of disinformation and transphobic propaganda? Kay Brown, herself a former transkid, having been diagnosed as a transsexual as a minor in the early 70's, later to become a foster / adoptive mother, writes with candor of the issues faced by parents of gender atypical and dysphoric children and teens.
Sure to spark controversy, in her book, Kay Brown not only offers insight into the minds of transkids, but also into the vitriol they and their parents face at school and on the internet. She lists the lies found in social media, books, magazines, and counters them with facts gleaned from decades of research and activism aimed at helping transsexual youth live a better life."
2020,
English,
Kay Brown,
Full title: "A Life in Transition (Understanding Transsexuality)" by Kay Brown.
"Before she was a co-founder of the ACLU Transsexual Rights Committee, before she was successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, before she was CEO of a multi-national high tech corporation, she was a homeless teenager, disowned by family, a throw-away street tranny.
A Life in Transition is transsexual activist and author, Kay Brown's personal memoir of her early life, holding nothing back. In it we see what it was really like to being social and medical transition as a teenager in high school in the mid 1970s. It documents that transkids did exist long before our current age of controversy and angst about transsexual children and teens. It chronicles the both those that helped her and those that tried hard to thwart her search for a "good enough life". The book adds depth and context to her two other books in the Understanding Transsexuality series, On the Science of Changing Sex and Rainbow's End."
2023,
English,
Kay Brown,
