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.
"Lynne's Diaries is the paperback that was published prior to the e-Books: Book 1 and Book 2. It tells the story of a young boy's school days followed by almost forty years of service in the Royal Air Force. Then finally having to face up to reality and the birth of "Lynne" The book is no longer available as it was "Remaindered" by the publisher (Vanity Press)."
Lynne Janine Braithwaite was born Lawrence James Braithwaite on the 1st of July 1934 in the village of Near Sawrey about halfway between Hawkshead and the Ferry across Windermere in the Lake District. What more could one want than to be born into such idyllic surroundings.
She attended Hawkshead school and left at the age of 15 years to join the RAF as a "Boy Entrant" and signed the dotted line on 27th September 1949. Demob day was the 1st of July 1989 followed by divorce on the 4th of July 1989.
2000,
England,
English,
Lynne Janine Braithwaite,
UK,
Full title: "Diaries of a Transfemale: Book 2".
This is the second part of "Diaries of a Transfemale". The first part was published in the same year because Lynne's e-publisher deemed the original book (almost 800 pages) to be too big for an e-book. So Lynne agreed to split it into two books.
"The author was born Lawrence James Braithwaite on the 1st of July 1934 in the village of Near Sawrey about halfway between Hawkshead and the Ferry across Windermere in the Lake District.
What more could one want than to be born into such idyllic surroundings.
She attended Hawkshead school and left at the age of 15 years to join the RAF as a "Boy Entrant" and signed the dotted line on 27th September 1949.
Demob day was the 1st of July 1989 followed by divorce on the 4th of July 1989."
2002,
England,
English,
Lynne Janine Braithwaite,
UK,
Full title: "Diaries of a Transfemale: Book 1"
"This is a follow on from "From Brigands to "V" Bombers and tells the story in diary format of the transition to "Lynne" (12th May 1989-31st December 2001). I have, like my father, always kept diaries. It has allowed me to, over the years, take a rational look backward and see where my life has taken me.
The reader can take a look into the first 60 years of my life as told in "From Brigands to V Bombers" in which I told of my youth in the Lake District (N W England) followed by the best part of 40 years in the Royal Air Force.
With the momentous change in my lifestyle (that in my inner self I knew to be inevitable), the writing of my diaries became essential to enable me to try and make some sense of what, at this time in my life was happening to me.
2002,
English,
Lynne Janine Braithwaite,
