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: "Getting Back to Me: from girl to boy to woman in just fifty years" by Scottie Jeanette Madden. In 2017, Marcy Madden, Scottie's wife, published her own book about her relationship with Scottie - "Just Because My Husband's A Woman...".
Scottie Jeanette Madden is no stranger to survival. For decades, she thrived as one of television’s most respected adventure showrunners, producing and directing for Discovery and the History Channel in some of the harshest and most dangerous environments on earth. Her résumé reads like a survivalist’s dream (or nightmare): leading über-male productions into the wilderness, demanding impossible feats from her teams, and earning her reputation as the ultimate alpha adventurer. But behind that façade, Scottie was fighting for her own survival, waging a lifelong, internal battle for her soul.
Her memoir, Getting Back to Me: From Girl to Boy to Woman in Just Fifty Years, captures that battle in real time. Drawn from her personal journals, the book documents the gut-wrenching, liberating, and often humorous process of coming out as a transgender woman after five decades of living as “one helluva guy.” With honesty and vulnerability, Scottie reveals what it meant to finally dismantle the walls of denial she had so carefully constructed and embrace her truth as a woman.
Scottie’s story begins in contradiction. To her family and colleagues, she embodied every traditional marker of masculinity: a husband for twenty-five years, the only son, the protective big brother, the legendary uncle, and the fearless survivalist who commanded dangerous sets across the globe.
2015,
English,
Marcy Madden,
Scottie Jeanette Madden,
When we think of storybook marriages, we often imagine two people whose love endures life’s challenges unshaken, wrapped in an aura of fairy-tale perfection. For over twenty years, that is exactly how friends and family saw Scottie and Marcy Madden. He was the husband Marcy had always dreamed of: passionate, romantic, spiritual, generous, funny, loving, and even skilled in the kitchen.
After three failed marriages, she had finally found her match, the partner who seemed to love her with the same intensity she loved him. But as with so many fairy tales, there was a twist.
One morning, Scott came out to Marcy as transgender. Her “perfect husband” revealed that he had always been a woman trapped in a man’s body. For Marcy, this revelation was not simply a fact about Scott, it was an earthquake that threatened to shatter the foundations of her identity, her marriage, and her sense of self. How do you continue to love when your entire framework of love has been upended? That is the question at the heart of Marcy Madden’s deeply moving memoir, Just Because My Husband’s a Woman…: Marcy’s Side of the Story.
2017,
English,
Interview,
Marcy Madden,
Scottie Jeanette Madden,
