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: "TRANScestors Navigating LGBTQ+ Aging, Illness and End of Life Decisions: Generations of Hope" by Jude Patton and Margot Wilson.
"This volume (and the ones that follow) have been in the works for some time. What finally emerges after many months of assiduous advertising, recruiting, editing, and organizing is a volume of intimate, nuanced, and heartfelt stories that reflect the wide diversity in the ways in which trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people have come to recognize, signify, embody, and celebrate their difference as their authentic selves. Moreover, with an increasing emphasis on the experiences of trans youth, elders constitute a routinely overlooked, disregarded, and/or silenced segment of the community."
2020,
Dallas Denny,
English,
Jude Patton,
Margot Wilson,
Rosalyne Blumenstein,
Full title: "Before My Warranty Runs Out: Human, Transgender, and Environmental Rights Advocate" by Joanna (Sister Mary Elizabeth) Clark and Margot Wilson
"Joanna (Sister Mary Elizabeth) Clark is an elder trans woman and advocate. During the 1980s and 1990s, she was an LGBTQ+ activist and speaker. She was the first person to serve as a man in the US Navy and as a woman in the US Army.
Later, as Sister Mary Elizabeth, she was the driving force behind the AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGiS) database. These days, her focus is primarily on environmental activism. 'Before My Warranty Runs Out' is a personal narrative that recounts Joanna’s life experiences."
2021,
English,
Joanna (Sister Mary Elizabeth) Clark,
Margot Wilson,
Full title: "Girl in the Dream: Stephanie (Sydney) Castle Heal, A Transgender Life" by Margot Wilson
"Girl in the Dream is the life story of Stephanie (Sydney) Castle Heal, an advocate, activist and elder in the Canadian transgender community. The outcome of an almost four year collaboration of story-telling, recording, analysis and writing, Girl in the Dream is a first person narrative that depicts in intimate detail Stephanie’s transgender journey.
The title is not only an acknowledgment of a pivotal moment in Stephanie’s young life when at the age of 4½ years old, her gender dysphoria made itself manifest in a dream that stayed in her memory for almost 90 years."
2018,
Canada,
English,
Margot Wilson,
Full title: "Glimmerings: Trans Elders Tell Their Stories" by Margot Wilson.
"Glimmerings is a compilation of stories told by 15 trans elders. Champions exist in every community. These are the courageous, resolute, and independent spirits who defy, disrupt, and challenge the status quo; who remain unwaveringly true to themselves and their principles; who resist, persist, and insist on authenticity; who blaze trails for themselves as well as for those who follow; who create opportunities for understanding, learning, and change in the world.
Glimmerings offers stories of trans, non-binary and Two-Spirit champions, innovators, and trailblazers who came of age in the 1930s to the 1980s, before the age of global communication, at a time when the Internet and worldwide connectivity were still visions of the future; when only inflexible, dichotomous categories of male and female existed."
2019,
Canada,
English,
Margot Wilson,
