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.
Original title: "Les chevaux de frise couraient sur l'hippodrome" (The Frisian horses ran on the hippodrome). The book was the first autobiography written by Ovida Delect.
A transsexual teenager, under the Nazi occupation, brought up in a religious college for boys, in Caen, questions the conditions she has to undergo... Autobiography of a former deportee-resistant, tortured at the age of 17 years old, founder of a youth resistance group. She contrasts the concrete or conceptual hells with a living infinity of flowers, dresses, and stars.
According to Wikipedia, Ovida Delect (1926-1996) was a French poet, politician, and member of the French resistance during the Second World War. In February 1944 she was arrested by the Gestapo for being a member of the National Front, a movement created by the French Communist Party (PCF). She was tortured and deported to a German concentration camp.
1994,
French,
Ovida Delect,
Original title: "La prise de robe, itinéraire d'une transsexualité vécue" (Dressing up, route of a lived transsexuality). The book was the first autobiography written by Ovida Delect.
According to Wikipedia, Ovida Delect (1926-1996) was a French poet, politician, and member of the French resistance during the Second World War. In February 1944 she was arrested by the Gestapo for being a member of the National Front, a movement created by the French Communist Party (PCF). She was tortured and deported to a German concentration camp.
After the war, she finished her university education and became a writer. In 1952, she met her future wife Huguette, a kindergarten teacher from Sarthe. They had a son, Jean-Noel. In 1953, Ovida read about the transition of Christine Jorgensen in the press and recognized the similarity between their lives. At the beginning of the 1960s, Delect, under her birth name Jean-Pierre Voidies, became mayor of Freneuse, a small town in Île-de-France. She transitioned socially into a female at the age of 55 and continued to live with Huguette Voidies, her wife, and their son in Saint Pierre Alizay. She died on 9 October 1996.
1982,
French,
Ovida Delect,
Original title: "La Vocation d'être femme: itineraire d'une transsexualité vécue" (The Vocation to be a woman: itinerary of a lived transsexuality) by Ovida Delect.
"It starts with a kid who has a kid's body and the audacity of a hero. It continues with a sixteen-year-old boy who knows he is a girl, who has strong convictions and freedom in mind. Then the war of 1940 shakes the world and the teenager who dresses as a girl in the secrecy of closed rooms, finds himself facing the Gestapo. Rather strange fate for the woman, born a man, who will spend her life simply saying: "I am not who you believe".
"At the same time, artist, fighter, teacher, and mayor, in the midst of the worst torments, in torture, the concentration camp, as well as after, in normal life, the unifying bond, the carrier, the deep substance that makes it possible to take everything, the atrocious suffering as well as the male disguise, it is poetry."
1996,
French,
Ovida Delect,
