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: "Roland, Gloria, Diane et moi" (Roland, Gloria, Diane and I) by Peggy Guex.
No pretenses, no self-pity, no regrets. Just the captivating story of an extraordinary life course, the testimony of a deliciously complex and definitely singular being. An astonishing journey between Switzerland, France, Morocco, Lebanon, Netherlands, Italy and so many other lands on the lands of fire of audacity where lukewarmness is foreign. Happiness, strokes of fate. Peaks and abysses, drunkenness and vertigo, burning and ice.
"Roland, Gloria, Diane, and me": behind this title, one soul and only one, a melting pot of entangled personalities, inseparable, united forever, colorful. A strange kaleidoscope of disturbing facets of a protean creature that knew, at all costs, to free itself from constraints and conventions... Then, at the end of the road, beyond the mirrors, after a thousand twists and turns, finally, the conquest of her freedom as a woman and a tremendous desire to live, again.
2014,
French,
Peggy Guex,
Original title: "Chassée du Paradis, rescapée de l'enfer" (Driven out of paradise, escaped from hell)
"It all begins with a pampered childhood of a cherished son, so much desired by a father who demanded to have a boy. Adolescence follows a terrible course of obstacles in the face of the misunderstanding of others, the violence of society, betrayals, and tragedies.
And finally, thanks to the miracles of surgery, comes the time to become a woman. A journey punctuated by intense happiness and harsh strokes of theatre, the destiny of Peggy Guex, born Roland, turns out to be a whirlwind of prodigious adventures that questions us: what is the difference? What do you really decide in a lifetime?
She could boast dazzling music-hall pseudonyms: Gloria Paname, Diana Santiago... She would act, defying convention, fear, and danger. Today, at 64 years old, she testifies to tell her truth and tell us about her absolutely atypical journey. To all of us without exception, without exclusion."
2011,
French,
Peggy Guex,
