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: "Mijn vrouw was nooit een meisje: Transgender notities" (My wife was never a girl: Transgender notes) by Janis Wagemans.
Renate Stoute wrote an autobiographical novel in the late nineties about her transition from man to woman. Her partner Janis Wagemans also wrote about that beautiful, but often frustrating road to completion. In search of her (bisexual) identity, she mainly embraces her lesbian coming out, in a period when Renate is still 'locked down'.
"In 1997, I started writing about my love's transition. What that meant to me as a boy girl who had just come out of the closet twenty years earlier. When she became physically more and more 'locked', my gaze and desire opened up more. It offered additional challenges in our almost symbiotic relationship, in which there was no place for real cheating."
2022,
Dutch,
Janis Wagemans,
Renate Stoute,
René Stoute,
Original title: "Uit een oude jas vol stenen: de geboorte van een vrouw" (From An Old Coat Full of Stones: The birth of a woman) by Renate Stoute.
In the book, Renate Stoute sheds light on the history of support for the transgender community in the Netherlands, the solidarity, the disinterest from the feminist camp, the discrimination, the coming out of trans women and the slowly changing attitude of the outside world. But above all, she tells the harrowing history of her own identity.
1999,
Dutch,
Renate Stoute,
René Stoute,
Original title: "Oefeningen in dapperheid: Biografie van René/Renate Stoute" (Exercises in bravery: Biography of René/Renate Stoute)
"In his desire to escape the petty bourgeois existence of his parents, René Stoute (1950-2000) began to use opium and later heroin. He paid for it with money he obtained by breaking in and forging checks. In prison, he discovered himself as a writer.
In 1982 she published "On the Back of Dirty Swans", the iconic collection of stories about the junkie existence that won the Golden Donkey's Ear as the best-selling debut. Unfortunately, she didn't just struggle with drug addiction. Since her earliest childhood, she felt that deep down she was a woman. It wasn't until she turned 40 that she dared to perform a sex-changing operation that she hoped would make her happy."
2022,
David de Poel,
Dutch,
Renate Stoute,
René Stoute,
