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: "Auf nach Casablanca?: Lebensrealitäten transgeschlechtlicher Menschen zwischen 1945 und 1980" (Off to Casablanca? Realities of life of transgender people between 1945 and 1980) by Sabine Meyer.
The anthology describes the realities of life of trans* people from different perspectives and systems, during National Socialism, in the FRG and GDR. Milestones and obstacles are analysed and enrich the picture with the experiences of trans* people from 1945 to 1980.
Transgender people have always been part of the LGBTI community and are closely linked to the history of Berlin. However, we still know far too little about their experience. This part of history is therefore hardly known to date.
100 years ago transgender people tried to get support at the Institute for Sexual Sciences, founded in 1919 by Dr.
Magnus Hirschfeld to provide psychosocial support and medical help. Even then, they fought for legal recognition of their gender identity. The so-called “transvestite certificate” provided
for example, a certain level of protection and acceptance
in everyday life.
2019,
German,
Sabine Meyer,
Original title: "Wie Lili zu einem richtigen Mädchen wurde: Lili Elbe: Zur Konstruktion von Geschlecht und Identität zwischen Medialisierung, Regulierung und Subjektivierung" (How Lili became a real girl: Lili Elbe: On the Construction of Gender and Identity between Medialization, Regulation and Subjectivation).
"Interwoven into new narratives, the character »Lili Elbe« is currently experiencing a renaissance in popular culture. However, it already became a projection screen for public negotiations of gender and identity during the Weimar period.
Supposedly born as a man and surgically transformed, Elbe became a symbol of modern medicine in 1931: perfect hermaphrodite and the first technologically created woman at the same time. Through its media presence, it also figures as a prism for discourses regulating subjectivity. Sabine Meyer's transdisciplinary study takes a comprehensive look at the complex relationships behind the projection for the first time and opens up new and critical perspectives for the historiography of trans*."
2015,
German,
Lili Elbe,
Sabine Meyer,
