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.

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Sally Anne Douglas - Hormones and Me: The complete answer...

Full title: "Hormones and Me: The complete answer book for the TV or TS who contemplates taking female hormones" by Sally Anne Douglas. 
The book is the first Do-It-Yourself guide on feminization hormones.

In "Doctors Who?: Radical lessons from the history of DIY transition" Jules Gill-Peterson writes: "In a 1971 column for the newsletter New Trends, Sally Ann Douglas, a trans woman embedded in an especially well-connected social network, remarked that “everywhere I go these days, I bump into gals who seem to be getting hormones from somewhere” - somewhere other than a doctor’s office, that is. Calling it a trend, she wrote that “most of them seem to be pursuing a ‘do-it-yourself’ program of experimentation with various formulations” of estrogen on the market. Trans women often wrote into such newsletters looking for advice on this subject, but Douglas, like many of her peers, dismissed DIY approaches as reflecting a lack of courage - being too “shy” to go to a doctor - rather than problems of finances and gatekeeping."

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