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.
"Inkognito" is the Slovenian language edition of "Inkognitó" by Tibor Noé Kiss, first published in 2010.
Tibor/Noémi has visited the women's section of a shoe store for the first time. Another customer groaned and called her names, the salesperson complimented the choice of boots and smiled. Tibor/Noémi tried to smile too. That was four weeks ago. Today she would go out into town in boots. But now she sits alone in an armchair with her body, and each hates the other.
Incognito is an impressive depiction of how a football-loving youth finds a stranger in herself and her body. It is a coming-of-age story, a coming-of-the-closet story, and a skilled, frantic novel in its minimalist conciseness about creating one's identity in the cross-pressures of one's own feelings and the surprise and disapproval of the surrounding society.
2019,
Slovenian,
Tibor Noé Kiss,
Original title: "Preden moj mož izgine" (Before my husband disappears) is the Slovenian language edition of "Ennen kuin mieheni katoaa" by Selja Ahava, a Finnish author.
I found this fantastic review: "You may be a woman, but does it need to be seen?"
This is how the Finnish writer Selja Ahava has written in her autofiction novel, where she has written down her thoughts and feelings during the period when her husband suddenly exclaims one day after 10 years of marriage that he has always wanted to be a woman.
Selja Ahava has written her thoughts exactly as they have appeared in her head, and we follow the process from when her husband says it at the kitchen table, until they have to sign the divorce papers, and she has to get used to calling her husband, who has had breast surgery, wears makeup and handbags, changed her social security number and now goes by the name Lili.
2020,
Selja Ahava,
Slovenian,
Original title: "Novo rojstvo: iskrena pripoved o trpljenju, ljubezni in preobrazbi transeksualke Salome Ćuća Žentil" (New birth: an honest story about the suffering, love and transformation of the transsexual Salome Ćuća Žentil).
'An honest confession about the suffering, love, and transformation of transsexual Salome Ćuća Žentil.
Salome. A name that evokes mixed feelings. A person who was born as a man, but wanted only one thing in life - to become a real woman.
She decided to try her luck in Ljubljana. But it was not easy in Slovenia, because being different always brings oppression, ridicule, and even aggression.
Salome resisted social prejudices and took a step that many did not dare.
The support of friends and acquaintances made it possible for Salome to first get breasts, and then finally change her gender with surgery. Giving up, collecting money and enduring pain - everything is written in this incredibly cute and honest confession.'
2009,
Salome Ćuća Žentil,
Slovenian,
Tomaž Mihelič,
"Gender Outlaw is the work of a woman who has been through some changes--a former heterosexual male, a one-time Scientologist, and IBM salesperson, now a lesbian woman writer and actress who makes regular rounds on the TV (so to speak) talk shows. In her book, Bornstein covers the "mechanics" of her surgery, everything you've always wanted to know about gender (but were too confused to ask) addresses the place and politics of the transgendered and interrogates the questions of those who give the subject little thought, creating questions of her own."
1999,
Interview,
Kate Bornstein,
Slovenian,
USA,
