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.
"Lånat Kön" (Borrowed Gender) is the Swedish language version of "Mauvais genre" (Wrong Gender) by Chloé Cruchaudet.In the early 20th century, amidst the chaos of World War I, Paul and Louise shared a deep love for one another. Their bond was unshakable until the horrors of war forced them apart. As the war escalated, Paul found himself trapped in the nightmarish reality of the trenches. Unable to bear the relentless violence, he made a desperate decision to flee — becoming a deserter, a man hunted by his country. With the help of his wife Louise, Paul managed to escape the frontlines, s
2019,
Chloé Cruchaudet,
Swedish,
Original title: "Nästan i mål!: en komisk transition" (Almost There!: A Comic Transition) by Olivia Skoglund.The comic is a unique depiction of an ongoing gender transition told with lightness, dark humor and cartoonish drawings. "Why do you want to be a girl? It sucks to be a girl!!!"Olivia argues with herself about biology, norms, ideals of beauty and gender identity. She lies on the sofa of a psychologist and talks about her upbringing, about her everyday life as a trans woman and compulsively tells comical anecdotes about her life.
2020,
Olivia Skoglund,
Swedish,
Original title: "Att Leva Som: En Bok Om Att Leva Som Transperson Och Som Partner Till En Transperson" (Living as: a book about living as a transgender person and as a partner to a transgender person) by Helena Lindström."The book contains powerful stories of transgender people about their own lives as and in relation to a transgender person. It also addresses the scientific aspect of being transgender and provides some practical advice and tips for transgender people. At the end of the book, there is also a list of addresses to various organizations.What drives some people to live as the opp
1999,
Helena Lindström,
Swedish,
"README.txt" is the Swedish language edition of "README.txt: A Memoir" by Chelsea Manning."While working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq for the United States Army in 2010, Chelsea Manning disclosed more than seven hundred thousand classified military and diplomatic records that she had smuggled out of the country on the memory card of her digital camera.In 2011, she was charged with twenty-two counts related to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military records, and in 2013, she was sentenced to thirty-five years in military prison. The day after her conviction, M
2023,
Chelsea Manning,
Swedish,
"Nattdjur" (Nocturnal animal) is the Swedish language edition of "Las malas" (The Bad Girls) published in Argentina in 2019 by Camila Sosa Villada.From the Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada, a book of love and affection: when we finish the last page, we want the whole world to read it too! When she arrived in the city of Córdoba to study at the university, Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada decided to go to Parque Sarmiento during the night. She was scared to death, thinking that the brutal verdict she had heard from her father could come to fruition at any moment: "One day they will kno
2021,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
Swedish,
Original title: "Kroppslinjer: Kön, transsexualism och kropp i berättelser om könskorrigering" (Body Lines: Gender, Transsexualism, and the Body in Narratives of Gender Reassignment) by Signe Bremer.In 1972, Sweden was the first in the world to legislate on state-funded care for people in need of gender reassignment, which in an international perspective was considered radical. However, it is not until July 2013 that the requirement that a person must be an unmarried and sterile Swedish citizen to change legal gender is deleted from the law, which means the end of the forced sterilizations th
2011,
Signe Bremer,
Swedish,
"Hej grymma värld: 101 alternativ till självmord" is the Swedish language edition of "Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other Outlaws: 101 Alternatives to Teen Suicide" by Kate Bornstein."Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it.
Here, Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival in an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside
2011,
Interview,
Kate Bornstein,
Swedish,
USA,
Original title: "Claes och Sara: Det är bara jag - jag är transvestit" (Claes and Sara: It's just me - I'm a transvestite) by Katia Wagner.Sara Lund is a leading figure among transvestites in Scandinavia.
Until a month ago, no one except the closest family knew that she is Claes Schmidt on a daily basis: "I have been terrified of being exposed all my adult life. It's over now. I'm a transvestite and I'm not ashamed. It is incredibly nice to be responsible for that.” The book is a report that was originally published on September 14, 2003 in Sydsvenskan.
KATIA WAGNER is an investigative
2017,
Crossdressing,
Katia Wagner,
Sara Lund,
Swedish,
Original title: "Janna: ett liv i två världar" (Janna: A life in two worlds) by Eva Lie.The book is the story of a gender transition. In vivid images, photographer Eva Lie depicts her friend's arduous path from being Jan to becoming Janna. Identity, the struggle to be yourself and the longing for love are topics highlighted in the book.The first photos in the book were taken in the mid-1990s when Eva and Jan lived next door in Stockholm. A strong friendship grew that made it possible for Eva Lie to follow her friend several years later in the long and complicated process of correcting her gen
Original title: "I mitt namn: En bok om att vara trans" (In my name: A book about being trans) by Moa-Lina Olbers Croall.The book is based on interviews with trans people – everything from young people in middle school and high school to role models such as actress and winner of the Award for Best Female Lead Role in 2015 - Saga Becker, stage poet Yolanda Bohm and head of school and former principal Lina Axelsson Kihlblom, who came out as trans in Skavlan in the autumn of 2015.The book also contains facts about trans and tips for anyone who is transgender. It's a book for young people ponderi
2016,
Lina Axelsson Kihlblom,
Moa-Lina Olbers Croall,
Saga Becker,
Swedish,
Yolanda Bohm,
Original title: "Att våga blomma ut: Att få leva ifred i sin egen identitet är långt ifrån en självklart" (Dare to blossom: Being allowed to live in peace in one's own identity is far from given) by Milla Johansson.Milla lived with a male identity for 40 years. But something was wrong. At first, it was mostly a longing that she didn't understand. In her younger teens, she began to understand what it was all about and from about the age of 20-25 and up to 40 life became more and more unbearable as she forced herself to live in a male identity while wanting to live as the woman she knew herself
2019,
Milla Johansson,
Swedish,
"Jag är Jazz" is the Swedish language edition of "My name is Jazz" by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings (2015). A nice book for children with the story of Jazz Jennings."From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boy's clothing.This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way. Jazz's story is based on her real-life experience and she tells it in a simple, clear way that will be appreciated by pic
2015,
Jazz Jennings,
Jessica Herthel,
Swedish,
"Mörkrummet" (The Dark Room) is the Swedish language edition of Susan Faludi and Patricia Piolon's bestseller "In the Darkroom".Let me quote the 2016 article from The New York Times: ""In the Darkroom" is Faludi's rich, arresting and ultimately generous investigation of her father, who died in 2015. It is partly an inquiry into the meaning of gender, a subject Faludi, the famous feminist, sees very differently from Stefánie, who hewed to traditional notions of masculinity and femininity both as an overbearing patriarch and as a coquettish old woman.""But in trying to understand her inscrutabl
2017,
Stefánie Faludi,
Susan Faludi,
Swedish,
Original title: "Jag kom inte ut: Jag blev mig själv" (I didn't come out: I became myself) by Ann-Christine Ruuth.""I want to write a cohesive story that's not just about 'what did your kids say?' or how it went to be told at work. It will, of course, be an autobiography, but I want to bring in other perspectives and broaden the content.How is it possible, after a life as a man for over 50 years, to start living as a woman without being questioned or even laughed at? What this then meant in a clerical, ecclesiastical context where such persons were not even in the imaginary world also has its
2022,
Ann-Christine Roxberg,
Ann-Christine Ruuth,
Ester Roxberg,
Swedish,
"Sötvatten" is the Swedish language edition of "Freshwater" by Akwaeke Emezi.I liked Gina Maya's review a lot, so let me quote her: "Transgender narrative this may be, but it's far removed from Western, U.S.-based definitions in spite of its primary location in the U.S. The story follows the young life of Ada, a Nigerian child who travels to America to study, but her whole life involves psychical interaction with the indigenous spirits who vie for control of her. Is Ada Ogbanje too? By the end, she appears to embrace this self-conception as an offspring of the Universal Creator Ala, visu
2000,
Akwaeke Emezi,
Nigeria,
Swedish,
Original title: "Min pappa Ann-Christine" (My dad Ann-Christine)In 2010, a 58-year-old priest and father of three Åke Roxberg came out as Ann-Christine and since then has lived as a woman. This is his daughter Esther's story of what happens when you suddenly have a father named Ann-Christine. No one was prepared for the hobby-making priest and father of three, Åke Roxberg, to change his life, least of all the family.Ester Roxberg writes about losing a parent, who still remains in a different guise. She tries to understand and accept, hides her wrath, puts puzzles with her recollections. She r
2014,
Ann-Christine Roxberg,
Ann-Christine Ruuth,
Ester Roxberg,
Swedish,
Full title: "Jag har ångrat mig" (I've changed my mind).Today, in Sweden, you can become a woman or a man legally without having to undergo sterilization and gender reassignment. But that wasn't the case when Vanessa López was a 17-year-old boy. Therefore, she then chose to begin the treatment that would correct the body to the soul. For the choice to undergo physical gender reassignment, she has paid a heavy price.In the book, Vanessa talks about the methods she had to resort to become the woman she is today. How, as a minor teenager, she ended up on the street where a single misstep could l
2014,
Swedish,
Vanessa Lopez,
Original title: "Kommer du tycka om mig nu?" (Will you like me now?)According to Wikipedia, Lina Axelsson Kihlblom is a Swedish politician for the Social Democratic party, the minister for schooling in Magdalena Andersson's cabinet, and the first transgender cabinet minister in Swedish history. She transitioned in 1995. During her transition, she studied and graduated with a Candidate of Law, and learned foreign languages.She worked in Brussels with European Union law, and in the Swedish school system. After discussing her leadership of Ronna School in Södertälje on a Swedish Educational Broa
2015,
Lina Axelsson Kihlblom,
Swedish,
"Mitt liv" (My Life) is the Swedish language edition of The Secrets of My Life by Caitlyn Jenner.Caitlyn Marie Jenner is an American media personality, politician, and transgender activist. She came out as transgender in 2015, as she was previously famous as a male athlete, and a decathlon specialist in the 1970s under the identity of William Bruce Jenner, winning the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and improving the world record in the discipline three times consecutively from 1975 to 1976. Jenner underwent gender reassignment surgeries performed by surgeons Gary Alte
2017,
Caitlyn Jenner,
Swedish,
This is the Swedish language edition of "Tula: My Story" by Caroline Cossey. The full title: "Mitt liv: den gripande berättelsen av en kvinna som föddes som man" (My Life: The Gripping Story of a Woman Born a Man).She is one of the most iconic figures in the history of the transgender movement. She is also one of my biggest inspirations.Caroline Cossey is a British model who often worked under the name Tula, which she also used for two memoirs. She appeared in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. Following her appearance in the film, she was outed as transgender by the British tabloid
1992,
Caroline Cossey,
Swedish,
Tula,
