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.
Full title: "Transitional: My Story" by Munroe Bergdorf."Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition - a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are. As time goes on, we all develop as people. We all transition. It's what unites us, not what separates us. In this life-affirming, heartfelt and intimate book, activist and model Munroe Bergdorf shares reflections from her own life to illustrate how transitioning is an essential part of all our lives.
2024,
English,
Munroe Bergdorf,
UK,
Full title: "Becoming Us: The inspiring memoir of transgender joy, love and family AS SEEN ON LORRAINE" Jake Graf and Hannah Graf"This is the inspiring and moving memoir of a couple in search of a normal family life. And in many ways that have found that: married, in careers they love and parents to two beautiful children. But their journey there has been an extraordinary one. Becoming Us is the inspiring and at times heart-breaking memoir of Jake and Hannah Graf, the UK's most visible transgender couple and family. We follow their extraordinary paths towards the 'normality' they have al
2023,
English,
Hannah Graf,
Jake Graf,
UK,
Full title: "Sugar And Spice" by Abi Austen."Sugar and Spice is the true story of the first and only female Parachute Regiment officer in the British Army. Dismissed from service for being transgender after a decade of decorated service, Abi Austen has gone on to become a top international diplomat and representative for the trans community. Her deeply moving autobiography tells her hard scrabble journey of self-realisation from a broken childhood of abuse and neglect.""She reflects on the culture wars, the discrimination and hatred she has faced, and the lessons she has drawn from a life of
2023,
Abi Austen,
English,
Northern Ireland,
UK,
Full title: "Jan Morris (Writers of Wales)" by Paul Clements."This is the first full-length study of Jan Morris, one of Britain's foremost travel essayist and popular historians. It takes a critical look at a unique writer who after spending more than forty years as a man, underwent a sex-change in the 1970s and became a woman.The book outlines Morris's early life and education as James. It focuses on his early journalistic career when in 1953, as The Times correspondent, he took part in the British conquest of Everest and scooped the world with his reports. Morris's writings span nearly fift
1998,
English,
Jan Morris,
Paul Clements,
UK,
Wales,
Full title: "A Tale of Two Lives: A funny thing happened on the way to the Palace" by Helen Dale."Having grown up as a RAF Brat and keen scout, dreaming of being a pilot in the RAF, she concealed a secret for decades before accepting, in 1998, that she needed to transition.
Losing one job as a consequence, she joined Greater Manchester Probation in 1999. As the first openly trans employee nationally she provided awareness training for probation and prison staff and others and became the de facto lead on trans issues.She persuaded the then Lesbian and Gay staff association to extend its membe
2021,
English,
Helen Dale,
UK,
Full title: "Transition Denied: Confronting the Crisis in Trans Healthcare" by Jane Fae."Trans people in the UK currently face widespread prejudice and discrimination, from how they are described in the media to the lack of healthcare support they receive. This institutional bias is illustrated by the tragic case of Synestra de Courcy, who died following neglect and rejection from the NHS, leading her to sex work to fund her transition and dangerous self-medication.""Charting Syn's life from childhood through to her untimely death aged just 23, Jane Fae exposes the gross institutional and soc
2018,
English,
Jane Fae,
Synestra de Courcy,
UK,
Full title: "Hello world, I'm Amy Kate" by Amy Kate Carter."Imagine waking up every day in a body and a gender that doesn't feel right. For forty-two years, this was my life. Pain, misery and depression were all I knew. Any vague semblance of a smile on my face was fake, there only to appease the people present at the time.Gender dysphoria, and consequently being transgender, is not a choice any sane individual would make. The only real choice is how to deal with it. I faced a choice of fight to survive or leave this world in a ball of flame. I was born a boy, but as I grew it became clear to
2021,
Amy Kate Carter,
English,
UK,
Full title: "Gender Pioneers: A Celebration of Transgender, Non-Binary and Intersex Icons" by Philippa Punchard."This inspiring collection of illustrated portraits celebrates the lives of influential transgender, non-binary and intersex figures throughout history. Showcasing the diversity of gender identities and expressions that have existed in all cultures alongside developments from recent years, the extraordinary stories in this book highlight the achievements and legacies of those who have fought to be themselves, whatever their gender. From activists, soldiers and historical leaders thr
2022,
English,
Philippa Punchard,
UK,
Full title: "Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition" by Munroe Bergdorf."Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition—a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are.
As time goes on, we all develop as people. None of us ever becomes someone else entirely—regardless of how we identify - but nor do we stay the same forever. We all transition. It's what binds us, not what separates us.In Transitional, activist and writer Munroe Bergdorf dra
2023,
English,
Munroe Bergdorf,
UK,
Full title: "Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere" by Jan Morris."Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. Here, her thoughts on a host of subjects - ships, cities, cats, sex, nationalism, Jewishness, civility and kindness - are inspired by the presence of Trieste, and recorded in or between the lines of this book. Evoking the whole of its modern history, from its explosive growth to wealth and fame under the Habsburgs, thr
2002,
English,
Georges Burou,
Jan Morris,
UK,
Full title: "In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary" by Jan Morris."'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.'So begins this extraordinary book, a collection of diary pieces that Jan Morris wrote for the Financial Times over the course of 2017.
A former soldier and journalist, and one of the great chroniclers of the world for over half a century, she writes here in her characteristically intimate voice - funny, perceptive, wise, touching, wicked,
2019,
English,
Georges Burou,
Jan Morris,
UK,
Full title: "Allegorizings" by Jan Morris."Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary life, witnessing such seminal moments as the first ascent of Everest, the Suez Canal Crisis, the Eichmann Trial, The Cuban Revolution and so much more. Now, in Allegorizings, published posthumously as was her wish, Morris looks back over some of the key moments of her life, and sees a multitude of meanings.""From her final travels to the USA and across Europe to late journeys on her beloved trains and ships, from the deaths of her old friends Hilary and Tenzig to t
2021,
English,
Georges Burou,
Jan Morris,
UK,
Full title: "Release the Beast: A Drag Queen's Guide to Life" by Bimini Bon Boulash."Bimini Bon Boulash captured hearts and minds on both sides of the Atlantic as the gag-inducing, death-dropping, plant-based breakout star of RuPaul's Drag Race UK Season 2. Not only did she make us laugh and cry, she showed us how to develop a Positive Mental Attitude and live happily and healthily outside society's idea of "normal."Telling the story of how drag took her from the brink of self-destruction to the mainstage, as well as life lessons drawing on convention-breaking icons from Kate Moss to Katie Pr
2021,
Bimini Bon Boulash,
Drag queen,
English,
UK,
Full title: "Half Him Half Her: When do I get to be ME" by Stephanie Rachael Vaughan."Gender, what is it exactly? It has often been said that Gender is who you go to bed 'as', whereas Sexuality is who you go to bed 'with'. But what happens if you are born 'intersex' and sit somewhere in between male and female; a situation made more complex if your parents conceal that fact from you? And what to think when you learn, more than five decades later, that you had modifying surgery when you were born?""Half Him Half Her is a heartfelt portrait beginning with the birth of Robin, to farming parents,
2021,
Australia,
English,
Stephanie Rachael Vaughan,
UK,
Full title: "The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice" by Shon Faye."Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of the country's population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarised 'debate', which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which trans people themselves are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful voice.In this powerful new book, Shon Faye reclaims the idea of the 'tran
2021,
English,
Shon Faye,
UK,
Full title: "Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender" by Kit Heyam."Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives.""Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers
2023,
English,
Kit Heyam,
UK,
Full title: "It's About Time: Poems of an Uncertain Woman" by Lesley Storm.""I’m a woman. I support them. I’m bisexual. I support them. I’m a feminist. I support them. I endure regular abuse for being trans. I support them. I am called a “poof” by the unenlightened. I support them. My name is Lesley, and I'm a woman ― that is to say that I am human, just like you, and you like me. A meditation on the passing of time, a declaration that life, love and poetry are defined by time, are all about time and timing. Here are love poems, life poems, elegies, aubades, odes, existential solitude poems,
2020,
English,
Lesley Storm,
Scotland,
UK,
Full title: "Becoming Lisa" by Lisa Kelly."An inspiring memoir of overcoming fear and living your life in the open. A sincere and honest account of the transition to, and living your life as, your true self. A book about small town homophobia and bullying of those who do not fit in. Becoming Lisa is the incredible emotional roller coaster journey from Dave, a shy boy, bullied throughout his life to becoming Lisa, a strong-willed determined independent woman campaigning against hate and bigotry to help others along their path to living their life as they wish and without fear.""As Dave, Lisa s
2018,
English,
Lisa Kelly,
UK,
Full title: "Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows" by Christine Burns."Over the last five years, transgender people have seemed to burst into the public eye: Time declared 2014 a 'trans tipping point', while American Vogue named 2015 'the year of trans visibility'.
From our television screens to the ballot box, transgender people have suddenly become part of the zeitgeist. This apparently overnight emergence, though, is just the latest stage in a long and varied history. The renown of Paris Lees and Hari Nef has its roots in the efforts of those who struggled for equality before
2018,
Christine Burns,
English,
UK,
Full title: "Bodyshock: Truth About Changing Sex" by Liz Hodgkinson."Transsexualism is not a new phenomenon: male-to-female sex changes are mentioned in the literature of Ancient Greece and Rome. But only in the last forty years or so has medical science been able to achieve what those who feel they have been 'born into the wrong body regard as the only thing that will give them peace of mind, a full surgical sex change. In this investigation into the who, how and why of sex changes, Liz Hodgkinson tells the stories of some fascinating cases, some famous, others entirely unpublicized.Gl Georg
1987,
English,
Liz Hodgkinson,
UK,
