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: "Her Name Is Alice: A new 2025 memoir exploring grief, love and the transgender experience, from the mother of Alice Litman" by Caroline Litman.
Her Name Is Alice is a poignant memoir by Caroline Litman, sharing the heartrending journey of her daughter Alice’s life, transition, and untimely death. This deeply personal account sheds light on the challenges faced by transgender individuals and their families.
Alice Litman died by suicide in May 2022 at the age of 20, after waiting nearly three years for her first appointment at a gender identity clinic. Her prol
2025,
Alice Litman,
English,
USA,
Full title: "Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy Seal's Journey to Coming Out Transgender" by Kristin Beck and Anne Speckhard.
Kristin Beck’s Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy SEAL’s Journey to Coming Out Transgender, co-authored with Anne Speckhard, is a raw and deeply personal memoir that provides a rare glimpse into the life of a highly decorated Navy SEAL navigating the complexities of gender identity. The book is both an account of Beck’s distinguished military career and an exploration of the emotional and psychological turmoil she faced before embracing her true self. &
2013,
English,
Interview,
Kristin Beck,
USA,
Full title: "It Gets Better . . . Except When It Gets Worse: And Other Unsolicited Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me" by Nicole Maines."Nicole Maines knows a little something about “happily ever after”—not just because she’s a self-professed expert in the Disney princess canon, but because she’s lived it. After coming out at an early age, her family had not only to educate themselves, but also those around them as they fought and won a landmark court case in the state of Maine before she graduated high school. She made it into college, got the guy, and finally had The Surgery. She achiev
2024,
English,
Nicole Maines,
USA,
Full title: "Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us" by Jennifer Finney Boylan."What is the difference between men and women? Jennifer Finney Boylan, bestselling author of She's Not There and co-author of Mad Honey with Jodi Picoult, examines the divisions--as well as the common ground--between the genders, and reflects on her own experiences, both difficult and joyful, as a transgender American. Jennifer Finney Boylan's She's Not There was the first bestselling work written by a transgender American. Since its publication twenty years ago, she has become the go-to person for ins
2025,
English,
Jennifer Finney Boylan,
USA,
Full title: "Maybe This Will Save Me: A Memoir of Art, Addiction and Transformation" by Tommy Dorfman."From filmmaker, writer, producer and actor Tommy Dorfman—currently starring in Broadway's Romeo + Juliet—comes a beautifully written, bracingly original memoir, structured through the profound revelations of a single tarot card reading, chronicling her troubled teen years, the highs and lows of her creative career, and her journey to self-acceptance
On a hot summer day, twenty-eight-year-old Tommy Dorfman was enjoying a beautiful outing on a boat. But inside she felt unmoored. After a
2025,
English,
Tommy Dorfman,
USA,
Full title: "Body Lessons: A Trans Memoir of Joy (The Trans Chronicles - Part 3)" by Bethany Beeler."For 50 years, I slogged through life, starved for some magic to rescue me. Nothing I did was ever enough. So, I grasped at anything that didn’t reek of unworthy me. Then I named myself and unleashed magic. Welcome to my life, marriage, family, friendships, and creative work, as well as some stories about coming out - a life lived both in soft places and hard, ravaged, gritty neighborhoods of the soul.Join award-winning author, Bethany A. Beeler on her journey from pain to power, from fear to f
2022,
Bethany Beeler,
English,
USA,
Full title: "TransCountry: A Trans Journey Across America (The Trans Chronicles - Part 4)" by Bethany Beeler."You own a 50-year-old VW Camper that’s eight years younger than you. Your newborn grandson’s in Boston, while you live in Colorado. Of course, you drive cross-country with your wife.
Oh, yeah - you’re also trans. Join Bethany and Pam on a heartland journey as they test their sanity and 35 years of marriage against an emotional rollercoaster of breakdowns, power outages, busted refrigerators, and drag races with 18-wheelers, all to hold the next generation of their family.
2022,
Bethany Beeler,
English,
USA,
Full title: "The Well at World’s End: A Fable and A Life" by Bethany Beeler."“My transition revealed the flat-out obviousness of my being a woman. Still, I’m stunned that I get to be me after years not knowing who I was, reinforcing in my flesh 3,500 years of patriarchy. Of course, then, the best way to tell this is through a fable … about a rabbit.”Author, artist, and baker, Bethany A. Beeler ran from a thousand enemies through years of presenting as a man. Then, she found magik when she plumbed the fault lines of her life to discover the Well at World’s End. It’s not the apocalypse, but an
2023,
Bethany Beeler,
English,
USA,
Full title: "Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir" by Zoë Bossiere."A stunningly written literary memoir about gender-fluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that captures the author’s experience growing up in a trailer park outside of Tucson, Arizona.We meet Zoë as an 11-year-old moving through a world of giant beetles, thundering javelinas, and gnarled palo verde trees. Although Zoë lacks the vocabulary to express it, they experience life as a trans boy, spending summers running in a pack of other sunburnt hoodlums and school years fending off classmates’ intrusive questions ab
2024,
English,
USA,
Zoë Bossiere,
Full title: "Timeless Dance: A Story of Change and Loss" by Karen Shiffman Lateiner."TIMELESS DANCE: A Story of Change and Loss, is just that - a compelling memoir about life, death, gender change, acceptance, advocacy, and coping within the family, the community, and the world. It is a well told story of generational challenges and reflections on life altering events; a skillfully woven mix of narrative, prose, poetry, and letters. A page turner by many accounts, Timeless Dance illuminates issues not often contemplated, especially those related to transgender and gender non-conforming indivi
2018,
English,
Karen Shiffman Lateiner,
USA,
Full title: "Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back" by Julia Serano."The author of landmark manifesto Whipping Girl exposes the violent ways we are all sexualized–then offers a bold path for resistance.
Feminists have long challenged the ways in which men tend to sexualize women. But pioneering activist, biologist, and trans woman Julia Serano argues that sexualization is a far more pervasive problem, as it’s something that we all do to other people, often without being aware of it.
Why do we perceive men as sexual predators and women as sexual objects?Why are LGBT
2022,
English,
Julia Serano,
USA,
Full title: "The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir" by Rossi."This is Rossi’s wild, queer coming-of-age story. Rossi was taught only to aspire to marry a nice Jewish boy and to be a good kosher Jewish girl. At sixteen she flowers into a rebellious punk-rock rule-breaker who runs away to seek adventure. Her freedom is cut short when her parents kidnap her and dump her with a Chasidic rabbi―a “cult buster” known for “reforming” wayward Jewish girls―in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.Rossi spends the next couple of years in a repressive, misogynistic culture straight out of the nineteenth century, f
2024,
English,
Rossi,
USA,
"Disidentes de género: la nueva generación" is the Spanish language edition of "Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation" by Kate Bornstein."Transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again, and today’s trans and nonbinary people, genderqueers, and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being.Edited by the original gender outlaw, Kate Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers - n
2019,
Interview,
Kate Bornstein,
Spanish,
USA,
Full title: "Rock ‘N’ Roll Resurrection!!! Queenage Baby & Beyond: The Authorised Biography of Jayne County" by John Wombat."This book presents the life and career of rock ‘n’ roll and punk music’s first-ever trans artist, the pioneering Jayne County. Growing up in a small and rigidly conservative town in Georgia, Wayne Rogers found herself welcomed into the drag scene of Atlanta before heading for New York after the trauma of being shot at by a local redneck. The underground creative scene of New York accepted Wayne, and she soon appeared onstage as part of Jackie Curtis’ play ‘Femme Fat
2020,
English,
Jayne County,
John Wombat,
USA,
Full title: "Man Enough to Be a Woman" by Jayne County, published in 1995 and republished in 2021."Born in rural Georgia in 1947, Jayne moved to New York and became part of the 60s art scene surrounding Andy Warhol's Factory. Jayne's story follows the arc of LGBT liberation in the US - she came of age living hand-to-mouth, faced off against police at Stonewall and came out as a trans woman while she was touring Europe with her band.She went everywhere and met everyone and lived to tell the tale.
Man Enough to Be a Woman is the funny, fierce memoir of Jayne's extraordinary journey, now includi
1995,
2021,
English,
Jayne County,
USA,
Full title: "Forward!: Thoughts of a Trans Woman on the Christian Journey" by Lynn Elizabeth Walker."While there are many books containing essays on "ordinary" life from a spiritual or religious perspective, there are only a few with a perspective grounded in the trans identity. Moreover, a number of books for or about trans people have to do with the "exceptional" aspects of life of individual trans folks. This book offers the perspective of a trans-identified clergy member in gaining greater understanding of ordinary life, seen through the specific lens of her lived experience. Forward
2023,
English,
Interview,
Lynn Elizabeth Walker,
USA,
Full title: "Tonacity: The Tona Brown Story" by Tona Brown."This book is a collection of interview transcriptions designed to share the life and story of Tona Brown, a transgender musician of color. In working to build this book, St. Louis writer and musician Chris King conducted dozens of interviews with Tona. In the span of four years, they compiled nearly eight hours of interview transcriptions. These transcriptions are reproduced for you here, having been edited for clarity and flow only; no original content has been removed.""The conversation is supplemented with quotes from, and narrati
2023,
English,
Interview,
Tona Brown,
USA,
Full title: "The Spectrum of Sex" by Hida Viloria and Maria Nieto."This transformative guide completely breaks down our current understanding of biological sex and gender diversity.
Introducing readers to seven variations of human sex, commonly considered intersex, the book challenges the myth that sex and gender are exclusively binary and explores the inherent diversity of biological sex and its relationship to gender identity and expression, and the impact this has on society.""Examining historical, linguistic and socio-cultural understandings of sex and gender, as well as genetic and scie
2020,
English,
Hida Viloria,
Maria Nieto,
USA,
Full title: "Foggy Googles: A sequel memoir to 'Do you know who I once was'" by Cami Richardson."Foggy Googles is a sequel memoir to my first book called 'Do you know who I once was.' In my discussions with my editor on the first book, she suggested I leave out many of my stories and memories about my firehouse years, my amazing wife Teri, my ski career and entrepreneurial years and try to focus the book on my transition to that of being a transgender woman. I agreed and I believe that first book helped me move forward in reaching my personal mission goal of educating and enlightening others
2022,
Cami Richardson,
English,
Interview,
USA,
Full title: "Pas De Deux: A Transgender Memoir" by Rachel Miyoko Conlin-McLeod."A self-reflective memoir of Rachel Conlin-McLeod's journey of self-discovery, realization, and transition. It is an exploration of gender identity and expression, the struggles of finding one's true sense of genuine identity and the joys and pains of being a transgender girl.""Pas de deux. A duet typically between a male and female
pair of dancers, as in classical ballet. In my case, a ballet between the young boy who tried to be a man, and a young girl, trying to be a woman. A duet between my past self as David a
2023,
English,
Rachel Conlin-McLeod,
USA,
