Transgender Biographies

Basilia Loren - Secret Tear: Beginning Stage of Life

Full title: "Secret Tear: Beginning Stage of Life" by Basilia Loren.

My promise to "Jesus" and understanding my message. I realize the Lord has allowed me to experience, endure and witness a great deal by protecting me all these years. My message is to enlighten society by using my past as an example of belief, faith, and wisdom.

The greatness of good is a gift from God. Evil is a powerful force of nature. Society will use the phrase, "It's human nature" as an excuse for any wrongdoings towards anyone who has an identity crisis. But, is it human nature or just an evil act of malice behavior depending on the person?

My opinion is goodness in people's hearts is being de-sanitized by the strength of evil only if allowed. Be "real" to yourself by being yourself. Having faith will carry you through the challenges of life. Remember, "An anger mind is the devil's workshop". I always say, "Great people who represent good may pay the ultimate price on earth. But, the Lord's reward is life everlasting spirit in heaven". - Silia Loren-

Original title: "Sex-Schimbare. Putere. Identitate" (Sex - Change. Power. Identity) by Daria Jane.

The first book in Romania that follows the social, medical, and legal aspects of the male-to-female transition. A book that deals with sexuality in all its forms, talking about feminism, monogamy, and fluidity.

Daria Bulzan, also known as Daria Jane, was born Darius Bulzan on June 15, 1998, in Romania. She is a celebrity YouTube star. She studied marketing at the University of Bucharest. Before she came out as a transgender woman at the age of 16, still as a boy, she took part in the Romanian version of Got Talent, a British talent show TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCOtv company. She impressed the talent show jury with her contortionist show, a dance full of twists and bends and unnatural positions.

Full title: "Frissons au Carrousel" (Chills at the Carrousel) by Marie-Pierre Pruvot.

Coccinelle was a living legend. She owed it to her beauty, her overflowing femininity, her incomparable brilliance both in the city and on the stage. Her character imposed herself by another aspect: she was "something never seen before".

The anecdote shows her in a difficult moment when she thinks she is losing face by following her own principles of wisdom... But her petulance takes over, her instinct makes her triumph. Everything happens in Marseille. This is an opportunity to evoke the famous Alcazar, a monument of the music-hall, which does not exist anymore.

Full title: "Becoming The Woman I Want: Real-life insight into a transgender's worries, pains, hopes and joys in carrying out vaginoplasty" by Angela R. Vigil.

"A brave transgender lady's frank and endearing narrative about how she underwent vaginoplasty and changed into the woman she had always wanted to be. With the help of her parents, Mirabelle made the transition to being a female at a young age. When Mirabelle was 19, she underwent gender confirmation surgery (vaginoplasty) as part of her physical transition.

Mirabelle reflects on her experiences and how they have influenced who she is in this outstanding memoir. But it wasn't always simple. Mirabelle faced numerous obstacles, but she persisted and now shares her experiences with others. Her mother has been by her side the entire time, making the transition from male to female much simpler than for others without family support."

Original title: "Le Choix de Juliette" (Juliette's Choice) by Juliette Jourdan.

It's about Juliette, her roommate, her girlfriends, Tours, her mother, a cat (her name is Marilyn), femininity, what it means: being a woman, becoming a woman (if you can do it), how and why.

Juliette is twenty years old and lives in Tours, a transsexual, transgender capital of France. Her student life is comparable to that of an average student: she lives in a roommate with a girlfriend, shops with her mother, flirts, works to pay for her studies and rent, parties, and prepares her bachelor's thesis.

Apart from these small notable originalities, inherent in the character and the trans environment in which Juliette is brought to evolve, she is "normal". It is with sincerity and sensitivity that the author tells us about her life, partly fictionalized, and testifies to the chaotic journey of any teenager.

Original title: "Gender libera tutt*. Storie vere per amare, capire e fare la rivoluzione" (Gender frees all. True stories to love, understand and make the revolution) by Camilla Vivian.

"My fight for transgender rights started with a pink t-shirt with a unicorn: my daughter wanted to wear it and I just didn't understand why a male couldn't do it. Trying to defend this right made me start studying and understanding what gender identity really is. But the thing that helped me the most on this trip was meeting so many transgender people, of all ages and nationalities. Each with their own history and peculiarities just like anyone: people, however, who live in a society that not only does not foresee them, but that to date still seems to have no intention of accepting them. Just think of the endless discussions for the inclusion of the expression "gender identity" within the DDL Zan and that shameful applause when it was scuttled.

Full title: "Transgender History" by Susan Stryker.

"Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events.

Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-’70s to 1990—the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; and the gender issues witnessed through the ’90s and ’00s."

Original title: "Orgullo travestido: Egmont de Bries y la repercusión social del transformismo en la España del primer tercio del siglo XX" (Transvestite Pride: Egmont de Bries and the social impact of transformism in Spain in the first third of the twentieth century) by Juan Carlos Usó Arnal.

The fascinating life of the transformist Egmont de Bries, the star of female impersonation in the Spanish scene of the 20s of the last century, and where heteronormativity was sanctioned by law as the only valid social model, gives rise to reflect on the past, present and future of gender identity and condition. He died sadly, fané and detached, in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. Famous in his time, De Bries died in the most pitiful vulgarity, attended by charitable friends at the last minute. The book is illustrated with 80 images of great documentary value, in many cases of surprising beauty.

Original title: "Das Land der 300.000 Ladyboys: Alles über Thailands Transgender-Kultur" (The Land of 300,000 Ladyboys: All About Thailand's Transgender Culture) by Clemens Maria Albert.

While discussions about all forms of LGBTQIA+ have flared up in Western countries, the third gender has a long tradition in Thailand. The number of "ladyboys", as transgender people are called in Thailand, is increasing year after year in the "Land of Smiles". Thai society has become more enlightened and open, not least due to the Internet, and more and more young men feel encouraged to "come out" if they believe they were born in the wrong body. Experts estimate that in a survey, up to 300,000 Thai men would state "female" as gender. Statistically, every twentieth of the 20- to 30-year-old Thais is transgender.

Full title: "Tall Annie: A Life in Two Genders" by Anne Marie Graham.

"As a young male, Anne Graham became a Vietnam Veteran while serving in the U. S. Navy on a nuclear submarine. She opens with an incredible true story of her submarine’s rescue of a downed aircrew in the middle of a typhoon.

This is a story of how a transgender person came to be that way, and how they dealt with it while remaining a very productive and accepted member of society. Anne lays out her life from her formative years, through her time as a loving father and husband, and finally to the person she is now, a devoted and loving wife.

Original title: "Roland, Gloria, Diane et moi" (Roland, Gloria, Diane and I) by Peggy Guex.

No pretenses, no self-pity, no regrets. Just the captivating story of an extraordinary life course, the testimony of a deliciously complex and definitely singular being. An astonishing journey between Switzerland, France, Morocco, Lebanon, Netherlands, Italy and so many other lands on the lands of fire of audacity where lukewarmness is foreign. Happiness, strokes of fate. Peaks and abysses, drunkenness and vertigo, burning and ice.

"Roland, Gloria, Diane, and me": behind this title, one soul and only one, a melting pot of entangled personalities, inseparable, united forever, colorful. A strange kaleidoscope of disturbing facets of a protean creature that knew, at all costs, to free itself from constraints and conventions... Then, at the end of the road, beyond the mirrors, after a thousand twists and turns, finally, the conquest of her freedom as a woman and a tremendous desire to live, again.

"README.txt. La mia storia" is the Italian 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, Manning declared her gender identity as a woman and began to transition, seeking hormones through the federal court system. In 2017, President Barack Obama commuted her sentence and she was released from prison."

"Bad Girls" is the US 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 knock on this door to warn me that they found you dead, thrown into a ditch." For him, this was the only possible destination for a boy who dressed as a woman.

Original title: "Om Så falt brikkene på plass" (Then the pieces fell into place) by Marion Arntzen and Kari Kahrs.

The purpose of the book is to disseminate knowledge about gender identity and gender expression in order to contribute to greater openness and humanity in all of us. It happens through very personal life stories. Some talk about the difficult time in primary school, others talk about what it is like to become a mother and later in life to become a man.

They talk about grief and love, what it feels like to be a boy when the girl's body reaches puberty with breasts and menstruation. Maybe you think that it can't be that hard to be a boy born as a girl. You just have to dress masculine?

Original title: "Invertidos. Los Verdad, justicia y reparación para gais y transexuales bajo la dictadura franqui" (Invested. Truth, justice and reparation for gays and transsexuals under the Franco dictatorship) by Geoffroy Huard.

In 2019, the Barcelona City Council, headed by Ada Colau, filed a complaint against the Franco regime for crimes against humanity against LGBT people. This book reworks and expands the report written by historian Geoffroy Huard to accompany the complaint. It shows, thanks to the archives of the courts of vagos and thugs and dangerousness and social rehabilitation, that "inverted" and "homosexuals" were categories used by the Francoist authorities as a kind of catch-all in which any sexual deviation and especially gender deviation (effeminate, transvestite, transsexual, prostitute, etc.) fit.

Full title: "How to be a woman, though male" by Virginia Prince.

The best review of this book was presented in "Pioneers of Transgendering: The Life and Work of Virginia Prince" by Dave King, Department of Sociology, University of Liverpool, and Richard Ekins, Transgender Archive, University of Ulster at Coleraine Gendys Conference, so let me quote it.

"How to be a Woman though Male" immediately draws attention to the distinction between sex and gender which Prince underlines at various points in the book as well as in a dedicated chapter. The book is primarily a guide to changing gender for the femmiphile, and includes a wealth of information about women's clothing, make-up and so on, of thirty years ago. Some of this information is extremely detailed; there are, for example, five pages devoted to shoe styles, three to hosiery and one to gloves."

Full title: "Female Force: RuPaul" by Michael Troy.

"Don't be a drag, just be a queen. We break new ground again with big heels in it's latest offering in the popular Female Force Series focusing on RuPaul. RuPaul is easily the most famous drag queen and self-described "Supermodel of the World."

This whimsical look at the life and times of the host of the popular Logo series "RuPaul's Drag Race" is as unique as the woMan himself. It is a must have for any collector's closet-- or shelf rather."

According to Wikipedia, RuPaul Andre Charles (born in 1960) is an American drag queen, television personality, actor, musician, and model, known for producing, hosting, and judging the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race. RuPaul has received several awards, including Primetime Emmy Award, GLAAD Media Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, Billboard Music Award, and a Tony Award, and has been dubbed the "Queen of Drag".

Original title: "Una vita da donna" (A Life of a Woman) by Letizia Muratori.

Doris Wishman was a less famous director than Ida Lupino, but also a very prolific professional in years when, for a woman, it was not easy to be. Pragmatic and determined, when she could not find money to direct one of her legendary B-movies, she dedicated herself with the same application and the same disenchantment to selling dedicated objects in a sex shop. Wishman's story is little known that needed to be told, also because it helps to understand how sex and gender have a variable geometry, often for reasons very different from those we imagine.

Zoe, for example, another figure we meet on these pages, has lived as a man for sixty-two years and decides to face the male-to-female transition very late. She is driven by a legitimate, subtle, and very strong desire: to see at least a stretch of life that had always been told to coincide with the one she lives.

Original title: "Le ventre des volcans" (The Belly of Volcanoes) by Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay.

The Belly of Volcanoes is the result of more than five years of writing and rewriting. Understanding love, loving beyond love, these are mysteries that this book tries to elucidate.

This collection is an intimate portrait of universal struggles: to free oneself from daily anxieties, to deal with one's obsessions, to survive the falls to better recover in the righteousness of the waking day, to live one's life as honestly as possible. In this book, the author tackles heavy themes with a disconcerting sensitivity and a palpable, neurotic vulnerability.

Full title: "Transvestites and Transsexuals: Mixed Views" by Deborah Heller Feinbloom.

"The author, a sociology graduate student, gained her entry into the curious world of transvestites in 1968 on the strength of her friendship with a teaching colleague, Phil, recently dismissed after being discovered in flagrante cross-dressed as Helen. For eight months, Feinbloom did fieldwork at the weekly gatherings of a strictly heterosexual organization established for the relief of anxiety over ""dressing""-- meetings which sometimes included wives and girl friends trying to adjust to behavior their men consider ""normal"" if compulsive.

Later she established a Gender Identity Service in the Boston area and widened her horizons to include transsexuals who were no longer satisfied by merely appearing in public in female attire, but were determined to ""pass,"" even marry, as full members of the sex they biologically ain't. Feinbloom is pleading for tolerance for this stigmatized minority who contend they are neither ""deviant"" nor ""perverted""-- who are in fact in all other ways unusually conservative in opinions and lifestyles."

Original title: "Gala" by Joan Trinidad.

A graphic novel that tells the day-to-day of Gala, a girl who is first a person and then many other things. The story is dedicated to Leelah Alcorn, the young transsexual who took her own life because of the difficulties posed by this situation and whose case became known when her farewell letter was public on social networks.

Original title: "Mijn vrouw was nooit een meisje: Transgender notities" (My wife was never a girl: Transgender notes) by Janis Wagemans.

Renate Stoute wrote an autobiographical novel in the late nineties about her transition from man to woman. Her partner Janis Wagemans also wrote about that beautiful, but often frustrating road to completion. In search of her (bisexual) identity, she mainly embraces her lesbian coming out, in a period when Renate is still 'locked down'.

"In 1997, I started writing about my love's transition. What that meant to me as a boy girl who had just come out of the closet twenty years earlier. When she became physically more and more 'locked', my gaze and desire opened up more. It offered additional challenges in our almost symbiotic relationship, in which there was no place for real cheating."

Full title: "Tipsy Tango: A Biography" by Gina Gatto and Anna Russell.

The book presents the story of Serena Bell (called Anna Russell in the book), the former ladies' bowling club president in Australia. Born as Kim Durant in 1944, she was married to a fashion model, fathered two children, became a motorcycle cop, ran a sex fantasy service, was president of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle club, and then had a sex change.

She was pictured in a national bikie magazine with her tattoo body art and married a Sydney man. As Serena Bell, she became the president of a ladies' bowling club. Her story was published in the Fraser Coast Chronicle, the day before the launch of her biography.

Original title: "Quand j'étais petit garçon" (When I was a little boy) by Galia.

Queen of Parisian nights (Carrousel, Palace, Alcazar, Queen), Galia tells for the first time her childhood... of a little boy like no other. This is the drama of Domino, a little boy with fine features born in Marseille in the fifties, and whose immoderate penchant for his mother's falbalas has a bad effect in the heart of Le Panier, a district where half-tones do not exist, where men must be taciturn and virile, and women more than sensual.

But he chose his clan. He does not like violent games, the warrior spirit of his comrades, preferring the company, the outfits, and the delicacy of the girls. The feminine universe fascinates him; He is convinced that it is his. But how to live it, admit it, say it? Can the ugly duckling become another creature? One of those black swans that his schoolmistress reveals to him one day?

Original title: "Eva. Il prezzo dell'ambizione. La ricerca dell'amore nonostante tutto, oltre il pregiudizio" (Eva. The price of ambition. The search for love despite everything, beyond prejudice) by Eva Carieri.

“Intolerance, drugs, sex, and violence in an Italy no one has ever talked about enough. The search for love despite everything, beyond fear, beyond prejudice.” With this powerful line, Eva Carieri introduces readers to her autobiographical novel Eva. Il prezzo dell’ambizione, a deeply personal and unflinching exploration of what it means to be a transgender woman in a society that still struggles to accept difference.

Born in Palermo in 1980 and now living in Bologna, Eva Carieri is more than an author, she is a multifaceted artist: actress, presenter, and fashion icon. She began her career as a transgender model, breaking boundaries in the world of fashion and media. In 2016, she posed for Globus magazine in Croatia, an act that was seen as a groundbreaking moment for transgender visibility in mainstream European media. Alongside her modeling and acting work, she has written for international blogs on medicine and surgery, a field she has long been passionate about. Today, she also hosts a Fashion Web TV and regularly appears at artistic events.

Full title: "Inside out: An Australian collection of coming out stories" by Erin Shale.

"An anthology of real life stories from the Australian gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. Drawn from a wide range of experiences, cultural backgrounds and age groups, the collection explores the challenges and rewards of finding a way out of the closet and living a life of truth and integrity... Contributors include Monique Brumby, Dorothy McRae-McMahon, Sue-Ann Post, Bob Brown, and Ian Roberts."

"One of the most important achievements of adolescence and a crucial step towards becoming a happy, productive adult, is the process of identity formation. This involves defining who you are, what you value, and the direction you choose for your life. This search for self is becoming increasingly difficult for many young people, as is evidenced by the current record levels of substance abuse, depression, deliberate self-harm, and suicide.

Original title: "Si te viera tu madre: Activismos y andanzas de Claudia Pía Baudracco" (If Your Mother Saw You: Activism and Adventures of Claudia Pía Baudracco) by María Marta Aversa and Matías Máximo.

The story they never told you about one of the most important people in Argentina of LGBTIQ+ activism. The life of Claudia Pía Baudracco, La Gorda, was a whirlwind of impulses that spilled seeds in dozens of activisms: repeal of police edicts, gender identity, access to comprehensive health, cannabis culture, and human rights were some of the issues that obsessed her.

After finding out about the activist movement in Europe, in 1993 she founded, together with María Belén Correa, the Association of Transvestites, Transsexuals, and Transgenders of Argentina, the first T space that achieved representation throughout the country. Claudia Pia also lived the vicissitudes of a community that for many years was left out of "official history", having the Police section as the only possible destination.

Original title: "Mein langer Weg zur Frau: endlich so leben, wie es meine Seele schon immer verlangte" (My Long Road to Woman: Finally living the way my soul has always demanded) by Claudia Redeker.

Since my early adolescence, I had the feeling of being different from what was expected of me. The feelings could not be suppressed. I was ashamed of it and couldn't talk about it with other people out of fear. I understood at some point that I am transgender. That is, I have always been mentally a woman imprisoned in a male body. It was already in my cradle and thus an unchangeable part of me. The suppressed feelings made me sick. At the lowest point of my life, I gave in to the desires of my soul and began my transformation into a woman.

Since then, I feel reborn and can finally be a happy and healthy person. I want to encourage people who find themselves in similar situations as mine so that they too can find their way to happiness. My book should also help to understand why there are people who stand between the sexes and how they can be shown understanding. It is certainly not an easy subject. I, therefore, try to explain the connections, terms, and technical terms as far as possible.

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Basilia Loren - Secret Tear: Beginning Stage of Life

Daria Jane - Sex-Schimbare. Putere. Identitate

Marie-Pierre Pruvot - Frissons au Carrousel

Angela R. Vigil - Becoming The Woman I Want

Juliette Jourdan - Le Choix de Juliette

Camilla Vivian - Gender libera tutt*. Storie vere per amare...

Susan Stryker - Transgender History

Juan Carlos Usó Arnal - Orgullo travestido: Egmont de Bries...

Clemens Maria Albert - Das Land der 300.000 Ladyboys

Anne Marie Graham - Tall Annie: A Life in Two Genders

Peggy Guex - Roland, Gloria, Diane et moi

Chelsea Manning - README.txt. La mia storia

Camila Sosa Villada - Bad Girls

M. Arntzen & K. Kahrs - Om Så falt brikkene på plass

Geoffroy Huard - Invertidos. Los Verdad, justicia y reparación...

Virginia Prince - How To Be a Woman, Though Male

Michael Troy - Female Force: RuPaul

Letizia Muratori - Una vita da donna

Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay - Le ventre des volcans

Deborah H. Feinbloom - Transvestites and Transsexuals

Joan Trinidad - Gala

Janis Wagemans - Mijn vrouw was nooit een meisje

G. Gatto & A. Russell - Tipsy Tango: A Biography

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Eva Carieri - Eva. Il prezzo dell'ambizione

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