Growing Up Sexually(Bibliographies)

28/Trans-jectories (Bio-Texts of Transsexuality)

Main Index®Index Volume 3 ® Bibliography 28

Compiler’s Notes:

“Between 1952 and the end of the millennium, as many as 100 different transsexual autobiographies were published” (Denny, 2004)[1]. A short list of non-fiction auto/biographical materials is offered here. My personal interest lies in transsexual’s child and adolescent trajectories, that is to say, interactions of ‘cultural’ concepts of “curriculum” and “trajectory” with transsexuals’ adherence or departure from these, for instance in terms of privileging pre-op/post-op ramifications. The experience of puberty/adolescence, for instance, is hypothetically pivotal. Including native cults / stories of “trajectories”, “lives”, “journeys”, I have left out a large amount of materials that do not bring out personal or personalised narrative or discourse.

I am drawing heavily on a web-available bibliography on biography @ Trans-Academics.org. The works by Califia (1997) and Prosser (1996, 1998) review autobiographies. For general bibliographic efforts consider JoAnn Roberts & Dallas Denny’s Annotated Bibliography, Betsy Kruger’s TransBiblio (including a section on ‘Autobiography, Biography, Interviews’), and C. Michael Munson’s (1998) Transgender Bibliography, and one might like to check Ramsay’s GLBTQ Information Site’s coverage of Transgender-Ts/Tv.

Note: this bibliography may be updated monthly.

·        Barbin, H. (1980) Herculine Barbin: Being The Recently Discovered Memoirs Of A Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite. Translated by Richard McDougall. Translation of Herculine Barbin, dite Alexina B. Brighton. [England]: Harvester Press

·        Benjamin, H. & Masters, R. E. L. (1966) The Transsexual Phenomenon. New York: The Julian Press, Inc. [http://www.transgenderzone.com/downloads/ttphenom.pdf]

·        Bentley, R. L. (1993) Dangerous Games: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer on Death Row Who Changed His Sex and Won Her Freedom.New York: Birch Lane Press

·        Beyer, G. & Cathy C. (1999) A Change for the Better: The Story of Georgina Beyer. Auckland / London: Random House New Zealand

·        Boenke, M. (2003) Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones. Hardy, VA: Oak Knoll Press

·        Bolin, A. (1985) In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage. South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc.

·        Bornstein, K. (1994) Gender outlaw: on men, women and the rest of us. New York: Routledge

·        Boyd, Helen. (2003) My Husband Betty. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press

·        Boylan, Jennifer. (2003) She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders. Broadway Press

·        Brevard, A. (2000) The Woman I Was Not Born to Be: A Transsexual Journey. Philadelphia: TempleUniversity Press

·        Brown. M., and Rounsley. C. A. (1996) True Selves. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers

·        Bullough, V.L., & Bullough, B. (1993) Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender. University of Pennsylvania Press

·        Califa, P. (1997) Sex changes: the politics of transgenderism. San Francisco: Cleis Press

·        Cameron, S. (1996) Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits. San Francisco: Cleis Press

·        Colapinto, J. (2000) As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl.New York: HarperCollins

·        Conn, C. (1974) Canary: The Story of a Transsexual.Los Angeles: Nash Publishing

·        Connella, K. (2000) Sugar and Spice and Puppy Dog Tails: Growing up Intersexed: an Intimate Memoir. Booklocker.com [http://www.booklocker.com/books/184.html]

·        Cossey, C. (1991) My Story. Boston: Faber & Faber

·        Cowell, R. (1954) Roberta Cowell's Story by Herself -- Her Autobiography. Melbourne, Toronto, London: W. Heinemann LTD

·        Cummings, K. (1992) Katherine's Diary: The Story of a Transsexual. Melbourne, Australia: William Heinemann

·        Devor, H. (1997) Female-To-Male Transsexuals in Society. IndianaUniversity Press

·        Eriksson, P. S. / Jorgenson, C. (2000) Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography. San Francisco: Cleis Press

·        Evelyn, J. (1998) Mom, I Need to be a Girl. Lindenmuth, Evelyn. Trook Publishing [http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Evelyn/French/Evelyn.F.html]

·        Fleming, M. & Feinbloom, D. H. (1984) Similarities in Becoming: Transsexuals and Adolescents, Adolescence 19,75:729-47

·        Folgerø, T. (2005) Becoming an ordinary girl? Heteronormativity and transgression in transsexual life stories. Heteronormativity - A fruitful concept? June 2. - 4. 2005, NorwegianUniversity of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

·        Garber, M. (1991) Vested Interests: Crossdressing and Cultural Anxiety. New York: Routledge

·        Hausman, B. L. (1995) Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, And The Idea Of Gender. Duke University Press)

·        Hewitt, P. (with Warren, J.) (1996) A Self-Made Man: The Diary of a Man in a Woman's Body. London: Headline Books

·        Hodgkinson, L. (1989) Michael, nèe Laura. London: Columbus Books

·        Howard, K., & Stephens, A. (Eds.) (2000) Out & About Campus: Personal Accounts by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered college students. Los Angeles: Alyson Books

·        Howey, N., & Samuels, E. (2000) Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Parents. New York: St. Martin's

·        Howey, Noelle. (2002) Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine. Picador Press

·        Jay, M. (?) Gerald/ine. OutPost Press [http://www.outpostpress.com/geraldne.html]

·        Johnson, Ch. & Brown, C. w. Wendy Nelson (1982) The Gender Trap: the moving autobiography of Chris and Cathy, the first transsexual parents. London: Proteus Books

·        Johnson, K., & Castle, S. (1997) Prisoner of Gender: A Transsexual in the System. Vancouver: Perceptions Press

·        Jones, A. (1998) All She Wanted. New York: Pocket Books

·        Kaeser, G., Gillespie, P., & Weston, K. (1999) Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Families. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press

·        Kaeser, G., Gillespie, P., & Weston, K. (1999) Transgender Parents and Their Families. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press

·        Kailey, Matt. (2002) Tranifesto: Selected Columns and Other Ramblings from a Transgendered Mind. Xlibris Corporation

·        Kobak, A. (1988) Isabelle: The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt. New York: Alfred A. Knopf

·        Maddok, L. The Sex Life of a Transvestite. [?]

·        Martino, M. (with Harriet) (1977) Emergence: A Transsexual Autobiography. New York: Crown

·        Matzner, A. (2001) 'O Au No Keia: Voices from Hawai'i's Mahu and Transgender Communities. Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris

·        McCloskey, D. (1999) Crossing: A Memoir.Chicago: University of Chicago Press

·        Middlebrook, D. W. (1998) Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin

·        Millot, K. (1991) Horsexe: Essay on Transsexuality. Autonomedia

·        Morris, J. (1974) Conundrum: An extraordinary narrative of transsexualism. New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc.

·        Nettick, G., & Elliot, B. (1996) Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual. New York: Masquerade

·        O'Keefe, T. & Fox, K. (Eds. 2003) Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

·        Prince,V. (1971) Understanding Crossdressing. California, Chevalier Press

·        Prosser J. D. (1996) Transitional matters: the body narratives of transsexual autobiography. PH.D. Thesis, City University of New York, DAI, Vol. 57-10A, p. 4372, 429 pages

·        Prosser, J. D. (1998) Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality. ColumbiaUniversity Press

·        Ramsey, G. (1996) Transsexuals: Candid Answers to Private Questions. Crossing Press

·        Rees, M. (1996) Dear Sir or Madam: The Autobiography of a Female to Male Transsexual. New York: Cassell

·        Richards, R., with Ames, J. (1983) Second Serve: the Renée Richards Story. New York: Stein and Day

·        Rose, D. (2003) Wrapped in Blue: A Journey of Discovery. Living Legacy Press

·         Rowe, R. J. (1997) Bert and Lori: The Autobiography of a Crossdresser.

·        Rudd, P. (1990) Crossdressing with Dignity: The Case for Transcending Gender Lines. PM Publishers

·        Scholinski, Daphne (Dylan) w/Adams, M. (1997) The Last Time I Wore a Dress; A Memoir. Riverhead Books

·        Spry, J. (1997) Orlando's sleep: An Autobiography of Gender. Norwich,VT: New Victoria Publishers

·        Stuart, K. (1993) The Uninvited Dilemma. A Question of Gender.Portland, Oregon: Metamorphous Press

·        Sullivan, L. (1990) From female to male: The Life of Jack B. Garland. Boston: Alyson Publications

·        Thompson, R., with Sewell, K. (1995) What Took You So Long? A Girl's journey to Manhood. London: Penguin Books

·        Townsend, L. (2002) Hidden in Plain Sight. Writers Club

·        Tula (1982) I am a Woman. London: Sphere Books: Rainbird

·        Tula (1992) My story. London; Boston: Faber & Faber

·        Valerio, M. W. (1994) A Man: The Transsexual Journey of an Agent Provocateur. William Morrow & Company

·        Wålinder, J. (1967) Transsexualism: a study of forty-three cases. Göteborg: Akademiförlaget-Gumperts [‘case reports’ section at http://www.symposion.com/ijt/walinder/index.htm]

·        Walters, A. W. & Ross, M. W. (1986) Transexualism and Sex Reassignment. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press

·        Wells, E. (1986) The View from Within: What it feels like to be Transsexual, in Walters, W. A. W. & Ross, M. W. (Eds.) Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment. Melbourne: OxfordUniversity Press

·        Wilkerson, G. & Bobbi Lee Williams (2000) Me And Bobbi And The Gyrls. Xlibris Corporation

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Last revised: Mar 2005