Books on Gender Variance in 2023 - Part 1: (auto) biographies

 

Trans AutoBiography

• Cyrus Dunham. A Year Without a Name: A Memoir. Back Bay Books, 2021.

• Diana Goetsch. This Body I Wore: A Memoir. Picador, 2023.

• Gigi Gorgeous. He said, she said : lessons, stories, and mistakes from my transgender journey. Harmony, 2019.

• Porpora Marcasciano. AntoloGaia: Queering the Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir. Rutgers University Press, 2023.

• Toshioa Meronek & Major Griffin-Gracy. Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Times of a Black Trans Revolutionary. Verso, 2023.

• Elliot Page. Pageboy: A Memoir. HarperCollins, 2023.

• Raquel Willis. The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation. ‎ St. Martin's Press, 2023.

Biographical sketches

• Katherine Locke and Shanee Benjamin. Gender Rebels: 30 Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Expansive Heroes Past and Present. Running Press Kids, 2023.

Trans Biography

• Ian Buruma. The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II. Penguin, 2023. One of the three is Kawashima Yoshiko. GVWW.

  

• Jens Dobler. You Have Never Seen A Dancer Like Voo Doo: Das unglaubliche Leben des Willi Pape. vbb Verlag, 2022. GVWW.

• Charles Elton. Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision. Abrams Press, 2022.

• William F Halloran. William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod” A Life. OpenBook Publishers, 2022.

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  Moisés Lino e Silva. Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela. University of Chicago Press, 2022.

• Pilar Matos. De Niño a Mujer. Biografía De Dolly Van Doll. Arcopress Ediciones, 2007.
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• Karen McKie. Amy Schneider: Dual Life as Writer and Game Contestant. 2023.

• William Grey Pete. Janet Mock: A Trans Woman’s Memoir of Identity, Gender, and Sexuality. 2023.

• Meeg Pincus. Door by Door: How Sarah McBride Became America's First Openly Transgender Senator. Crown Books, 2023.

• Gabriella Romano. Il mio nome è Lucy: L’Italia del XX secolo nei ricordi di una transessuale. Donzelli Editore, 2009. GVWW.

• Albert Tanquero and Lewis Rawlinson. Remember Me, Vicki Starr: The Visual History of a Trans Renegade. 2021. GVWW.

• Niki Trauthwein. Das Leben von Antonio de Erauso: Die geschlechtliche Identität einer baskischen Person in den frühen Kolonien Südamerikas. Eine vergleichende und kommentierte Ausgabe. LIT Verelag, 2021.

• Niki Trauthwein. Peter Pan in Hamburg: Gert-Christian Südel: Transpionier, Aktivist und Überlebenskünstler. LIT Verlag, 2020. GVWW.

  
  
  

• Carolyn Whitzman. Clara at the Door with a Revolver: The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto. On Point Press, 2023.

Spouse Autobiography

• Lynette Reini-Grandell. Wild Things: A Trans-Glam-Punk-Rock Love Story. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2023. By the wife of Venus de Mars.

Doctor Biography

• Alison Li. Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution. The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. On Harry Benjamin. Li is also an endocrinologist.

Changeback

• Oli London. Detransition: a memoir. Skyhorse Publishing, 2023. GVWW.