Top 10 transgender books

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Top 10 transgender books

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/21/top-10-transgender-books

The Guardian
Juliet Jacques
Wednesday 21 October 2015 06.27

Books by trans-identified authors have traditionally fallen into two categories: memoir and theory. The memoir came first – Lili Elbe (subject of the film The Danish Girl) was one of the first recipients of sex-reassignment surgery, supervised by pioneering sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. Elbe died following an operation in 1931, but two years later, Man Into Woman was published. It was a strange text: edited by "Niels Hoyer", the pen name of Ernst Ludwig Jacobson, it also used pseudonyms for Elbe and her friends. However, it launched a genre that developed in parallel with gender identity clinics' management of people's transitions and mass-media interest in transsexual and transgender people. The most widely read example in Britain remains Conundrum by Jan Morris, published in 1974.
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Juliet Jacques talks about her memoirs and the top ten books that inspired her.

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Is it okay to be pleased that none of Jennifer Boylan's books showed up on this list? She's a great storyteller, but I'm not impressed with her as a chronicler of the transgender experience.