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.

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.