He did it her way: Carlotta, legend of Les Girls| Carlotta. | OL1201331M | Goodreads | Google Books |

He did it her way

For 26 years from 1963 Carlotta was the undisputed queen of Kings Cross — the legend of Les Girls, a landmark theatre restaurant where all the women on stage are really drag queens.

He Did It Her Way is a fascinating and often hilarious journey into her world as a performer and transexual who started life as a Balmain boy and went on to have one of the fist sex change operations in Australia.

Candid, witty and irreverent — this is classic Carlotta, from the smart-arse ad-libbing to the intimate secrets shared, just as if she is enteratining you — her live audience of one.

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My Story | Caroline Cossey | OL7855978M

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My Story

Caroline ‘Tula’ Cossey was born a boy. Now she is a beautiful woman with a successful modeling career.

My Story is Tula’s candid account fo her struggles: her troubled childhood in northern England, her dreams of becoming a woman, the operations that liberated her sexually, and the journey from chorus gurl to James Bond girl to top international model.

After she was twice exposed by the tabloid press, Tulas career plummeted and her marriage to a wealthy businessman was annulled. In the spring of 1989, she was forced to make a unique appeal to the European Commission of Human Rights: she was fighting for the legal validation of her marriage as a female, though her birth certificate labeled her a lale.

My Story is the tale of a woman’s battle for the body she needed to survive, and a transsexual’s struggle for the rights she deserved.

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Katherine’s Diary: The story of a transsexual | Katherine Cummings | OL25426986M | Google Books |

Katherine’s Diary

“I think now that I was irrational, even insane, at the time. My transsexualism had taken hold of me with such obsessive force that I could not concentrate on anything else. There I was, a fifty-year-old professional academic librarian who had desparately wanted to be female ever since memories began…”

In 1986 John Cummings became Katherine Cummings and a while life changed.
In this painfully honest account of John’s transformation into a woman, Katerhine tells of years of fantasizing and cross-dressing behind locked doors, of the betrayal felt by her family and the final relief of surgery.
Katherine’s Diary covers a lifetime of self-discovery and self-destruction with acerbic wit and crisp observation.

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The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male | Max Wolf Valerio | OL8760144M

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The Testosterone Files

Max Valerio’s observations about transitioning from a lesbian to a heterosexual male both challenge and confirm our assumptions about gender. As Valerio undergoes the physical and emotional changes associated with testosterone treatment, he is intrigued by his eye-opening discoveries about the nature of masculinity and femininity. Raw, gripping and poetic, The Testosterone Files offers a perspective on men and women that only someone who’s lived in both skins can speak to with such insight and eolquence.

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Sally’s story: A coming of age tale | Mark Andersson | OL25424941M

Sally’s story

Self-proclaimed bi-sexual transgender Jewish cowgirl Sally Goldner tells her story of self- discovery, as she navigates the gender path on the way to her 45th birthday. A coming of age tale and personal portrait of inspiring Melbourne transgendered woman Sally Goldner: activist, drummer, singer/songwriter, stand-up comic and radio DJ.

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Review

I watched Sally’s Story at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival in 2012 and actually knowing Sally, albeit as an acquaintance in the gender community, I was struck by how honest her story was. It probably sounds trite, but there’s a certain manner of communicating that reveals rather than hides. Sally loves a lot of things, including wrestling and is an accomplished stand-up comedian, but the interesting thing is she has a story which is not the “same old trans story” that seems to be churned out for titillation rather than communication (the difference being the former gets people’s interest with sensationalised and stereotypical story lines of boy to girl and princesses, while the latter actually informs and expands the conversation). It takes courage to put yourself out there like Sally does on a daily basis (she was recently held to be one of the 100 most influential Melburnians) and this is another service she’s done for the community in Melbourne, around Australia and indeed, the world.

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