![]() It wasn’t until the 1990s when small feminist and academic presses began to publish trans authors like Lou Sullivan, Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg and Vivian Namaste. ![]() Publishers weren’t interested in trans voices otherwise this was a society that regarded queer people as dangerously unfit and outlawed trans women wearing dresses. ![]() ![]() Not that there weren’t books on trans people, but they were either medical texts written by cisgender people such as Magnus Hirschfeld/Max Tilke’s Die Transvestiten (1910), Harry Benjamin’s The Transsexual Phenomenon (1966) and Richard Green/John Money’s Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment (1969), or they were autobiographies of trans anti-celebrities such as Lili Elbe’s Fra mand til kvinde (translation: “From man to woman”, 1931), Christine Jorgensen’s A Personal Autobiography (1967), Dianna Boileau’s Behold, I am a woman (1972) and April Ashley’s Odyssey (1982). Geschlecht – Die Transvestiten (translation: “The 3rd sex – the transvestites”, 1930-1932) or Rupert Raj’s Gender Review (1978-1986). ![]() If they wanted to exchange ideas in print, they had to do it in their own newsletters and zines such as in Friedrich Radszuweit’s Das 3. Up until very recently, gender diverse people were shut out of the publishing world. ![]()
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