I AM TRANSGENDER

Stories of Identity, Rejection, Survival, and Hidden Lives

von Mario Garcia

136 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Some people spend half their lives hiding a suitcase, a photograph, a dress, a name, or an entire part of themselves.Some are thrown out of home as teenagers. Some survive years on the streets. Some wait decades before saying their real name out loud. Some marriages endure secrets that have been kept for thirty or forty years. Some mothers spend years searching for the daughters they once rejected. Some families discover letters, photographs, clothes, and entire hidden lives only after someone has died.BEYOND TRANS brings together dozens of independent stories inspired by real experiences, documented historical contexts, and situations that have shaped the lives of transgender people, cross-dressers, and others who were forced to hide their identity or gender expression for years.This is not a book about theories.It does not try to tell the reader what to think.It tells stories.A teenager sleeping in a train station after being thrown out by her family. A cabaret performer trying to survive the nightlife of the 1970s while the world outside is still prepared to punish her existence. A woman forbidden from attending the funeral of the man she loved for seventeen years. A trans man entering prison while his official documents still tell a different story. A mother searching for eleven years for the daughter she allowed to be driven from home. A person who waits until the age of seventy-four to finally look into the mirror without having to hide.The book also moves through different eras and places, from decades of secrecy and underground communities to Berlin in 1933, when pioneering spaces such as the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft were destroyed and many lives were forced back into hiding.Some stories end with reunion.Others end too late.Some contain forgiveness.Others do not.Because BEYOND TRANS does not manufacture perfect endings.Its characters make mistakes. They lie. They love. They abandon people. They survive. They hurt others and are hurt themselves. Some rebuild what was broken. Others learn to live with what cannot be repaired.The protagonists are fictional or composite characters whenever the story does not concern a specific historical figure, created from plausible situations and shared experiences without falsely attributing invented events to real people.At its heart, BEYOND TRANS is not only about gender identity.It is about family, fear, love, shame, loss, survival, memory, and time.The time someone spends waiting for a phone call.The years a family loses without speaking.The decades a person can spend hiding inside their own life.Because behind every label there is something far harder to summarize: a human life.

• Reihe: I AM TRANSGENDER
• ISBN: 9798176043228
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published