Welcome to Debbie Ballard's Transgender Information Site.
Deborah Ballard aka Debbie Lawrence is a transgender woman with nearly 40 years of IT experience, nearly 40 years of transformational programs including 12 step programs, leadership training programs, open source support groups, transgender support groups and websites. Debbie has written 6 books on transgender issues, so far.
Non-fiction Transgender Books
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Non-fiction Transgender Books (Kindle/Amazon)
Christine Jorgensen: A Personal AutobiographyThis is really the most accurate accounting of the life and transition of Christine Jorgensen written by Christine herself. The movie version was written by a former boyfriend. n 1951 George Jorgensen, an American man of 26, left for Denmark and returned a year later as the first world-renowned transsexual, Christine Jorgensen. In her own personable style, Jorgensen offers a firsthand account of her ground-breaking life. "Nature made a mistake," she wrote, "which I have corrected." |
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How to Change Your Sex: A Light-hearted Look at the Hardest Thing You'll Ever DoAnnie Rose changed her sex and now she explains how you can too! How To Change Your Sex: A Lighthearted Look at the Hardest Thing You'll Ever Do is an amusing and practical guide to everything you need to know for your sex change, from how to tell if you are transsexual, through venturing out in public in your new gender presentation (including which restroom to use!), to hormones and surgeries, to what to expect afterwards. Whether you are seriously considering changing your own sex, or if you have a friend or loved one who is going through the process, or even if you are just curious, you are bound to be entertained and informed by this handy little manual. |
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Finding the Real Me is an extraordinary collection of real-life stories told by a wide-range of sex and gender diverse people. These healing tales of struggle and transformation reveal just how creative, resourceful, and adventurous the individuals in this community can be and also helps to bridge the gap between ignorance and understanding. As each incredible story unfolds we become part of the author's journey to self-acceptance and join the celebration of their new life. Page by page, we laugh, cry, and learn to appreciate these wonderful courageous people and the road they walked to be their true selves. Finding the Real Me is a landmark book that encourages us to embrace diversity, to never fear our differences, and to remain always in awe of our amazing possibilities. | |
New Body, New Gender, New LifeThis a biographical account based upon the true life story of Brooke McKellogg, a young woman who was born male, yet realized at an early age she was intended to be a girl. Follow along with Bobby McKellogg, age twelve, as he finally admitted to his parents his most secret desire - to live his life as a girl. Weep with the newly renamed Brooke McKellogg as she begins her new life, still in her teen years,and learns that not everything about her new gender is as easy as she hoped it would be. Cheer with Brooke as she undergoes her gender reassignment surgery and learns that there is indeed victory to be found when someone is willing to forge through a life fraught with set-backs and disappointments. This stirring true-to-life drama reveals the heartaches and joys of one transgender's life as she continues on as a young adult after she has undergone the gender reassignment surgery necessary in order to become the real girl she was meant to be. |
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Alice in Genderland
This is the first ever memoir by a crossdresser who is not content to live behind closed doors—and who takes it much further than his straighter, more circumspect peers might ever care to go. Most of the time, Harvard-educated psychiatrist Richard Novic is Rick, a man at the office or a husband and father at home. But one night a week, he is Alice, a woman about town, shopping, dining, dancing, and dating a man for nearly a decade. |
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Squirrel CageWhat happens when you hold a secret your whole life that can never be shared? What happens when your faith abandons you to pray your problem away? What happens when you destroy a complete generation of your family? This is the story of David, born into the Mormon faith who faces the insurmountable to become Cindi. Her life crumbles before her as she is pushed into an untenable position. Her family is destroyed as well as her career. She manages to pull herself through these agonizing events to rebuild her life and reconnect with her family. |
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Just One Letter: My Journey from 'M' to 'F'2nd Edition published December 2015.The contents have been re-edited mainly to remove typographical errors. The book has been updated to include a new final chapter outlining my life in the five years following SRS and after the receipt of my new birth certificate. This is the story of my life from earliest memories to the present day. I spent the best part of fifty years in total denial of my true gender. To the rest of the world, from my birth until I was in my mid-fifties, I was seen as male. Yet I knew from very early days, and long before I had the words to describe myself correctly, that I was in truth female. I was transsexual. I start my story on the day I told my wife why our marriage had been such a sham for the previous five years, and when I admitted to her that I was transsexual. The book progresses along two interlinked paths. One describes my early childhood and development into an adult, getting married and having children. The other path describes my journey of transition following the disclosure to my wife. It details the process up to and including my Sex Reassignment Surgery in January 2010 and the five years beyond, up to the present day. It details my receipt of a Gender Recognition Certificate and the issue of the new Birth Certificate, recording that all-important change of sex. The amendment is from the M on my original birth certificate to F on my new one, correcting the error of record at my birth and giving the book its perhaps enigmatic but wholly appropriate title. |
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Confessions of a Transsexual PhysicianThis story is in part about the metamorphosis of a man becoming a woman, but the transformation is more than a simple change of physical appearance; It's one of spiritual and emotional change as well. Along the way, I learned things about trust, friendship, love, and the infinite ways of being human. The transition taught me compassion for others in a way I never dreamed possible. |
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I Am JazzThe story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere |
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Tea and TransitionNobody anticipated a change from heterosexual man to heterosexual woman—least of all the author herself. |
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