Transgender Memoirs and Biographies

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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating β€” 16,468 ratings
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity 4.27 avg rating β€” 8,774 ratings
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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders 3.97 avg rating β€” 12,943 ratings
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Lion Song (Uncommon Partnerships I)
Lion Song (Uncommon Partnerships I)
by: Judy Burr
4.62 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Becoming a Visible Man
Becoming a Visible Man 4.10 avg rating β€” 926 ratings
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Bumbling into Body Hair: A Transsexual's Memoir
Bumbling into Body Hair: A Transsexual's Memoir 4.08 avg rating β€” 131 ratings
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A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today 3.94 avg rating β€” 3,618 ratings
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster 3.90 avg rating β€” 29,489 ratings
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I Rise - The Transformation of Toni Newman
I Rise - The Transformation of Toni Newman 3.76 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us 4.03 avg rating β€” 6,314 ratings
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Conundrum
Conundrum 3.90 avg rating β€” 2,167 ratings
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Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition
Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition 3.80 avg rating β€” 1,220 ratings
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The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male
The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male 3.60 avg rating β€” 505 ratings
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Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience
Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience 3.78 avg rating β€” 343 ratings
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Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man
Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man
by: Chaz Bono
3.48 avg rating β€” 1,667 ratings
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Gender Failure
Gender Failure 4.31 avg rating β€” 2,443 ratings
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Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers
Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers
by: Cris Beam
3.99 avg rating β€” 526 ratings
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The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution 3.64 avg rating β€” 330 ratings
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Transgender History
Transgender History 4.22 avg rating β€” 5,494 ratings
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My Transvestite Addictions: The Story of One Individual's Odyssey Through Crossdressing, Alcohol, Escorts, Strippers, Sex, and Money
My Transvestite Addictions: The Story of One Individual's Odyssey Through Crossdressing, Alcohol, Escorts, Strippers, Sex, and Money 4.29 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton 3.53 avg rating β€” 453 ratings
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Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin
Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin 4.01 avg rating β€” 334 ratings
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Pageboy
Pageboy 3.73 avg rating β€” 72,715 ratings
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All Boys Aren’t Blue
All Boys Aren’t Blue 4.19 avg rating β€” 44,457 ratings
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She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband
She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband 3.67 avg rating β€” 412 ratings
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Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place
Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place 4.36 avg rating β€” 1,848 ratings
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Truth About Me, The: A Hijra Life Story
Truth About Me, The: A Hijra Life Story 3.96 avg rating β€” 555 ratings
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My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser
My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser 3.73 avg rating β€” 277 ratings
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On Being Insane: In Search of My Missing Pieces
On Being Insane: In Search of My Missing Pieces 4.27 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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S/He
S/He 4.15 avg rating β€” 1,565 ratings
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The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,021 ratings
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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation 4.09 avg rating β€” 2,973 ratings
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The Last Time I Wore a Dress
The Last Time I Wore a Dress 3.89 avg rating β€” 2,703 ratings
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Before I Had the Words: On Being a Transgender Young Adult
Before I Had the Words: On Being a Transgender Young Adult 4.18 avg rating β€” 744 ratings
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The Secrets of My Life
The Secrets of My Life 3.27 avg rating β€” 5,794 ratings
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Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues 4.53 avg rating β€” 34,595 ratings
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I am My Own Wife: The True Story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
I am My Own Wife: The True Story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf 3.95 avg rating β€” 297 ratings
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Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man 4.24 avg rating β€” 1,646 ratings
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Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some
Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some 4.24 avg rating β€” 525 ratings
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Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders
Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders 3.80 avg rating β€” 1,109 ratings
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Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography
Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography 4.02 avg rating β€” 121 ratings
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TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work
TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work 4.23 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
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I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted
I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted 3.73 avg rating β€” 1,319 ratings
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No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure
No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure 3.40 avg rating β€” 273 ratings
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Wanting in Arabic
Wanting in Arabic 4.23 avg rating β€” 111 ratings
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Manning Up: Transsexual Men on Finding Brotherhood, Family, and Themselves
Manning Up: Transsexual Men on Finding Brotherhood, Family, and Themselves 4.38 avg rating β€” 80 ratings
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Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders
Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders 3.94 avg rating β€” 87 ratings
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Bent
Bent 3.28 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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Confessions of an Empty Purse
Confessions of an Empty Purse 4.25 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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A Tale of Two Masks: A Transgender Psychopath’s Search for Realization and Restraint
A Tale of Two Masks: A Transgender Psychopath’s Search for Realization and Restraint 4.09 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Being
Being 4.28 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
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What Took You So Long?
What Took You So Long? really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Two Spirits, One Heart: A Mother, Her Transgender Son, and Their Journey to Love and Acceptance
Two Spirits, One Heart: A Mother, Her Transgender Son, and Their Journey to Love and Acceptance 4.17 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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The Wind That Ruffled the Field
The Wind That Ruffled the Field 4.17 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Show Trans
Show Trans 4.03 avg rating β€” 64 ratings
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Digging Up the Salt Mines: A Film Memoir
Digging Up the Salt Mines: A Film Memoir 4.62 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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Major i Helena: Priča o vojniku koji se nije predao
Major i Helena: Priča o vojniku koji se nije predao 4.83 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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You Can't Shave in a Minimart Bathroom
You Can't Shave in a Minimart Bathroom 4.14 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Genderbound: An Odyssey From Female to Male
Genderbound: An Odyssey From Female to Male 4.43 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Trans Figured: My Journey from Boy to Girl to Woman to Man
Trans Figured: My Journey from Boy to Girl to Woman to Man 3.61 avg rating β€” 230 ratings
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Hugged
Hugged 4.59 avg rating β€” 85 ratings
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Farm Boy, City Girl: From Gene to Miss Gina
Farm Boy, City Girl: From Gene to Miss Gina 3.83 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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GenderQueer: A Story from a Different Closet
GenderQueer: A Story from a Different Closet 4.03 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience 4.07 avg rating β€” 495 ratings
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The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is
The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is 3.90 avg rating β€” 182 ratings
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Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist 4.67 avg rating β€” 452 ratings
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Maeve Rising: Coming Out Trans in Corporate America
Maeve Rising: Coming Out Trans in Corporate America 4.52 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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Somos uno: El relato de un chico transexual
Somos uno: El relato de un chico transexual 3.17 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Not Your Average American Girl
Not Your Average American Girl really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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Transformations
Transformations 4.22 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Real Man Adventures
Real Man Adventures
by: T. Cooper
3.68 avg rating β€” 405 ratings
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Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love
Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love 3.38 avg rating β€” 183 ratings
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Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen
Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen 3.95 avg rating β€” 2,611 ratings
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Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me 4.24 avg rating β€” 2,415 ratings
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In from the Wilderness: Sherman: She-r-man
In from the Wilderness: Sherman: She-r-man 3.95 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
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Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars 4.25 avg rating β€” 5,806 ratings
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TRANS/gressive: How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, the Media & Congress ... and Won!
TRANS/gressive: How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, the Media & Congress ... and Won! 3.77 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
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The Gender Games: The Problem with Men and Women, from Someone Who Has Been Both
The Gender Games: The Problem with Men and Women, from Someone Who Has Been Both 4.09 avg rating β€” 2,365 ratings
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Something That May Shock and Discredit You
Something That May Shock and Discredit You 3.84 avg rating β€” 3,586 ratings
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Breaking Free: 45 Years In The Wrong Body
Breaking Free: 45 Years In The Wrong Body 4.33 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Help I'm Addicted: A Trans Girls Self-Discovery & Recovery
Help I'm Addicted: A Trans Girls Self-Discovery & Recovery 3.45 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan 4.75 avg rating β€” 2,315 ratings
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The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation
The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation 4.28 avg rating β€” 359 ratings
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Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah
Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah 3.85 avg rating β€” 671 ratings
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Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen (Sexual Minorities in Historical Context)
Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen (Sexual Minorities in Historical Context) 3.57 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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Straight Boy/Queer Girl: a Memoir
Straight Boy/Queer Girl: a Memoir 2.80 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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3 Movements (Feminism, LGBT Rights, Marriage Equality), 2 Diaries, 1 Trans Woman's Message
3 Movements (Feminism, LGBT Rights, Marriage Equality), 2 Diaries, 1 Trans Woman's Message
by: TaraElla
3.40 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout 4.32 avg rating β€” 10,758 ratings
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He Said, She Said: Lessons, Stories, and Mistakes from My Transgender Journey
He Said, She Said: Lessons, Stories, and Mistakes from My Transgender Journey 3.65 avg rating β€” 398 ratings
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Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels
Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels 3.78 avg rating β€” 394 ratings
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Man into Woman: The First Sex Change
Man into Woman: The First Sex Change
by: Lili Elbe
4.06 avg rating β€” 788 ratings
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Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family 4.22 avg rating β€” 13,073 ratings
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It Never Goes Away: Gender Transition at a Mature Age
It Never Goes Away: Gender Transition at a Mature Age 3.80 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
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Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On
Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On 3.05 avg rating β€” 344 ratings
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JAZZ MERGIRL: The True Story of Jazz Jennings, a Transgender Girl Born in a Boy's Body
JAZZ MERGIRL: The True Story of Jazz Jennings, a Transgender Girl Born in a Boy's Body 3.74 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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This Time for Me
This Time for Me 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,110 ratings
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What The Other Half Don'T Know: My Life As A Transvestite Escort
What The Other Half Don'T Know: My Life As A Transvestite Escort really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy
Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy 3.46 avg rating β€” 156 ratings
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Kenna / A Transgender Life
Kenna / A Transgender Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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My Life Until Death
My Life Until Death 3.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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