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4.64 AVERAGE
4.64 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This was such an informative read for anyone wanting to know more and do more. It is equal parts scientific with citations and emotional filled with personal stories. It's realistic, but also hopeful and all in all, I cannot give anything less than 5 stars.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Transphobia
Minor: Racism
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
This book is an exceptional memoir meets instruction/direction manual, and I highly suggest this be on everyone's reading list (except people who 100% will never listen to or accept trans people, y'all are a lost cause).
Let's talk about the instruction/direction portion first. There is so much information in here about ways to support trans people, ways to talk to trans people, and general homo/transphobia and how to deal with it and educate people on it. What types of things are micro aggressions, what types of things are just straight up inappropriate, how to make arguments or lead people to understand why their transphobic thoughts are misplaced. The best part of this is that there are so many examples given in the text of real life experiences that support and show these things in action. It's amazingly informative.
Now, the memoir esk portion, I feel, is equally as well done. It's spread through out and used to better explain some of the informational bits. It's beautifully woven together like a conversation and understandable. There's also bits from all over in his history, from work as an advocate, to college sports, and stuff from being a kid. All spots of life are clearly on display and used to reinforce the points made.
The end of the book says that Schuyler put everything he had into this book, and I believe it. There's so much given, including some really hard content for him, and it's all given in an extremely palatable format. Please take advantage of this. No one owes you being palatable for them to deserve to be respected, but this is palatable in spite of that, and really it's done that way to help people feel more comfortable reading it, which also isn't owed by the trans person to be respected.
I'm non binary and my child has been telling me they switch between being a boy and a girl since they figured out what boys and girls are. So while I have an acceptable amount of experience with pronouns and trans life, this book has been awesome to read and helped me see some of the biases I have and how to be a better person to myself and other trans people. 10/10, this was phenomenal.
Let's talk about the instruction/direction portion first. There is so much information in here about ways to support trans people, ways to talk to trans people, and general homo/transphobia and how to deal with it and educate people on it. What types of things are micro aggressions, what types of things are just straight up inappropriate, how to make arguments or lead people to understand why their transphobic thoughts are misplaced. The best part of this is that there are so many examples given in the text of real life experiences that support and show these things in action. It's amazingly informative.
Now, the memoir esk portion, I feel, is equally as well done. It's spread through out and used to better explain some of the informational bits. It's beautifully woven together like a conversation and understandable. There's also bits from all over in his history, from work as an advocate, to college sports, and stuff from being a kid. All spots of life are clearly on display and used to reinforce the points made.
The end of the book says that Schuyler put everything he had into this book, and I believe it. There's so much given, including some really hard content for him, and it's all given in an extremely palatable format. Please take advantage of this. No one owes you being palatable for them to deserve to be respected, but this is palatable in spite of that, and really it's done that way to help people feel more comfortable reading it, which also isn't owed by the trans person to be respected.
I'm non binary and my child has been telling me they switch between being a boy and a girl since they figured out what boys and girls are. So while I have an acceptable amount of experience with pronouns and trans life, this book has been awesome to read and helped me see some of the biases I have and how to be a better person to myself and other trans people. 10/10, this was phenomenal.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
An extremely important resource that everyone should read. Thorough and impeccably delivered information about gender identity that applies to everyone, not just queer + trans.