A review by potato_bug
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

dark emotional tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Would not recommend to people who are even remotely transphobic. It's got some of the hardest things for a trans person to hear from TERFS and from the trans women in the book (I mean, it's the end of the world and the main source of estrogen is contained in ballsacks, the transgirls are going through it) (no excuse for TERFS). It's the end of the world and all persons with high levels of testosterone have turned feral. TERFS have seized the opportunity to hunt down all trans women and convert cis boys into their ranks as women. As Liam McBain says in a 2022 npr article: "the core horrors of the book [are]: the fear of not knowing what will happen to you when someone realizes you're trans, because they think trans people — trans women especially — already are monsters. The fear of a forced detransition, an irreversible one, that takes your entire personhood away. "
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