A review by transforattention
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

This book was extremely disappointing. Situating testosterone as a demonizing hormone felt like trying not to do transphobia so hard that you horse-shoe back around and end up doing transphobia again. I somehow thought another trans person would have found a way to plot that out with a little consideration for her trans brothers. Having the only trans-masc character get his period, and not including nor understanding how fucking awful of an experience that is, speaks volumes to how the author views trans men (I have never felt more like someone considered me Woman Lite). 

If that's not compelling enough for you, don't skip past her description of an Indigenous character's skin as "red"! That really says it all, in so far as revealing the alarming ignorance of this author, but as a cherry on top, she features a fat character whose entire thought patterns center around her weight. It probably would've been good to flesh those characters out more beyond bizarre, dehumanizing, and flattening stereotypes. But y'know. Trans solidarity I guess. To be fair, I read the whole thing, so, something kept me going.
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