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A review by doriangay
Be Who You Are by Jennifer Carr
4.0
4 stars for writing a book about a trans kid that I can actually read to my class :D
I'm just sad it wasn't written by a trans person, and that it continues this 'wrong bodies' stereotype. all bodies are good and awesome, and if people need to change their bodies in any way it is almost always because society is telling them their bodies are not good enough. of course medical transitions are encouraged for everyone who needs and or wants to, but I just want to go away from the whole 'wrong body' and 'born as a boy' rhetoric. Hope was mistaken for a boy by the people around her, but had always been a girl (as she says herself in the book)
so yeah. will be editing those phrases while reading to my students.
I'm just sad it wasn't written by a trans person, and that it continues this 'wrong bodies' stereotype. all bodies are good and awesome, and if people need to change their bodies in any way it is almost always because society is telling them their bodies are not good enough. of course medical transitions are encouraged for everyone who needs and or wants to, but I just want to go away from the whole 'wrong body' and 'born as a boy' rhetoric. Hope was mistaken for a boy by the people around her, but had always been a girl (as she says herself in the book)
so yeah. will be editing those phrases while reading to my students.