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A review by shane_the_reading_rat
Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman by Abby Chava Stein
4.0
stellar memoir, zoomed through it and could hardly put it down :D ended a tad abruptly but thats okay
[the rest of this review is more personal, so feel free to just read the above and skip the rest if you’re not interested in me yapping lmao.]
while i grew up in a different-but-slightly-similar environment to Abby Stein (conservative christianity for me), a lot of what she said felt like it heavily paralleled my own journey as a trans man. as a kid i vaguely knew that i was called and treated as a girl, but figured eventually people would just realize they had gotten it wrong and i was actually a boy. obviously didnt work that way, which upon my realization of that in middle school sent me down a spiral of depression and anger at everything and everyone (partially exacerbated by getting to play the beast in a beauty and the beast play in 6th grade and realizing “oh. that was incredible. i want to be called he and him all the time. ive never been happier.” and then having to go back to Normal Girl Life). im just glad i had internet access and was able to 1: fucking deconstruct the homophobia and transphobia that had been drilled into me 2:figure out i was trans and didn’t have to just be confused and angry for longer than i did.
thank you abby stein for writing this memoir, it hit me hard
[the rest of this review is more personal, so feel free to just read the above and skip the rest if you’re not interested in me yapping lmao.]
while i grew up in a different-but-slightly-similar environment to Abby Stein (conservative christianity for me), a lot of what she said felt like it heavily paralleled my own journey as a trans man. as a kid i vaguely knew that i was called and treated as a girl, but figured eventually people would just realize they had gotten it wrong and i was actually a boy. obviously didnt work that way, which upon my realization of that in middle school sent me down a spiral of depression and anger at everything and everyone (partially exacerbated by getting to play the beast in a beauty and the beast play in 6th grade and realizing “oh. that was incredible. i want to be called he and him all the time. ive never been happier.” and then having to go back to Normal Girl Life). im just glad i had internet access and was able to 1: fucking deconstruct the homophobia and transphobia that had been drilled into me 2:figure out i was trans and didn’t have to just be confused and angry for longer than i did.
thank you abby stein for writing this memoir, it hit me hard