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clellman 's review for:
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
this is the first trans memoir i have read, i think
still hard to understand what it is like to be trans, and even in this book it seemed reduced to things like wanting to wear women's clothing. also having a "woman's spirit" but i am a woman and i have no idea what that means. description of the hormonal changes was pretty interesting. there was no larger discussion of gender theory
interesting: boylan describes several instances of being mistreated post-transition, but it's always for being a woman and not for being trans (maybe because her trans-ness was not that visible).
that said, this was really good. i liked the way it was written, and there were a lot of powerfully-placed anecdotes and tiny things that had meaning connected to something somewhere else in the book. fun that she went to the haverford school. also its a pretty funny book
a lot of name-dropping throughout, got a little excessive
still hard to understand what it is like to be trans, and even in this book it seemed reduced to things like wanting to wear women's clothing. also having a "woman's spirit" but i am a woman and i have no idea what that means. description of the hormonal changes was pretty interesting. there was no larger discussion of gender theory
interesting: boylan describes several instances of being mistreated post-transition, but it's always for being a woman and not for being trans (maybe because her trans-ness was not that visible).
that said, this was really good. i liked the way it was written, and there were a lot of powerfully-placed anecdotes and tiny things that had meaning connected to something somewhere else in the book. fun that she went to the haverford school. also its a pretty funny book
a lot of name-dropping throughout, got a little excessive