Nicole Maines has lived a noteworthy life for simply trying to live an authentic life. It’s truly heartbreaking to think about everything she went through, and she makes it clear that she was still more privileged than most.

I’m sure that people who aren’t liberals won’t like this book, but I found it to be refreshingly honest. As a Gen Xer, I also had no problem with some of the Gen Z slang that was used. The book told some inconvenient truths, but it was also quite funny.

Maines is at her best in this book when she allows herself to go off on a tangent. I agree with basically everything she said, and guess what? I’m not trans (although I am queer). I just happen to share the (non) radical idea that we should all be able to be who we really are.

Another highlight is that she can call herself on her own shit and openly acknowledged the problems/disadvantages of others. I was a bit sad that it only contained like three words about Yellowjackets, but at the end of the day, I wanted to hear about her trans journey more than I wanted to hear about my favorite show.

I hope that Nicole knows how many lives she’s changed for the better and that the cloud of depression will quit following her.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an ARC. This review contains my honest, unbiased opinion.

I thought that the second half of this felt a litter meandering and disconnected, but overall I would recommend this! I think it is really important that Nicole is getting to tell her own story after she became so well known for a book about her that she didn't write.