This book is phenomenal. While I am not trans, I do aim to be a solid ally for those who are. I really connected with the stories and am so inspired by the individuals telling sharing their lives. We are absolutely purchasing this book for our library's collection!

I would like to preface this review by saying that I am not transgender, so please do not assign my opinion equal or higher weight than those that are since it is not my lived experience.

So this book makes me want to cry in the best way. I haven't cried yet but I think I might be getting very close. I chose this book because I am trying to be a better ally and, because of some physical disabilities, I cannot physically do supportive things like go to rallies etc so most of my advocacy occurs online.

I cannot stress enough how wonderful this book is-- the interwoven testimonials with the information about different terms and medical criteria is so brilliantly done. I am one of those people who tend to find that testimonials annoy me or distract me from what I am reading but this is so spectacularly not the case here. Everything is woven together so well and, even as someone who is mostly fine with their assigned gender, I felt seen and understood myself a bit better.

I really appreciate how this book includes how gender looks in different cultures. For years I have been responding about the Bugis society having five genders whenever someone says there are only two genders, and it so so nice to see other examples!

This review is definitely shorter and not as well-written as my usual because I am so emotional right now about how beautiful and needed this book is. I will be requesting it for every library I am in contact with as well as recommending it to everyone I can.

Thank-you for this. Everyone should read this (and I have said that about very few books in my life).