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A review by medusasminion
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
1.0
Nope.
As the parent of a nonbinary youth, I had hoped to gain some insight from the youth in this book. The first thing that bothered me was the author's attitude, talking about being non-judgmental and factual in a weird way... it already felt like cis BS. In the commentary in the very first story the author presents erroneous and dangers information about gender and chromosome combinations that only further harms lgbtq people. The interviewer clearly needs to study biology, or at least watch some TED talks about gender and update their way of thinking. Gender is NOT binary, not even scientifically speaking, and there are NOT only two possible chromosome combinations. How irresponsible to have this published. And why use people's pre transitional photos? If you're using fake names that doesn't seem helpful but it also focuses on their past and not who they are. I hope the kids who gave photos wanted those photos included. I am also uncomfortable with them sharing their stories and the author profiting off of them. I realize this happens in many collections of interviews, but it just feels wrong, especially if the author is cis.
As the parent of a nonbinary youth, I had hoped to gain some insight from the youth in this book. The first thing that bothered me was the author's attitude, talking about being non-judgmental and factual in a weird way... it already felt like cis BS. In the commentary in the very first story the author presents erroneous and dangers information about gender and chromosome combinations that only further harms lgbtq people. The interviewer clearly needs to study biology, or at least watch some TED talks about gender and update their way of thinking. Gender is NOT binary, not even scientifically speaking, and there are NOT only two possible chromosome combinations. How irresponsible to have this published. And why use people's pre transitional photos? If you're using fake names that doesn't seem helpful but it also focuses on their past and not who they are. I hope the kids who gave photos wanted those photos included. I am also uncomfortable with them sharing their stories and the author profiting off of them. I realize this happens in many collections of interviews, but it just feels wrong, especially if the author is cis.