I was really hoping this would be a focused guide on teaching homophobia/transphobia, but it felt more like a series of anecdotes and various somewhat-relevant citations.

I hate to give this a low star rating, but I personally wouldn’t recommend this as a guide the way it advertises itself as. It’s incredibly repetitive in the personal stories, the “I taught/gave a TedTalk/did a class on xyz”, the “we’ll learn more about xyz later”…It’s so frequent that I often had to double check what the current chapter was even about. It’s also lacking in exercises and ways for the reader to unpack things in an acclimating way.

There are good paragraphs throughout, but it’s often crunched between far less informative ones.

Other gripe is the right/wrong choice of wording- Never in my life, in person or in circle online, have I ever heard the term ‘transitioning’ be called offensive. I’ve never met nor heard of a trans person saying this, and I feel really weird having a gay cis guy tell a (mostly likely) cishet reader things that aren’t considered relevant to the wider conversation regarding trans people.

I’d recommend skipping this, and I’ll come back to this review if I find a better alternative that covers LGBT discussions in a clearer way that would be appropriate for recommending to people who aren’t.