getting concerned because of parental love. She said she wanted her point to be taken so that parents would know what they were feeling. Her evolution from being frightened, scared, uninformed to an absolutely adoring parent is a beautiful story. Also in that chapter, which was very important to me, was her mother, who was very much opposed to her becoming female - her transitioning. She bucked an awful lot of bullying and teasing and stood her ground - and today is a beautiful artist and creative person and living a wonderful life. By her senior year she decided she was going to live her true life.she started a transition right there in school. I think the one story that I appreciated a lot was a young trans woman who went to an all boys Catholic school in the Bronx. On the importance of telling stories that inform understanding Ages 15+ Summary In Beyond Magenta, a Stonewall Honor Book,Susan Kuklin offers a spectrum of transgender and gender-neutral teens as told through the words and photographic images of six individuals. To pretend that people like this do not exist is ridiculous because we know they do exist, and so their voices being heard could be very helpful. Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out. I saw that chapter as someone who started - who was born into a terrible environment with lots of violence and very little education and managed to become a hero and live a successful life and go to college. Whereas I saw it as an example of how someone can survive. people took chapter and that story and turned it around into something very negative and very ugly.
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