Another graphic novel memoir about gender non-conforming. Not about someone going through transition, it’s the perspective of a parent struggling to accept that their child is trans. Which I found really refreshing, it’s a viewpoint I hadn’t seen presented in a book before. Personally I didn’t have the same anger, refusal to listen, demanding answers of doctors and therapists, but I did have many of the same questions and uncertainties. This mother in the book had no inkling that her child would at some point feel they didn’t fit the gender they were born with, it came as a shock when Alex was a teen. Had been wearing their hairstyle very short for a while and then suddenly announced they were using a new name, identified as a boy, and had been seeing a therapist. She (the mother) had to catch up quick. Lots of quotes in here from other studies and literature about trans people and their journey. About gender identities all round. Some ways of looking at things that I personally had not considered before, I found myself more educated than I expected to be! In particular because this book is translated from the French, so many of the quotes and examples (including ones about different ways that animals behave) were different from the specific ones I’d been familiar with.
Apologies that this review isn’t very in-depth or well written. I’m having difficulty thinking clearly this day.
Borrowed from the public library. Completed on 7//24.
