This book, published in 2015 and written by Amy Ellis Nutt, is not only informative about transgender issues, but it is also the record of a family dealing with a transgender kid. Luckily the family was from Maine and not Mississippi or Idaho.
Nicole’s legal victory in the Maine courts was the first that said transgender students had the right to be treated as the gender with which they identified. I now understand why it is important to start medical treatment before a transgender kid hits puberty, but also why the surgery shouldn’t be done (if you are having surgery) before about 18 years of age.
This is not some dry medical tome, but the story of a real family grappling with both interpersonal relationship issues and the problems created by bigots and Christians. Unfortunately the bigots in this case were mostly “Christians.”
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