Transparent
love, family, and living the T with transgender teenagers
by Cris Beam
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When Cris Beam moved to Los Angeles, she thought she might volunteer just a few hours at a school for gay and transgender kids. Instead, she found herself drawn deeply into the pained and powerful group of transgirls she discovered. Transparent introduces four: Christina, Dominique, Foxxjazell, and Ariel. As they accept Cris into their world, she shows it to us a dizzying mix of familiar teenage cliques and crushes and far less familiar challenges, such as how to morph your body on a few dollars a day.
Funny, heartbreaking, defiant, and sometimes defeated, the girls form a singular community. But they struggle valiantly to resolve the gap between the way they feel inside and the way the world sees them and who among us can’t identify with that? Beam’s astute reporting, sensitive writing, and passionate engagement with her characters place this book in the ranks of the very best narrative nonfiction.
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Biography, Education, Parents of transsexuals, Social conditions, Transgender youth, Transgenderism, Transsexual youth, Transsexualism, Gender nonconformity, Transsexuals, Youth, united states, LGBTQ gender identity, LGBTQ sociology, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award WinnerPlaces
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Transparent: love, family, and living the T with transgender teenagers
2008, Harcourt
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Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers
January 14, 2008, Harvest Books
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in English
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Transparent: love, family, and living the T with transgender teenagers
2007, Harcourt
in English
- 1st ed.
0151011966 9780151011964
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Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers
January 2, 2007, Harcourt
in English
0151011966 9780151011964
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"A Harvest book."
Previously published in hardback: c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-320).
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