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#17: Read a memoir written by someone who is trans or nonbinary.
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In 1997, Wayne and Kelly Maines, after several years of struggling to become parents, adopt twin boys from a distant young relative unable to care for them properly. As Wyatt and Jonas grow up, it became rapidly and clearly evident that the two children were very different people. Wyatt, as soon as he was able to speak, made it clear he felt himself to be a girl and became increasingly frustrated in the body assigned to him. Thus began a difficult journey for a family to adapt to this new and su
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I will be honest... I have never really given transgender much thought. At all. I just haven't. But this. What a raw, honest, and beautifully moving story of this family who struggled, accepted and simply loved.
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A very well written account of the true story of twins - both born as boys, but one of whom knows at a very early age that he/she is different. Even before the age of three, Wyatt (now Nicole) insisted that he wasn't supposed to be a boy - and this is the story of the challenges that lay ahead for the whole family.
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