At the time of writing, Jessy is a happy and confident college student with a long-term girlfriend. He states that he is proud to be transgender and is even comfortable embracing his feminine side. He felt like a boy from a young age and feels that his transition from female to male has been successful. In it, he describes a stable home life, an accepting family, and a childhood marked by international travel. While many reviewers praise Beyond Magenta for its detailed and empathetic exploration of transgender adolescence, others have questioned its practical use as a resource for trans teens and their parents.Ĭhapter 1 (“Jessy: The House of My Soul”) features an interview with a young transgender man named Jessy. In the same year, it was the fourth most banned book in the United States due to its explicit language and subject matter. It has been nominated for 13 awards and honors, including the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult Literature, which it won in 2015. This book is both highly decorated and highly controversial. Each chapter focuses on a different interviewee and (with the exception of Chapter 3) includes a photo essay. It contains six interviews with six different trans and nonbinary youths who discuss their transitions. Susan Kuklin’s Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out (2014) is a nonfiction book about trans (transgender) teenagers and young adults.
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