Before I Had the Words - On Being a Transgender Young Adult
Skylar Kergil
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Summary
Author has been documenting his transition from female to male on YouTube since 2009 and is well known in the transgender community. The Boston Globe called him a “pioneer in the transgender movement” and he was recently featured on a PBS special about gender. 110k YouTube subscribers, 13k Twitter followers, 26.5k Facebook, 48.6k InstagramIn just the past few years, the transgender community (once largely hidden and rarely discussed) has received increased attention in the media. Still, few memoirs on gender transition are available.Perfect for transgender/gender nonconforming readers, friends and relatives of people who are transitioning, and readers who want to learn more about gender transition. Memoir details author’s experiences with transitioning from youth to present, including hormone therapy and surgery. Interviews with the author’s parents and brother, as well as poems and writing from the author’s journals, offer revealing perspectives.