But who expects teenagers to be tentative? Photographs (of most of the subjects) are candid and winning and appended material, including Kuklin’s explanation of her interview process, a Q&A with the director of a clinic for transgendered teens, and a great resource list, is valuable.įrom the March/April 2014 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.įor more in The Horn Book’s Pride Month series, click on the tag LGBT Pride 2016. Read 'Beyond Magenta Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out' by Susan Kuklin available from Rakuten Kobo. I’m gender queer, gender fluid, and gender other.” In her edited transcriptions of the interviews, Kuklin lets her subjects speak wholly for themselves, and while their bravery is heartening, their bravado can be heartbreaking.
Summary: Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or. Christina, born Matthew, looks forward to a complete transition (“It would be so great if I could get an operation, if I could get my vagina”), while Cameron says, “I like to be recognized as not a boy and not a girl. Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak out Cover Image Book. All six take gender-altering hormones four were birth-designated male and two female, but in all cases there is no confusion about who they are now. Rather than attempting to convey the spectrum of transgender experience through a multitude of voices, Kuklin tries something different here, focusing on just six young people whose gender identity is something other than what it was labeled at birth.
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
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