{"id":3900,"date":"2015-09-03T21:19:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T21:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2015-09-03T21:19:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T21:19:15","slug":"some-assembly-required-the-not-so-secret-life-of-a-transgender-teen-by-arin-andrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3900","title":{"rendered":"Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen by Arin Andrews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If and when my library teens want to discuss what is going on in their lives, they know\u00a0I\u00a0am available as a sounding board, a shoulder to cry on, or as a resource for finding agencies that can provide further help.\u00a0\u00a0Some of my teens have come to me while they were in the process of coming out and\/or transitioning.\u00a0\u00a0Thankfully, there are brave young people like Arin Andrews who are willing to share their own stories so that transgender and<\/span> cisgender people can better understand both the obstacles transgender people face and the resources that are available to them as they decide how they would like to move forward with their lives.<\/p>\n

I thought Arin did a great job of explaining the process of [female to male] transitioning both simply and thoroughly; the fact that he managed to do so without being didactic was very impressive!\u00a0 Though Arin’s transition involved both hormone therapy and gender reassignment <\/span>surgery, he was careful to explain that there are many people who opt to transition differently and that all choices are valid. \u00a0I was especially grateful for Arin’s candor about dating and sex, since I am sure many people are curious about how that all “works,” when one or more of the people in the relationship is transgendered.\u00a0 I\u00a0think this book would be an excellent resource for someone who is preparing for or struggling with his\/her own transition, but I also think it is an important book to share with cisgender teens.\u00a0 As a woman who feels perfectly at home in the body into which she was born, it has taken years of conversations with transgendered teens to even begin<\/em> to fully appreciate their struggle. \u00a0I can only hope that the open sharing of stories like Arin’s will help future generations to be more understanding and empathetic and that the struggle for trans rights will soon become a part of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If and when my library teens want to discuss what is going on in their lives, they know\u00a0I\u00a0am available as a sounding board, a shoulder to cry on, or as a resource for finding agencies that can provide further help.\u00a0\u00a0Some of my teens have come to me while they were in the process of coming … Continue reading Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen by Arin Andrews<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}