The pictures gave me a sense of each teen’s journey and ideal self and allowed me to slow down and reflect on the words I had read as I looked at the pictures. I found the book a quick read because I was so engaged with each and every one of the stories. These are not well reasoned adult narratives, but the teens are surprisingly articulate because they have been exploring their gender identity through therapy for some time. The stories are touching, heartbreaking, and thought provoking. Kuklin’s photographic portraits accompany all but one of her interviews, including shots chronicling transformations through hormones. For friends and family, learning and using the preferred pronoun is a big step in affirming transgender teens or adults.īeyond Magenta explores the journey of six transgender teens as they discover their own gender identity, reveal it to others, and decide, with their parents or without, who they are and who they will become. Choosing “they, “he,” or” “ze” says something important about identity and aspirations. For transgender and gender neutral individuals the choice of pronoun is infinitely more complicated. Of course as feminists and many others will tell you, it’s not nearly that simple or that well defined. He or she, these words are assigned at birth and mean something about who we are, who we will be, who we’d like to become. For the majority of us pronouns are simple.
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