One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman

For anyone who wants to be a trans ally—or who doesn't understand more than the male-female binary—I urge you to read this memoir. The author's young daughter transitioned at age 6 in a conservative town in rural New Hampshire, where the author grew up and thought of as idyllic. But when her daughter, still known as a boy, starts wearing pink tennis shoes to school, it's just the beginning of a years-long trauma complete with school board meetings where the family's supposed friends express fear of this young child using the "wrong" bathroom and talking to other children about gender identity. Already dealing with a school district that won't provide their autistic child with appropriate services, the family walks a tightrope every minute of every day. My family knows many trans people and I thought I understood a little of what they experience, but I was absolutely floored by reading this book. As soon as I finished it, I made a donation to the Trevor Project and bought a Protect Trans Kids t-shirt.