Juno mentions in the book, and I have heard it elsewhere, that the single most important thing to people being understanding of trans issues is knowing a trans person. This was refreshing as it can be so easy to paint all of society with the same, prejudiced, close minded paintbrush and continue to think that everything is going to shit, when in reality there are people like Juno who are championing for change and making a difference in how we view age old concepts such as gender. Juno doesn't just talk about her transition and her life in this book she shows us two different worlds one how humanity treats cis white men and how humany treats cis white/black woman.

Because of her familiar tone, the book did at points feel messy, but overall this was a very intelligent and compassionate exploration (both personal and cultural) of Gender in today's social context. It’s a reminder that the coronavirus lockdown has not only laid waste to the launch schedule for Wonderland, but has forced the postponement of her wedding to Max Gallant, originally scheduled for June.From little girls who think they can’t be doctors to teenagers who come to expect street harassment.

She was the first in her family to go on to higher education, landing a place at Bangor university in north Wales, where she studied psychology, dabbled in acting and music reviewing, and decided that fame might be the answer. The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. This book is a memoir of her experience being brought up as a boy and living as a gay man before realising she was trans, as well as a wider discussion about how gender norms fuck us all over. Her comments on gender expectations – especially on the double standards it places on women and men and the way it leads to and reinforces sexism and toxic behaviour – are insightful, sensitive and even-handed but it’s on the subject of being transgender that she really shines.The Gender Games traced Dawson’s dysphoria back to her early childhood in the Yorkshire town of Bingley, “famous as the birthplace of the Damart thermal underwear empire”. For instance, Juno talks about how she finds it presumptuous and unnecessary to refer to people as “sir” or “madam” etc. Dawson always knew she was a girl and naturally looked for female role models in pop culture and internalized many of society's toxic messages about womanhood, just like any cis girl.

I'm aware, now, that Juno Dawson is a successful author of teen fiction, and I feel this is also the target audience for this book. This despite the evidence showing that somewhere between 70-90% of gender dysphoric children will actually grow out of it as they go through puberty - if allowed to actually go through it that is. Davies Sarah Ridley Sarah Vaughan Sara Thielker Sara Ugolotti Sasha Alsberg Satu Hämeenaho-Fox Scott Bergstrom Scott Garrett Sebastien de Castell Seishi Yokomizo Serena Molloy Serena Patel Seren Boyd Sergei Medvedev Sergio Sismondo Serhii Plokhy Seymour Hersh Shane Hegarty Shannon Hale Shappi Khorsandi Sharon Cohen Sharon Davey Sheridan Stewart Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay Sif Sigmarsdóttir Simon Berthon Simon Brew Simone Douglas Simon Garnett Simon James Green Simon Lelic Simon Morden Simon Scarrow Simon Toyne Slavoj Žižek Solange Ouellet Sophie Anderson Sophie Hannah Soren Kenner Spike Milligan Sr. I enjoyed that the narrator was the author, so her emphasis and tone added nuances to the meaning that made her true meaning clear.Juno has such a warm, witty, hilarious and non patronising way of explaining and sharing her story, and this book exudes so much positivity. And two years ago, as Juno Dawson went to tell her mother she was (and actually, always had been) a woman, she started to realise just how wrong we’ve been getting it. Much like Akala’s book, this views a particular topic, in this case gender, through the means and lens of a narration of the author’s life and personal experiences.