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Stunning Built like a thriller moving wise and illuminated on every page with love Joanne Harris author of Chocolat
A parents deeply moving love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is
When Carolyn Hayss child made clear to the family that they were all wrong he was not a boy but in fact a girl the Hays shifted pronouns adopted a nickname and encouraged her to dress as she felt comfortable One ordinary day a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families knocked on their door to investigate an anonymous complaint about the upbringing of their transgender child It was this threat that instilled in them a deepseated fear for their childs safety in the Republican state they called home And so they uprooted their lives to the more transaccepting Northeast United States though they were never far from the hate and fear resting at the nations core
Intimate lyrical and thoughtprovoking A Letter to My Transgender Daughter is an ode to Hayss brilliant brave child as well as a cathartic revisit of the pain of the past It tells of the brutal truths of being trans of the sacrificial nature of motherhood and of the lengths a family will go to shield their youngest from the cruel realities of the world Hays asks us all to love better for children everywhere enduring injustice and prejudice just as they begin to understand themselves
A Letter to My Transgender Daughter is a celebration of difference a plea for empathy a hope for a better future but moreover it is a love letter to a child who has always known herself and is waiting for the rest of the world to catch up
Originally published as A Girlhood A Letter to My Transgender Daughter
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