Only a parent of a transgender child could thread this needle so delicately, and author Laurie Frankel indeed is such a parent. This book does just that for anyone without a front-row seat to the transgender community, and it does so with painstaking care and love. Sometimes the best thing about a book is the superhero power it gives you to get inside the mind of people in different circumstances than yourself. And if you screw up – if with your incomplete contradictory information you make the wrong call – nothing less than your child’s entire future and happiness is at stake. Who trusts you to know what’s good and right and then to be able to make that happen. You have to make these huge decisions on behalf of your kid, this tiny human whose fate and future is entirely in your hands.

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