{"id":303,"date":"2008-10-20T01:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=303"},"modified":"2008-10-20T01:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T01:13:00","slug":"transparent-by-cris-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2008\/10\/transparent-by-cris-beam.html","title":{"rendered":"Transparent by Cris Beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0151011966\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers<\/a> is the memoir of a lesbian who gets involved with transgendered teenagers, mostly male-to-female. This isn&#8217;t a subject I can claim to know anything about, but it&#8217;s an interesting one.  I learned a lot about the challenges these kids face and you certainly do get a sense for how strongly some of them feel the disconnect between their physical and mental genders. It&#8217;s curious how some people feel like they&#8217;ve been born the wrong gender while other people simply feel non-stereotypical.  For instance, I have many stereotypically male characteristics, habits, and interests, but I&#8217;ve never doubted my identity as a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Cris is more patient with the kid she semi-adopts than I would be.  Gender issues aside, these kids have a lot of other problems, so kudos to her and her partner for taking on such a troubled teen and sticking with her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers is the memoir of a lesbian who gets involved with transgendered teenagers, mostly male-to-female. This isn&#8217;t a subject I can claim to know anything about, but it&#8217;s an interesting one. I learned a lot about the challenges these kids face and you certainly do get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biosauto-biosmemoirs","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}