The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both

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Yes, she explains things very well, always making it clear other people have and have had other experiences, and explains the impact of societal gender norms very well.

Dawson responded by saying the event highlighted how "there is still such small-mindedness and hatred left to contend with.

This book is part memoir and part commentary and discussion of popular culture, societal norms and how society views sexuality, sex, gender, women’s rights, transphobia, intersectional feminism and more.

But while Alice has transitioned by the time she starts secondary school, it wasn’t until Dawson was a well-known author in her 30s (crowned Queen of Teen in a reader-led YA prize) that she felt ready to take the plunge, changing from James to Juno. She later turned her talent to journalism, interviewing luminaries such as Steps and Atomic Kitten before writing a weekly serial in a Brighton newspaper. The Gender Games by Juno Dawson shows you her life before she Transitioned and how her life started through the coming outs and as she Transitioned.

There is a lot of flippancy around the impact this ideology has on children, particularly through medicalising young kids who experience gender dysphoria by putting them on “delicious” puberty blocking drugs that stop their development (including brain development) as Dawson laments not being able to become the typical “tiny, hairless and doe-eyed” woman because he was never given access to them. There is a very artificial, self conscious attempt to use language that sounds "down-with-the-kids" which is quite cringy.

F. Askwith Hanif Abdurraqib Hannah George Hannah Tinti Harriet Muncaster Harry Collins Harry Woodgate Hassan Damluji Hayley Barker Heather Chavez Heinz Bude Helen Fields Helen Mortimer Henry Porter Hideo Yokoyama Hilary Wainwright Hilton Als Ho-Ling Wong Holly Black Holly Goldberg Sloan Holly Jackson Honor Head Huw Lewis Ian Black Ian Haydn Smith Ian Horley Ian McEwan Ijeoma Oluo Iliyana Stareva Imran Rashid India Desjardins Isaac Fitzsimons Isabelle Grey J. Such questions are the curse of transgender life – and are one of the reasons why Dawson has taken to describing herself as queer.

For my fifth of my 20BooksofSummer I made a small substitution, staying on-list but promoting this one over “Black and British” because it’s also Pride Month, so I wanted to get this one reviewed by the end of the month.