A review by ela_lee_
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
3.0
A very quick read. Ironically, this book hardly feels like it’s about someone who is trans at times, it’s just about an average, pre-teen girl and her life at school and home amongst family and friends. As Jazzy acknowledges several times, wow, what great parents she us. How fortunate to be a transwoman born into an intelligent, accepting, well-educated family. (I think her dad is a lawyer and her mother studied some branch of counseling.) It is because of them knowing how to navigate the rules and politics of the world that they were able to get so far and go about Jazzy’s transition in the most thoughtful of ways.
Only complaint is that Jazzy is definitely a little self-centered, overconfident, and annoying at times. But what preteen girl isn’t? I wouldn’t say this book was super profound, but it’s a realistic look into the everyday life of Jazzy and gets you to think a bit more about the common struggles of trans kids.
Only complaint is that Jazzy is definitely a little self-centered, overconfident, and annoying at times. But what preteen girl isn’t? I wouldn’t say this book was super profound, but it’s a realistic look into the everyday life of Jazzy and gets you to think a bit more about the common struggles of trans kids.