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A review by averyjaye
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book feels important right now, especially as the conservatives are walking a handful of detransitioners with right wing sympathys onto national stages to spread propaganda and misinformation with the express purpose of removing trans people from every facet of public life.
This book approaches the subject of detransition with a deft and delicate touch, understanding it not through the binary lens of 'regret or no regret', but through the same multifaceted, nuanced self-reflection that people's transitions happen in.
I was reading this book while struggling with my own detransition, and whether or not I should go through with it. Detransition, Baby helped me understand that, whatever choice I made, it would be the right one for me and the time, and that I was free to move along the gender spectrum at any point in the future, and that would be okay too.
It's not the place you end up; Rather, the self-refection and self-actualization is the point of it all.
This book approaches the subject of detransition with a deft and delicate touch, understanding it not through the binary lens of 'regret or no regret', but through the same multifaceted, nuanced self-reflection that people's transitions happen in.
I was reading this book while struggling with my own detransition, and whether or not I should go through with it. Detransition, Baby helped me understand that, whatever choice I made, it would be the right one for me and the time, and that I was free to move along the gender spectrum at any point in the future, and that would be okay too.
It's not the place you end up; Rather, the self-refection and self-actualization is the point of it all.