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A review by marziesreads
Transphobia: Deal with It and Be a Gender Transcender by j wallace skelton, Nick Johnson
5.0
I received this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.
This book is a good middle school read about transgender individuals, respecting their rights, their feelings, their name and their pronouns. It teaches the reader how to identify transphobia and how to handle or battle against it. While some people have suggested it's too Canadian (Is that a thing? Is it like being too polite?) I really don't think children in the proper age range (middle school) will have any trouble with the semantics of washrooms versus bathrooms. This book is well suited to both individual and group reading.
I do want to point out that one of the quizzes has what I believe is a reversal of answers. On page 17 of the print copy (19 in the galley) question 8 seems to have the correct responses (put up vs. speak up) for options b and c reversed. Doing nothing is clearly not speaking up.
This book is a good middle school read about transgender individuals, respecting their rights, their feelings, their name and their pronouns. It teaches the reader how to identify transphobia and how to handle or battle against it. While some people have suggested it's too Canadian (Is that a thing? Is it like being too polite?) I really don't think children in the proper age range (middle school) will have any trouble with the semantics of washrooms versus bathrooms. This book is well suited to both individual and group reading.
I do want to point out that one of the quizzes has what I believe is a reversal of answers. On page 17 of the print copy (19 in the galley) question 8 seems to have the correct responses (put up vs. speak up) for options b and c reversed. Doing nothing is clearly not speaking up.