Before I Had the Words (eBook)

On Being a Transgender Young Adult

Skylar Kergil (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
272 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-2308-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A transgender advocate’s candid memoir about reinvention and growth.

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At the beginning of his physical transition from female to male, then-seventeen-year-old Skylar Kergil posted his first video on YouTube. In the months and years that followed, he recorded weekly update videos about the physical and emotional changes he experienced. Skylars openness and positivity attracted thousands of viewers, who followed along as his voice deepened and his body changed shape. Through surgeries and recovery, highs and lows, from high school to college to the real world, Skylar welcomed others on his journey.Before I Had the Words is the story of what came before the videos and what happened behind the scenes. From early childhood memories to the changes and confusion brought by adolescence, Skylar reflects on coming of age while struggling to understand his gender. As humorous as it is heartbreaking and as informative as it is entertaining, this memoir provides an intimate look at the experience of transitioning from one gender to another. Skylar opens up about the long path to gaining his familys acceptance and to accepting himself, sharing stories along the way about smaller challenges like choosing a new name and learning to shave without eyebrow mishaps. Revealing entries from the authors personal journals as well as interviews with members of his family lend remarkable depth to Skylars story. A groundbreaking chronicle of change, loss, discovery, pain, and relief, Before I Had the Words brings new meaning to the phrase formative years.

Autor

Skylar Kergil is a transgender activist, YouTube personality, singer-songwriter, and artist. His videos, which offer an honest and thorough look at the process of gender transition, have educated, uplifted, and inspired thousands. Skylar is a recipient of the Trevor Project Youth Innovator Award and lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Körper / Sexualität
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: agender • aromantic • asexual • Asexuality • BI • Bisexual • books on being transgender • books on transitioning • Cisgender • Coming out • Cross-Dresser • Dysphoria • Equality • equal protection • Equal Rights • F2M • female to male • female-to-male • Fluid • FTM • f to m • gay • Gender • gender dysphoria • Gender expression • Gender identity • Gender Identity Disorder • gender non-comforming • Genderqueer • Gender Queer • GLBT • glbtq • Heterosexism • heterosexual • Homophobia • Lesbian • LGBT • LGBTQ • LGBTQIA • M2F • male to female • male-to-female • Misgender • misgendered • MTF • m to f • non-binary • Nonbinary • pansexual • pansexuality • pronouns • Queer • Sex • Sex Change • Sex reassignment surgery • Sexuality • Sexual orientation • STEALTH • they/them • top surgery • Trans • trans boy • transboy • trans folk • transfolk • Transgender • transgendered • Transgenderism • trans girl • transgirl • trans guy • transguy • Transition • transman • Trans Man • Transsexual • transsexuality • trans woman • transwoman
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-2308-0 / 1510723080
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-2308-5 / 9781510723085