Gender Queer: A Memoir

I love this book as a cisgendered straight man. I hope it is helpful to a lot of people in increasing their understanding of themselves and empathy to others.

Loved it and learned so much. Thank you for sharing you experience.

I read it before because I had gotten some severe misinformation about it. Research. I rather liked it and found out half the people who've been complaining about it never read it. Go read it. I bought two other used copies to leave in little free libraries far away from schools. You don't watch your kids and they gain the ability to sympathize with people who are different from them that's on you.

As an elderly heterosexual male, I found Gender Queer to be a worthwhile exploration of the author's development and struggle with their own identity and sexuality. It has very little to do with me, except for the generalized fact that we all question our nature and place in the world, in one way or another, during adolescence.Even so, I am reminded of the quotation from Terence, "I am human, and I consider nothing human to be alien to me."The book does not come to any profound conclusions, but is a reminder that there are many ways of being human, and that we should be kind to one another.The idea that there is anything pornographic about this book is baffling and risible.

Why did it take me so long to read this, it is so good it resonates with part of me I never thought it would as someone who identifies male and is male by birth. It's just so well done they put their emotions on the page and they're plainly there and easily accessible. I know part of why it took me so long to read is I get nervous about books that everyone proclaims are amazing because I build up how they should be and how I feel it will be and then I'm let down. Only this time I wasn't it was everything I thought it would be it was the author putting their emotions onto the page and just letting it all be there.