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Soft pick because this is a frustrating, sometimes painful read. It's a great illustration of the phrase “don't be your child's first bully,“ though the mom certainly isn't the worst; she doesn't put her child in conversion camp or pray over him or kick him out, just refuses to accept his name and identity. Just.

It's certainly a valid story and she does learn and grow, becoming a “SuperAlly!“ in the end. Includes a letter from the son.

You fear that Alex will be marginalized, but the first and foremost marginalization is family rejection.

I thought this was insightful into an experience that I don‘t often relate to or have grace for, the parent (in this case a mother) of a trans child struggling with their child‘s transition. I just don‘t often have the bandwidth for it. My partner is trans and I‘ve gone through enough nonsense in my own life. To be honest, Anne, the mother here, was extremely frustrating to me. However… ⬇ï¸�

Élodie doesn't shy away from showing her struggles to be a supportive parent when her late teens early20s child comes out as trans. Opening the book with information about gender, identity, and sexuality does a lot to show how far she has come since then. This is a meaningful read, and I highly recommend it for anyone who is having cognitive dissonance in supporting trans folks in their own lives. #LGBTQ #Transgender #Comic #NonfictionComic

Breaking out of assigned gender norms and just being yourself is extremely freeing�� even for cis folks. As a teen and early 20s young woman, I hated the idea of doing girl things simply because I was female, and sometimes went out of my way to not do them. Eventually I stopped gendering things I was doing and just let myself do what I wanted to, and stopped avoiding experiences I wanted to have.

Two thirds of the way through this graphic memoir, and the mother (PoV character) is still misgendering and deadnaming her son. Ugh.

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