Featuring insights from well-known gender, feminist and trans activists including Rebecca Root, Laura Bates, Gemma Cairney, Anthony Anaxagorou, Hannah Witton, Alaska Thunderfuck and many more, The Gender Games is a frank, witty and powerful manifesto for a world in which everyone can truly be themselves.

Before our names, before we have likes and dislikes - before we, or anyone else, has any idea who we are. I was quite keen to find out more about Trans issues and being Trans, and I thought this sounded like it would be a great start point. The narrator is toneless and mechanical sounding, and gives the impression of a robot that is trying to follow instructions on how to be animated. She has published numerous fiction and non-fiction books for young adults, and won The Book People’s ‘Queen of Teen’ award in 2014 for her early titles Hollow Pike (2012) and Say Her Name (2013). Greene Jeremy Brown Jeremy Williams Jessamy Hawke Jess Butterworth Jessica Spengler Jessie James Jess Rose Jewell Parker Rhodes Jim Cullen Jim Smith Jin Yong Jion Sheibani J N Harris Joan Brady Joanna Nadin Joann Chaney Jo Cotterill Jodi Taylor Jo Dowdall Joe Abercrombie Joe Bennett Joe Earle Joe Guinan Joe Ide Joe McLaren John Ajvide Lindqvist John Brownjohn John C.It's quite funny and self-effacing but remember it is only one human's experience and doesn't reflect the story of everyone. It's also written in a very colloquial, humorous style that is very much not the norm for these kinds of books. Many of her books have been concerned with the social issues affecting young adults today, including Being a Boy (2013), on the subject of puberty, This Book is Gay (2014), on being young and LGBTQ+, and Mind Your Head (2016), a guide to mental health for young people. It wasn’t until she started interviewing people for This Book is Gay that she “began to join the dots”.

A. Paris Babita Sharma Barnaby Norman Becka Moor Becky Goddard-Hill Becky Masterman Bella Swift Ben Aaronovitch Ben Clanton Benedict Jacka Ben Grisdale Ben Hubbard Benjamin Percy Ben Mantle Ben Sanders Bernard Marr Beth Greenhough Beth Keane Beth Lincoln Beth Macy Bimmy Talib Bimpe Alliu Black Cultural Archives Bong Dazo Bradley Schmidt Brendan Kearney Brenna Nation Britta Teckentrup Brittney Morris Bronwyn Parry Bruce Hood Bruno Mangyoku Bryan Appleyard C. I don't agree with her views on women's magazines offering good things as I think they are still far too focused on celeb culture, stereotypes, diets, image etc. L. Westgate Sacha Batthyany Sally Urwin Sam Friedman Sam Harper Sam Peters Sam Pizzigati Sam Ripley Sana Takeda Sandra Hempel Sarah Coyle Sarah Daykin Sarah Driver Sarah Epstein Sarah Goodreau Sarah Hagger-Holt Sarah Hilary Sarah Loulendo Sarah McIntyre Sarah Moore Fitzgerald Sarah Mussi Sarah Papworth Sarah Pinborough Sarah R. While working as a teacher, she began writing books aimed at young adults and became successful enough to leave her job. I also hope that those of us who are cis find these sorts of books too and we can understand more about the journey so we don't demean or undermine people's lived experiences.

This book is a memoir of her experience being brought up as a boy and living as a gay man before realising she was trans, as well as a wider discussion about how gender norms fuck us all over. This book delivers a very good part-chatty memoir and part-introduction to gender and trans issues within society. But this book, like many of Dawson’s others, both fiction and non-fiction, is aimed expressly at young adults, de-mystifying the way issues of gender and sexuality are distorted by the adult discourses of the dominant culture.