I Am Chris
Book description
When your life falls apart, couldn’t you just be someone else? Especially if that someone else was you all along anyway?
Seventeen-year-old Chrissy Taylor is orphaned to a stepmama who squandered their sizable inheritance on drinking and drugging. Now, with their ranch lost, they squat in a run-down, rented trailer…
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This book made me wonder who else I may know who is Trans but passes. Again I was overwhelmed by the hard life and unexpected trauma so many Trans individuals go through. It warmed my heart that Chris was determined to keep his family together and provide for his little sister.
I found the workings of bronco bucking fascinating, and the writing made me feel like I was there experiencing it. I never was a girly girl, but even in my best butch days I don’t think I could pass for a male. Once I began reading this little book…
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