It’s always frustrated her that gender assignment is so arbitrary and that other people effectively try to decide it for us. It’s this confusion which makes her think back to how people always saw her as a boy, although she always knew she was a girl. The student doesn’t recognize her, and Boylan can’t decide how she feels about this.
She recognizes one of them as a student she taught when she was still male. She’s Not There opens with Boylan picking up student hitchhikers and giving them a ride. The book raises awareness of the discrimination transgender people face and the part society can all play in ending this inequality. A key theme is how illogical it is to use genitalia to ascribe gender to someone, as gender is much more complicated than this. The book conveys how difficult it is for a transgendered person to deny his or her true self for so long as well as how difficult it is to have the courage to be who he or she really is. She also wants readers to understand the difficulties people face when coming out to their loved ones and undergoing extensive and invasive procedures for gender reassignment. Boylan wants to show the internal struggle which all transgender people experience while growing up and coming to terms with who they really are. She now serves on the Maryland Policy Advisory Board of Gender Rights, and she regularly appears on the reality TV show I Am Cait. Boylan, originally called James, published many books under her birth name. She’s Not There is the first book published by a freely transgender American woman to become a bestseller, and it received widespread praise for its bravery and honesty. Published in 2003 by Broadway Books, it covers Boylan’s transition from man to woman and the difficulties she faces along the way. She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders is an LGBT memoir by Jennifer Finney Boylan.
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