A Trans Popstar's World: When Life Dreams and Being Transgender Collide: A Novel
By Talaine Mare
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This book is about a trans perspective on various social issues trans people often face. It is written for both trans people and other people interested in learning about trans lives. It is based on the author's own experiences as well as the many stories of real life trans people she has come across over many years.
There were three aims in the writing of this book: to provide a picture of what trans lives are really like to interested non-trans people, to stimulate discussion in the trans community on some important issues we face, and to hopefully inspire some trans people to think about these issues.
Of course, not every trans person wants to be a pop star (actually the title is supposed to be tongue in cheek). However, the issues dealt with in the book are equally applicable to trans people wanting to pursue their dreams in a wide variety of life settings.
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A Trans Popstar's World - Talaine Mare
A Trans Popstar's World
When Life Dreams and Being Transgender Collide
A novel by Talaine Mare
Copyright (c) 2014 Talaine Mare. All rights reserved.
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This book is about a trans perspective on various social issues trans people often face. It is written for both trans people and other people interested in learning about trans lives. It is based on the author's own experiences as well as the many stories of real life trans people she has come across over many years.
There were three aims in the writing of this book: to provide a picture of what trans lives are really like to interested non-trans people, to stimulate discussion in the trans community on some important issues we face, and to hopefully inspire some trans people to think about these issues.
Of course, not every trans person wants to be a pop star (actually the title is supposed to be tongue in cheek). However, the issues dealt with in the book are equally applicable to trans people wanting to pursue their dreams in a wide variety of life settings.
It is important to note that this book does not deal with some aspects of trans lives, including the medical aspects. The author believes that this is appropriate for two reasons. Firstly, this book is not written from a medical perspective and it is inappropriate to include 'unprofessional' medical advice. Secondly, there are many resources out there dealing with those aspects already. In fact, there is often an over-emphasis on the medical aspects of transition, distracting from the social issues of trans lives. This book hopes to provide a purely social side narrative of a trans life, something really too rare out there.
Although this novel is inspired by the experiences of the author, besides the main character (Katie Greenlight), who is partially based on the author, no other character is based on any real life person, and any resemblance is co-incidental. In particular, characters associated with transgenderism and characters associated with the quarter life crisis are based on general ideas of those experiences, and are not in any way related to the actual life of any specific real life individual. The events in the book are also wholly fictional, including all conversations and all material 'found on the internet', for example the stories about living in stealth.
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