A girlhood : letter to my transgender daughter
(2022)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/HAYS,C

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir MEMOIR/HAYS,C Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[Durham, N.C.] : Blair, [2022]
DESCRIPTION

274 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781949467901, 1949467902 :, 1949467902, 9781949467901
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Place of publication from publisher's website

"A parent's love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is. One ordinary day, a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families knocked on the Hays family's door to investigate an anonymous complaint about the upbringing of their transgender child. It was this knock, this threat, that began the family's journey out of the Bible Belt but never far from the hate and fear resting at the nation's core. Self-aware and intimate, A Girlhood asks us all to love better, not just for the sake of Hays's child but for children everywhere enduring injustice and prejudice just as they begin to understand themselves. A Girlhood is a call to action, an ode to community, a plea for empathy, a hope for a better future. A Girlhood is a love letter to a child who has always known exactly who she is-and who is waiting for the rest of the world to catch up."--