Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

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She could not tell her parents why she was being bullied because she felt unable to come out to them. There are a fair number of mainstream trans memoirs out there now and this one goes over a lot of the expected areas—growing up, sex, transitioning, mental health—whilst also getting into things like the fashion industry and social media algorithms. In 2019 she was appointed LGBT+ Editor at Dazed Beauty, profiling some of the most ground-breaking queer talent of the moment.

and in combination with this text, I couldn't help but think about how important it is to educate children and young people about sex, relationships, identifying abusive/grooming/etc. As mentioned, there are some heavy topics that do include uncomfortable topics such as rape, drug use, grooming, child pronography, homophobia, transphobia, etc. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition—a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are. PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR:‘Bergdorf is proof that speaking up for what you believe in can provoke real change’ Vogue‘A phenomenon’ Owen Jones, Guardian‘A powerful and unstoppable new force .The next paragraph literally jumps forward with "I got through university and graduated with a 2:1".

Through the story of one woman’s extraordinary mission to live with authenticity, Transitional shows us how to heal, how to build a stronger community and how to evolve as a society out of shame and into pride. In September 2021 Munroe launches her Spotify Original podcast titled “The Way We Are” which will see her take the interviewer role, speaking to talent including Jameela Jamil, Mabel, Olly Alexander and Zara Larsson.In this life-affirming and heartfelt book, the activist and model draws parallels between society and her own experiences – told through the lens of adolescence, sexuality, gender, relationships, identity and race – to bring us closer to a shared consciousness. In terms of actual reading experience I’d probably give it 4, as the structure hadn’t quite decided whether to be chronological or thematic, which made it repetitive at times. In this confident and erudite memoir Munroe Bergdorf has written not only a moving story of her own life as a biracial trans woman in the UK she has also provided an excellent introduction to the experience of trans and BIPOC people in love, in work and in society. That same year, she was awarded Changemaker of the Year at the 2018 Cosmopolitan Awards, the following year she was awarded Campaigner of the Year at the annual LGBT+ Awards.

And so I was excited to see she had a book available in the US (much of her work is in the UK), especially since it is Pride Month.L’Oréal sacked her (though they rehired her in 2020), other brands dropped her and she received horrific abuse on social media. As a model and an outspoken activist, who was hired and fired by L’Oréal in the space of a week in 2017 over comments she made in response to violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Bergdorf said she felt that, until now, “my intelligence has been undermined, and I’ve been underestimated a lot in a lot of different instances”.

For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation. This week, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of British trans teen Brianna Ghey, the UK media turned the focus once more into a sickening dispute ­– this time on the gendering of trans people’s death certificates. To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. But Bergdorf’s deal was actually struck last year, when she presented an 80,000-word proposal for the first time.

I found Transitional to be a really interesting read, but the implementation could have been refined somewhat. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition – a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are.