Author Alex Myers Challenges Gender Norms in New Novel

The Bookshelf

Nov 8, 20198:09Government & Organizations

Novelist Alex Myers came out as transgender in the mid-90s, when society's understanding of what it means to be transgender was less clear than it is today.

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