This book doesnt have any content warnings. 'A compassionate, tender-hearted, and accessible book for anyone who might need a hand to hold as they walk through their own transition or the transition of a loved one' (Austin Chant, author of Peter Darling), Sorted demonstrates the power and beauty in being yourself, even when you're not sure who 'yourself' is. Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir), by Jackson Bird. From his first shot of testosterone to his eventual top surgery, Jackson lets you in on every part of his journey-taking the time to explain trans terminology and little-known facts about gender and identity along the way. Early childhood and education Bird grew up in Texas in the 1990s. He is the author of the 2020 memoir Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir). With warmth and wit, Jackson also recounts how he navigated the many obstacles and quirks of his transition-like figuring out how to have a chest binder delivered to his NYU dorm room and having an emotional breakdown at a Harry Potter fan convention. Jackson Bird is an American vlogger, speaker, LGBTQ advocate, and writer. Illuminated by journal entries spanning childhood to adolescence to today, he candidly recalls the challenges and loneliness he endured as he came to terms with both his gender and his bisexual identity. In this 'soulful and heartfelt coming-of-age story' (Jamia Wilson, director and publisher of the Feminist Press), Jackson chronicles the ups and downs of growing up gender confused. He barely remembers meeting anyone who was openly gay, let alone being taught that transgender people existed outside of punchlines. Growing up in Texas in the 1990s, he had no transgender role models. Jackson didn't share this thought with anyone because he didn't think he could share it with anyone. Assigned female at birth and raised as a girl, he often wondered if he should have been born a boy. When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as a transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection. An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how, through a childhood of gender mishaps and an awkward adolescence, he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man in his mid-twenties.

Sorted by Jackson Bird