Julia Kaye My Life in Transition

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The follow-up to the critically acclaimed autobiographical comics collection Super Late Bloomer, documentingtransgender artist Julia Kaye's life post-transition.My Life in Transitionis a story that's not often toldabout trans lives: what happensbeyondthe early days of transition.Both deeply personal and widely relatable, this collectionillustrates six months of Julias life as an out trans womanabout the beauty and pain of love and heartbreak, struggling to find support from bio family and the importance of chosen family, moments of dysphoria and misgendering, learning to lean on friends in times of need, and finding peace in the fact that life keeps moving forward.After the nerve-wracking, anxiety-ridden early transition period has ended and the hormones have done their thing, this book shows how you can be trans and simplyexistin society. You can be trans and have a successful future. You can be trans and have a normal life full of ups and downs. In our current political and social climate, this hopeful, accessible narrative about trans lives is both entertaining and vital.