Gracefully Grayson

I majorly question a non-trans author's intents when the word “transgender” or any variation of it is absent from a book about a trans person. At no point in the story is it ever said that there are other people like the narrator (other trans girls). I also find it extremely disheartening that more than half of the reviews on Goodreads for this book refer to the narrator as “he” and as a boy and they think that it's fine to do that to a trans girl.

If this book were meant to help trans kids, it would have had the word transgender in it, or some mention of the existence of transgender people that makes it clear that the narrator isn't the only trans person in the world. This is a book written so that non-trans folks can feel good about themselves for sympathizing with a sad trans girl, while still calling her “he” and a boy.