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Rethinking Normal

Katie Rain Hill

2014264 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2014
first published
  • 2014Simon & Schuster · 264 pages · ENGISBN 9781481418232
  • 2014Simon & Schuster, Limited · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9781481418256
  • 2015Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers · 264 pagesISBN 9781481418249
  • 2015Turtleback Books · 272 pagesISBN 9780606378598

A personal account by a college student who endured years of bullying and disapprobation describes how after numerous failed therapies she accepted her transgender status and began learning how to be a girl while pursuing surgical gender reassignment. Nineteen-year-old Katie Hill, a transgender girl, shares her personal journey of growing up as a boy and then undergoing gender reassignment during her teens. The plot contains pervasive profanity, sexual situations, and drug and alcohol use.

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