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Author:
Diana Goetsch
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
May 24, 2022
Diana Goetsch's This Body I Wore chronicles one woman's long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades.
What The Reviewers Say
Only once she’s established her plight as an adult does Goetsch reach back into her memories to color in her transition...This structural conceit helps Goetsch reframe her youth: We don’t first meet a boy and then a trans woman. By belatedly meeting the aloof 5-year-old who felt estranged from family, we’re armed with the necessary knowledge to better understand the author’s struggle.
By devoting so much space to her life pre-transition, Goetsch muddies the assumption that a clear delineation exists between life before transition and after. Goetsch’s journey is full of stops and starts, and it is neither as repressed nor as conclusive as we may imagine.
... moving.
Enthralling.
