Book description
Four-time Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox shares her journey as a transgender woman in Hollywood, confronting childhood trauma, shame, gender identity, her transition, body image issues, her search for romantic love, deep-seated feelings of unworthiness, and ultimately, healing.
Laverne Cox is a powerhouse in the fight for transgender rights and representation-but…
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1 author picked Transcendent as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Just wow. This book should be standard reading in every high school. Again, what I love about memoirs is standing witness to their story. And for somone like Laverne, and the horriffic abuse she endured since a young age and her entire life, just heartbreaking. Any ignorant person reading this book would come away with the understanding that being trans is NOT A CHOICE. Who in the world would choose a life of persecution and abuse just to be who they feel they really are? No one. It was so hard to hear but we have to witness this and…
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