Society as a whole is becoming much more open about trans and LGBT issues and teen/YA lit is definitely leading the way in terms of representing alternative sexualities and gender experiences. But, argues site member Tomboy007, it needs to be more sensitive to those seeking to transcend the gender binary
Why does it matter whether you’re a boy or a girl? But it does. It really, really matters. People want to know which one you are.
Alyssa Brugman wrote the YA novel Alex As Well about an androgynous teenager who explores the possibility of breaking through the two binary genders which we as a society are so often pushed to box ourselves neatly into: “male” and “female”, as well as the polarisation enforced by the stereotypes often associated with them. Brugman’s character Alex often expresses the need for the use of female pronouns (“she”, “her” and “herself”) and explains that she considers herself to be far more female than male in her gender identity – but never completely commits to identifying as one gender or the other:
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