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Format:	Book
Author:	Tobia, Jacob, 1991- author
Title:	Sissy : a coming-of-gender story / Jacob Tobia.
Publisher, Date:	New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2019] ©2019
Summary:	From the moment a doctor in Cary, North Carolina put "male" on Jacob Tobia's birth certificate, everything went wrong. A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above.
Subjects:	Tobia, Jacob, 1991- Gender-nonconforming people -- United States -- Biography Transgender people Sexual minorities -- United States
Genre:	Autobiographies
LCCN:	2018041589
ISBN:	9780735218826 (hardcover)
System Availability:	3
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	1702932
Call Number:	305.30973
Course Reserves:	0
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Through revisiting their childhood and calling out the stereotypes that each of us have faced, Jacob Tobia invites us to rethink what we know about gender and offers a blueprint for a world free from gender-based trauma. Sissy takes you on a gender odyssey you won't soon forget. Writing with the fierce honesty, wildly irreverent humour, and wrenching vulnerability that have made them a media sensation, Jacob shatters the long-held notion that people are easily sortable into men and women and guarantees that you'll never think about gender - both other people's and your own - the same way again.

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Tobia, who uses ""they"" and ""their"" as pronouns, is a gifted storyteller. Their fascinating story begins with life as a feminine little boy, whose best friends were girls, to graduation summa cum laude from Duke as a proud trans person. Along the way, it's a classic coming-of-age story that doubles as a quest to discover one's gender identity. Sissy, they write, was the first gender identity I ever had, the first word the world ever gave me. Gay (a term Tobia detests) arrives later as they come out of the closet and begin to reject a binary identity. Other words follow as they mature: transgender, genderqueer, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, etc. Words are obviously important in considering gender, but so is incident. A transformative moment comes when, as a teenager, Tobia buys a pair of women's shoes with high heels, no less and ultimately wears them to church. Surprisingly for a gay person they write, Church was my saving grace. Nevertheless, their relationship with their church becomes uneasy at one significant point before they are able to return to its grace. The most interesting part of the story, however, concerns Tobia's years at Duke, where, they note, they were a Big Queen on Campus. These were also the years when they ultimately found their gender as a trans person. Always thoughtful, Tobia writes extremely well, with insight, lucidity, occasional anger, and, when things get too serious, wit. The result is, hands down, one of the best trans narratives available; it deserves a place in every library.--Michael Cart Copyright 2019 Booklist

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Table of Contents

	Introduction	p. 1
	A Quick Manifesto	p. 11
Part I	Kiddo
Chapter 1	The Girls Next Door	p. 23
Chapter 2	Nerds and Wizards and Jesus, Oh My!	p. 50
Chapter 3	Inharmonious Hormones	p. 66
Part II	Teenage Dreams
Chapter 4	A Very Dramatic (First) Coming Out	p. 101
Chapter 5	In My Own Two Shoes, On My Own Two Feet	p. 134
Part III	Big Queen on Campus
Chapter 6	A Gothic Wonderland, a Major Letdown	p. 177
Chapter 7	Beloved Token	p. 213
Chapter 8	Sissy, Femme, Queer, and Proud	p. 252
Chapter 9	Dear Mom and Dad	p. 300
	Epilogue Notes to Self	p. 307
	Acknowledgments	p. 317

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