Growing Up Trans in Our Own Words

Lindsay Herriot, Kate Fry
- Editors
(Teen Nonfiction - 306.7608 Gro)

What does it mean to be young and transgender today? Written by trans youth from ages 11–18, this collection illustrates the trans experience through stories, essays, art, and poetry. They tell of the challenges—big and small—of being a young trans person. It is also a toolkit for what understanding, acceptance, and support for the trans community looks like.


YA LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction

  • A Queer History of the United States for Young People


  • A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities


  • The LGBTQ+ History Book


  • The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures


  • From Gay to Z


  • This Book is Gay


  • Spinning


  • Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American


  • The Queer Film Guide


  • Queer as All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me


  • Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir


  • Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American


  • Queer as All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me


  • I'm a Wild Seed


  • Be Gay, Do Comics!: Queer History, Memoir, and Satire from The Nib


  • How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual


  • Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir


  • A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities


  • A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns


  • A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns


  • A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality


  • I'm a Wild Seed


  • How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual


  • What's the T?


  • Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality


  • Here and Queer: A Queer Girl's Guide to Life


  • Spinning


  • The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures


  • Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride, and Protest in the Fight for Queer Rights


  • Gender Queer: A Memoir


  • A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality


  • Growing Up Trans in Our Own Words


  • 365 Gays of the Year (Plus 1 for a Leap Year): Discover LGBTQ+ History One Day at a Time


  • Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality


  • Be Gay, Do Comics!: Queer History, Memoir, and Satire from The Nib


  • Gender Queer: A Memoir


  • Pride: The LGBTQ+ Rights Movement: A Photographic Journey


  • Queer There and Everywhere: 27 People Who Changed the World