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are there any good books with transgender protagonists
this was the only ok one ive found
im serious im just looking for something i can relate to not some sjw stuff please don't start an argument

>> No.6333513

>>6331179
lot of comics

>> No.6333520
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>> No.6333527

Good idea OP 4chan is defeinitely the best place to ask for this kind of stuff LOL

>> No.6333837

>>6333527

/lit/ tends to be relatively open towards feminism and generally left-wing philosophies. I mean, many threads about politics become shittstorms of shitposts that the janitors clean up by deleting the threads

>>6333520
>not some sjw stuff

>> No.6333901

I guess it was such a taboo for such a long time that there's very little fiction about it. Consider that good old homosexuality barely started being something you could write about in the 50's, if you were a woman and gave them a bad end.

>> No.6333915

>>6333520
>neautral

>> No.6334348

>>6333901
This coupled with the fact that since trans as a topic has become more mainstream than it ever has, any discussion about it requires a mastery of tightrope walking, since anything you write can and will be misconstrued as offensive, misrepresentative, and grounded in "cis gendered reappropriation."

We couldn't write about Trans before because it was considered degenerate, and we can't write about it now because we could be seen as intolerant.

>> No.6334355

>>6334348
>degenerate
Stop using this meme you fucking retard. IT would have been considered immoral, not "degenerate".

>> No.6334366

>>6334348
HA
Palahniuck has a book with every single horrible stereotype you could think of and no one cares about. I'm not mad at him since he clearly was trying to be shocking and didn't think it through, but if it had been the same with black people he would had been ruined.

>>6334355
he's using the word correctly, dumbass

>> No.6334391

>>6334366
>Palahniuck has a book with every single horrible stereotype you could think of and no one cares about.

Because he's a hack who no one in the literary world ever took seriously to begin with.

>> No.6334407

>>6334391
Even more reason to hate on him, but the book passed without any pain or glory. He did Choke right after, I think, and that got a film adaptation.

>> No.6334447

There's not very much. It kind of sucks. I'm a transsexual and I write exclusively trans characters because that's the perspective I'm familiar with and can get behind. Very few people get published and very few people write trans characters. On top of that, publishers don't want to print fringe-ier stuff when they can print the hundredth young adult story about a co-ed group of teenagers in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

>> No.6334448

>>6334447
>LOL I WRITE FAN FICTION

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>>6334447
If you have anything to share I'd like to read it

>> No.6334459

>>6334447

Why not write the hundred and first young adult story about a co-ed group of teenagers in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, get published, be recognised by your readers as an accomplished trans author, and then maybe use your success to convince people to publish a trans-perspective story?

>> No.6334462

>>6334448
No, worse. I write romance stories with terrible self-insert characters.
>>6334449
I'm on a cell phone on a public bus now. If I remember after dinner and this thread is still up, I'll post some.

>> No.6334469

>>6334459
I don't like young adult stories (save for a few good ones). I have been published locally, but only under pseudonyms.

>> No.6334478

>>6334469
>I don't like young adult stories

Do you like money?

>> No.6334509

>>6334478
I'm making enough money to live comfortably and pay my medical expenses, so why should I waste my time writing things I don't want to write when I can finally live my life the way I want to live it?

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>>6334462
I'd sincerely like it. If you prefer it I can post my mail.

>> No.6334530

>>6331179
Orlando by Virginia Woolf

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all you need to know to detect them is here

>> No.6336330

bumpity bump