She was an out lesbian in high school, and she figures she can stare down whatever gets thrown her way. To stop their mean and nasty comments Jess confronts them saying it’s her they’re talking about. It engages the reader from the outset: Jess Tucker, an out cisgender lesbian, stands in line to grab some food at college when she hears some girls sharing the rumor that there is a new trans girl somewhere in the dorms. Written from the points of view of both a lesbian ally and a trans woman, it encompasses the whole gamut of our LGBTQIA community. After all of the advances in gay & lesbian rights in the US over the past years it tackles the next frontier of LGBTQIA rights, the rights of trans women who have been marginalized and all too often vilified by the lesbian community as well as the heterosexual world. Just Girls is an insightful and thought-provoking book laced with a pinch of humor, lots of compassion and engaging characters. Let me start with a quick summary of Just Girls published by Bella Books and written by the award-winning author, Rachel Gold: brilliant, brilliant and all kinds of brilliant.
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