How Beautiful the Ordinary by Michael Cart

Well – many agree that research and reading are the keys to unlocking all understanding and inspiration, and as such that’s exactly what we’re here to recommend with this list of books about gender identity. But how to move past this, and ensure that morale and our sense of determination stay as high as possible? While the social tension over the subject might have a little longer left on the clock before it is resolved altogether, that doesn’t mean that we queer people ourselves cannot find peace.

It’s a true shame that people in our modern world still have to feel ashamed about themselves and their personal decisions all because other people decide that their tolerance – or their abstaining from hate and violence, really – is not worth the happiness of others. Regardless of whether they’re actually trans, non-binary, or otherwise, gender non-confirming, all of our readers have surely heard more than their fair contact with transphobia or general gender stigma. What is an intrinsically simple matter at its heart has spent many years being complicated by those who do not want to understand it or refuse to. Nowadays it seems that the false issues being raised with the subject are beyond number and that the actual steps that need to be taken are being lamented at every possible point. Only, of course, would only be possible to believe it if one hadn’t waded through the ever-expanding mess that is social media for the last decade or so, which is a challenge that most of us cannot say that we’ve passed in any capacity. One could easily assume that discussing gender identity isn’t much of a controversial subject and that it and its related matters are easily discussed with logic and acceptance in hand.

How Beautiful the Ordinary by Michael Cart