Gender Queer

As a parent to a non-binary young person and sibling to a trans man, I needed this book! I'm proudly queer but still struggled to understand exactly what they were going through. This was the lightbulb moment for me - now I get it all. It made me look at my own questions around gender: how I feel about my body; the androgeny of many of my crushes; the freedom of acting male characters in the theatre; enjoying when people are unsure if I'm gay or straight, female or male. My ideal word was created by Iain M. Banks in Consider Phelebas where one can change gender and sexuality as they wish throughout their life - this stuck with me way beyond the plot of the novel. Perhaps I'm a little Gender Queer too?