My Brother's Name is Jessica

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I’ve never been to any of those places, I’ve never done any of those things and nobody ever criticised me for it.

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The setting is supposedly present-day London but, were it not for the reference to Brexit, I would have guessed it was at least a decade ago before everyone with a public profile who dared to even question transgender ideology was afraid of losing their livelihoods and reputations. We see none of her interior world, none of her struggle, and it’s not her strength or her perseverance that wins out by the end of the book.The exploration of why this particular young man might believe he’s a young woman, if it takes place at all, does so during sessions with a therapist that readers aren’t privy to.

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The only glimpses we get of Jessica’s take on all of this are pithy, generic quotes that seem designed to encapsulate the “trans struggle” (“I’ve always felt this way. I am tired of my life and the lives of my community being put up for the debate: which bathrooms should we use? Boyne initially responded to some of the complaints following publication of the Irish Times column, but has now deleted his Twitter account.He had attended court in support of a friend who had been abused by McClean, although he himself hadn’t; in fact, the teacher had always encouraged him in his literary ambitions and, when Boyne’s debut novel came out in 2000, he sent him a copy. I highly recommend looking through the two of them, as they are relatively short, but provide a lot of information, and shed a lot of light into how problematic the foundation of the story is. And this is what they use social media for, whether it’s politics, whether it’s trans issues, whether it’s climate change, whatever it is; they pick a subject, and they just go for it hell for leather. Of course, we can analyse everything with the perspective of death of the author, in which the author is removed from book.