I got this as an arc on Netgalley and it will come out in November. Sometimes you read a book and you just feel it in your bones that this book is important and it will make a difference. This is that book. I'm sitting here digesting this story with a lump in my throat. It's part memoir part informational and 100% bare truth. I recommend this so much.

I really appreciated Sim Butler shared their story and their daughter's story. It was everything that I was looking for and enjoyed the overall concept of this. It was beautifully written and had that feel that I was looking for. It was a strong storyline and enjoyed the feel of this.

In this brave book, Sim Butler discusses his experience as the father of a now-adolescent transgender daughter living in the rural South. Longtime Alabamans, his family was rocked by the declaration of their older child at the age of 6 that although she appeared to be a boy, she was actually a girl (referred to as Kate in the book). Kate’s family was fully supportive of this new understanding of her identity, as was much in their community, but Butler still explains the many hurdles the family encountered in trying to give Kate the best possible life. The book later moves into the larger societal conflicts with regard to transgender rights that have been increasingly societally divisive; whether this book will actually change anyone’s mind is questionable, but it’s impossible to doubt the courage and earnestness of this one family, attempting to support this one child in living as what she understands to be her true self.