Chromosomal sex refers to our biological sex. Gregorio embeds in the narrative information to illuminate the ways people tend to conflate LGTB.

Indeed, as I talked about in my review of Tree Girlbooks can lift the veil of ignorance and teach readers by making accessible new concepts, anticipating questions and misconceptions, and by creating a bit of distance (and perspective) between the reader and the subject. Gregorio is a doctor, which adds quite a bit of credibility to this book’s subject. When a doctor confirms her diagnosis, whispers of self-doubt invade her private thoughts until sharing her diagnosis with a friend initiates public shaming and discrimination. Kristin, however, saw the signs as she matured they were biological and personal.

In None of the Above, Kristin Lattimer’s AIS was invisible to her father, her friends, and even her boyfriend. She questions how she (and her whole school) understand what it means to be a girl. Gregorio is about an 18 year old girl with AIS (Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome), when one’s chromosome make-up does not match the gender to which one identifies or intersex. And as a middle school teacher for over a decade, I see teenage girls and boys navigating a world of gender “shoulds” and trying on a spectrum of gender markers, which is beautiful and painful (at times) to witness.

On top of that, I grew up with seven sisters ranging in size, shape, interest, and certainly attitude and three brothers who had their own ideas about what a girl “should” be. I grew up in the 80s surrounded by images like Cindy Crawford and Pretty in Pink , which made figuring out what sort of girl I was “supposed” to be rather complicated. Donovan, PhD (s/her) on JNone of the Above by I.W.

None of the above by iw gregorio