It’s boring to pick apart the instances in which someone does a poor job of portraying trans experiences, but I do feel invested in the larger discussion
Last month, Australian author Craig Silvey released his first book in a decade, Honeybee. It’s about a young person named Victoria, identified throughout much of the book by the name Sam and by male pronouns. Amid a backdrop of intense and traumatic circumstances in their life, Victoria begins to articulate to themselves that they are transgender. Their experiences of gender dysphoria, alongside the tensions in their relationship to often toxic masculinity, underscore much of Honeybee’s narrative.
Silvey, who you may recall wrote Jasper Jones, is a cis man, and perhaps not best placed to tell this story. He says he did extensive research and consulted with trans people, and that his intentions in writing it were to be a force for good. I don’t doubt any of that. But that doesn’t make the book’s tropes or trauma-mining any less jarring to read as a trans person.
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