6/20/2023 0 Comments I am jazz picture book![]() ![]() “Pretending I was a boy felt like telling a lie.” Her parents’ efforts to understand prompt them to meet with a doctor who introduces the word “transgender,” which enables the family’s powerful affirmation: “We understand now. ![]() They’d always thought of me as a boy.” Jazz recalls her pain when compelled to wear “boy clothes” in public. I was born this way!” Although the realistic watercolor illustrations consistently display only happy faces in these beginning pages, the text recounts her family’s struggle to understand her early-childhood assertion of femininity: “At first my family was confused. ![]() But as Jazz goes on to explain, she has “a girl brain but a boy body. An autobiographical picture book describes trans-youth activist Jazz Jennings’ story of embracing and asserting her transgender identity.īoth the title and the opening text proclaims, “I am Jazz!” The book goes on to detail Jazz’s various interests and tastes, which follow traditionally feminine gender norms. ![]()
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