But they can also be oppressive and limiting. Labels can be important to understanding who you are, finding a community of people with similar experiences and gaining access to resources you might need. With candor and humor, Jackson recalls the challenges he faced while trying to sort out his gender and sexuality and worrying about how to interact with the world. He had no transgender role models, and barely remembers meeting anyone who was openly gay before college. Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir) by Jackson Bird Tiller Press, 2019 The audiobook published by Simon & Schuster A udio is narrated by the author himself, and is also excellent.Īssigned female at birth and raised as a girl growing up in conservative Texas in the 1990’s, Jackson often wondered if he should have been born a boy.
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