There was no magic button that would transform my body into one equal to assigned male at birth body. But I knew that biologically I never could be. I wanted to be a boy when I was young, I wanted to be a boy when I was older. She didn’t know that biology, gender assigned at birth is not necessarily your “real” gender. 14 or 15-year-old me didn’t know what was going on. Now yes, that was based purely on biology and my gender assigned at birth but I’ve only learnt that FTM people “exist” around a year ago so I’m telling this as it was. I wasn’t accepted among guys because I was a girl. I was in the ‘I’m not same as other girls” which…honestly, was later shown to be true but not in the “I’m not like other girls and that makes me better than them” sense. Which was a reason I have always avoided them. I grew up believing Nicholas Sparks belongs to romance and that romance novels are for women. So here, I want to talk to you about non-cishet representation in romances. I am a super-white person living in super-white environment and I am not qualified to recommend or comment on the rep there. While I can say I am glad there are more diverse romances in terms of not only including white people, it is not my place to comment on them.
I am focusing mostly on romance here because this is the genre I am staying in most of the time. I have been thinking a lot about diversity in romance books.
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