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140:, spent a decade as a print reporter in the LGBT community and is currently a marketing strategist and public speaker. It is the first young adult novel written from a transgender girl's point of view. In the story, Emily (born Christopher) begins to come out during her junior year of high school, first to her girlfriend Claire and then, with the help of an understanding therapist, to her family. 245: 27: 143:
Lydia Harris describes the novel as "extraordinarily poignant" and says that "the chapters chronicling Claire's struggles with religious, emotional and social mores are worth the price of this novel alone."
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is a 2012 novel by Rachel Gold. Gold, who has a Bachelor of Arts in English and Religious Studies from
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Rachel Gold
Young adult
Bella Books
ISBN
978-1594932830
Macalester College
Hamline University
Transgender and transsexual fiction
"Is Rachel Gold's "Being Emily" the first young adult novel to tell the story of a transgender girl from her perspective?"


"'Being Emily' by Rachel Gold"
"Saying Something: Trans Characters in YA Fiction"
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lesbian
gay
bisexual
transgender
queer
stub
expanding it
See guidelines for writing about novels
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2010s LGBT novels
2012 American novels

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