![]() ![]() But for me that same liberation was daunting-I wanted a map. It’s easy to look at the current place of trans women in society and think that we’re witnessing a moment of something liberating. Think about it: Divorced cis women must start over at a point in adulthood when they’re supposed to be established they must give up on the illusions that led to failure they must avoid bitterness and self-pity and they frequently even change their names to match the new self they must narrativize into being. While working on the book, I found a model for how to live as a trans woman in the writings of divorced cis women. I DEDICATED MY FIRST NOVEL, Detransition, Baby, to divorced cis women. Peters is also the author of the novellas The Masker and Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones (both 2016). ![]() Her first novel, Detransition, Baby, was published by One World in January. Torrey Peters is a writer who splits her time between Brooklyn, New York, and rural Vermont. ![]()
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