The purpose of the book is to disseminate knowledge about gender identity and gender expression in order to contribute to greater openness and humanity in all of us. It happens through very personal life stories. Some talk about the difficult time in primary school, others talk about what it is like to become a mother and later in life to become a man.
They talk about grief and love, what it feels like to be a boy when the girl's body reaches puberty with breasts and menstruation. Maybe you think that it can't be that hard to be a boy born as a girl. You just have to dress masculine?
The brave people you can read about in this book can tell that it takes far more before the pieces fall into place and one can become confident in one's true gender identity - confident in one's own expression. Marion Arntzen established Stensveen Resource Centre, a private low-threshold service for transgender people, in 1996. In 2009, a TV production company in collaboration with Arntzen developed the TV series "Jenter på Toten", built on the stories of people from the Stensveen Resource Center network. These stories were taken a step further in the book.
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