Life can't be limited to just being transgender. I'd rather hear the questions "How are you?" and "What's up?" that everyone else is asked.
For science, transgenderism is no longer a mystery, and for psychiatry, it is not a "disease." But in society, people who have realized that they were born in a body that does not match who they still remain incomprehensible and alien.
Paula Szewczyk's book allows us to understand them, to get so close to them that we begin to hear their confessions and dramas, although they are expressed in whispers. We hear Staś, who before he moved out of the house, led a double life - among his friends he was himself, for his parents he remained a "daughter". We hear Kornel struggling with anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts - a boy who was sent to a ward for young women in a psychiatric hospital. We hear Tim trying not only to settle down with the body that is bothering him, but also with the fate of the migrant. He came to Poland because it is even more difficult for people like him to live in his native Belarus.
We also hear Clara, trying to overcome the fear bordering on obsession that someone will discover the change in the data in her ID and will never be a woman to those around her. We also hear many other voices, thanks to which each of the people appearing in the book becomes close to us.
The protagonists of "Foreign Bodies" are transgender people, but also their partners, partners, and parents. Those who still have not come to terms with the fact that their beloved son is not a boy at all, or those who accepted the child's identity easily, although parental support is not enough to make a child want to live.
But it is also a story full of love and faith that breaking the barrier of non-acceptance and misunderstanding is only a matter of time. Readers of Paula Szewczyk's book have a chance to cross this barrier now.
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