Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey

Jeremy Ivester is a transgender man. Thirty years ago, his parents welcomed him into the world as what they thought was their daughter. As a child, he preferred the toys and games our society views as masculine. He kept his hair short and wore boys clothing. They called him a tomboy. Thats what he called himself.

By high school, when he showed no interest in flirting, his parents thought he might be lesbian. At twenty, he wondered if he was asexual. At twenty-three, he surgically removed his breasts. A year later, he began taking the hormones that would lower his voice and give him a beardand he announced his new name and pronouns.

Never a Girl, Always a Boy is Jeremys journey from childhood through coming out as transgender and eventually emerging as an advocate for the transgender community. This is not only Jeremys story but also that of his family, told from multiple perspectivesthose of the siblings who struggled to understand the brother they once saw as a sister, and of the parents who ultimately joined him in the battle against discrimination. This is a story of acceptance in a world not quite ready to accept. See more