American Teenager Author Reading and Q&A

From an award-winning journalist comes a vivid and moving portrait of trans and nonbinary teenagers across the country.

There is no shortage of media coverage sensationalizing the fight over how trans kids should be allowed to live, but what is incredibly rare in this conversation are the voices of those at the heart of this debate: transgender and gender non-conforming youth themselves. To write their groundbreaking book, award-winning journalist Nico Lang spent a yearshadowing seven families of trans and gender non-confirming teens across the country. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with young people, their families, and the members of their diverse communities, Lang paints a stunning portrait of what it means to be a trans kid in the US today.