and all the steps you and the people around you need to take in order to get where you need to be. “I wish I had realised to speak up then,” they said this summer. As they did in their groundbreaking novel Melissa, in Rick, award-winning author Alex Gino explores what it means to search for your own place in the world. Scholastic, after acquiring the story, advised taking the word “girl” off the cover when publishing because “there would be some people who wouldn’t give the book to a boy if it had the word girl on it” Gino, “stunned” to be published at all, agreed. Gino explained that the original title came about because while they were writing the novel, they “jokingly” called it Girl George, playing on the singer Boy George.
As if it’s not more important than seeing who’s really there, scars and all.” She may have been named George at birth in a boys body, but she knows shes really a girl. We are told that we will mar something special, as though looking pleasant to others is more important than being ourselves. MELISSA is about a transgender fourth grader. But here’s the thing: so many transgender people have been told that we are beautiful/handsome as a reason not to transition, myself included. I want to be clear – it isn’t,” Gino said at the time. “The title of my book made it seem as though it is OK to use an old name for a person when they have provided you with a different name that works better for them.
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